Today I finalized the translation of PGM V, 304-369. It turned out that there are a number of seemingly smaller errors in previous translations but…
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Behind the Scenes: PGM V, 96-172 – Stêlê of Ieu – Some Scribal Details
I’ve been working on this ritual instruction today and look at this: A beautiful correction of the popular divine name “Ablanathanalba”. This name occurs in…
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Video: Ancient Egyptian Beliefs: Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead
Ancient Egyptian beliefs and mythology are preserved in the so-called funerary texts. These writings were created for the deceased to guide and protect them in…
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The Symbolism in Morgan Le Fay (Frederick Sandys, 1864)
This oil painting was created in 1863 by Frederick Sandys. It shows Morgan Le Fay, a sorceress of Arthurian legend, depicted by the artist as…
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Soknopaiou Nesos – Religious center of the god Soknopaios
Soknopaiou Nesos was the religious center of the god Soknopaios, an oracular and healing god in the shape of a crocodile with a falcon head.…
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The “Treasures of Soknopaios”
The religious centre of the ancient Egyptian deity Soknopaios was in Soknopaiou Nesos, a town in the Fayum oasis. His temple and the cult area…
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Chronological Order of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts: Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead
All of these funerary texts contain spells to protect the deceased in the afterlife. I made a more detailed video about these three funerary texts,…
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Iamblichus about the two human souls
Quoted from De Mysteriis, VIII, 6 You claim, then, that the majority of the Egyptians make what is in our power depend upon the movement…
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Zodiacal Signs and the Assigned Body-parts in Babylonian Astrology
The correspondence of body parts and their diseases with the influences of certain zodiac signs and planets is called “Melothesia“. This tablet is the earliest…
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What Magic Is This? – Ancient Magical Artefacts
I had the great pleasure and honour to be a guest on Douglas Batchelor‘s awesome podcast “What Magic Is This?” Two hours talking about Ancient…
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