Prayer, magic, and the stars

Prayer, magic, and the stars

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pp. 57-68 – 3. Marvin Meyer : "The Prayer of Mary in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels". [Coptic]

p.	*prayer*	*comparative*
59	"I am Mariham, ... let the iron dissolve before me".	-HAM is city of the Zuzi^m, viz. for the Ziz bird, whose s^amir can cut iron
61	Bathuriel on the Merkabah : "Marmarruniel, ... Marmam who struck the sea"	MARMARidai of Marmarike-Kurenai:ke; -UNI (a Norse deity, and a pratyeka-buddha); MoRMoN

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pp. 69-82 -- 4. Gideon Bohak : "Notes on the Interpretation of Voces Magicae".

(p. 75 is a magical charm from Cambria-Wales)

p.	*word*	*comparative*
75	"laamoth"	*LAhAM ‘wound’ : LihAM ‘prudent; munificent, liberal’ (LA-L* 4:131b)**
	-"barouz"	*BARZ ‘respectable and intelligent; honest’ (LA-L* 1:107a)**
	"akkaramarachamari"	-MAR- ‘saint’ -H.Mo^R ‘jackass’
81	"ablanathanalba"	Irish Ogham alphabet : B-L-N-...

LA-L = Lexicon Arabico-Latinum. Beirut, 1975.

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pp. 125-136 -- 7. Peter Struck : "Viscera and the Divine".

terms

p.	*term*
128	apo-mimesis ‘imitation’
	peri-odos ‘circuit’
131	dunamis ‘effect’
132	noos ‘intention’

p. 128 dreams as symptomatic of ailments, according to On Regimen

*dream of __*	*is symptom of __*
"a star plunging into the sea."	"disease of the belly"
"A star falling into the earth"	"tumors in the flesh."
"a rough surface of the earth"	"impure flesh"
"high or low rivers"	"high or low blood levels."

p. 128 microcosm-macrocosm correspondence, according to On Regimen

*in to microcosm, the __*	*is an imitation of the __ in the macrocosm*
belly	sea
flesh	earth
"the body’s inner circuit"	"the circuit of the moon"
the body’s "outer circuit"	the circuit "of the stars."

p. 133 the triple soul, according to the Timaios 69-71

*soul*	*its location*
immortal : reason	head
courage	chest
appetitive	abdomen
mirror reflecting reasoning	liver

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pp. 137-153 – 8. Jacco Dieleman : "Stars and the Egyptian Priesthood in the Graeco-Roman Period".

p. 153 PDM xiv 93-114 (PGM xiv a 1-110)

*name*	*comparative*
"NARZAZOUZAN"	*-ZAZZa ‘to beat with a mild hand’ (LA-L* 2:236b)**
"BARZABOUZATH’	*-ZABaZA ‘short, endowed with small stature’ (LA-L* 2:223a)**
"ZEBOURTHANE^N" the archangel	*ZABUR ‘written’ (LA-L* 2:222a)**

{the shift from -zabouZ- to –zebouR- may suggest an <arabi^ writing-pun}

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pp. 223-239 – 13. Radcliffe G. Edmonds III : "At the Seizure of the Moon".

goddess Phusis (‘Nature’)

p. 232	"theurgists are warned not to invoke the image of Phusis or to look upon her. She is the mother of daimones that inhabit the material world, the evil spirits who work harm upon the human race."
p. 232, fn. 37	Chaldaean Oracles 101 : "Do not invoke the self-manifesting image of Physis". Chaldaean Oracles 102 : " Do not look upon Physis! For her name is like Fate".
p. 232, fn. 38	*"Synesius Hymn 5* (2) 52-53 describes Physis as mother of daimones."**

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THE MAGIC IN HISTORY SERIES, 8 = Noegel, Walker, and Wheeler : Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient World and Late Antiquity. PA St U Pr, U Park, 2003.