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Coffin Texts spell 1130

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Book of the Dead cap. 175

64

"after ... millions of years ... Ruins will be cities and vice versa".

64

"millions of millions of years ... I [I,TM] will ... destroy all that I have made; the earth shall return to the Abyss (Nun) ... as in its original state".

64

"the All-Lord ... ‘made their hearts to cease forgetting the West ... ." ... The deceased will see the horizon, sit in front of it, judge ... the rich".

66

for the dead, I,TM "promises ‘spiritual existence (3h^w) in place of water, air, and love-making, contentment (h.tpw) in place of bread and beer’. ... Then the man says ‘... my face will see the face of the Lord of All.’ "

BD of Ptahmose (late Nineteenth Dynasty) in Krakow."

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text

121

34

Pankrates (teacher of Ariognotos) "lived underground for twenty-three years in crypts whilst being trained in magic by Isis."

122

"

"I saw him ... riding on crocodiles".

35

"Whenever we came to an inn, he would take the wooden bar from the door ..., dress it in a cloak, utter some incantation over it and make it walk. It would seem human to everyone else. It would go off and pump water, buy provisions and prepare them". [(p. 134) daimon-assistant (paredros) "is given the ability ... both to fetch water ... and to buy provisions." (Greek Magical Papyri 1:101)] {self-operating implements likewise appear in Bon magical practice}

132

27

The ghost of Demainete came to speak to her husband Eukrates while he was reading Platon’s book about the soul. [(p. 133) magical book in "the demotic Egyptian tale of prince Khamwas or Setne"]

129

"

"We were still speaking when an accursed little dog, one of the Maltese breed, barked underneath the couch, and she disappeared at the bark."

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author

text

125

Thessalos of Tralles

sec. 23 "He [chief priest] produced the god [Asklepios] through a series of secret names".

sec. 28 Asklepios said, "The divine spirit is composed of the smallest of particles {on the mental plane} and pervades all existence and in particular those places in relation to which the stellar influences fall upon the structure of the universe."

126

Bolos of Mendes

"in the temple building a pillar split open of its own accord. ... Ostanes [i.e. the son of the great Ostanes] said that his father’s books were deposited in it. He brought them out to plain sight." {cf. Bon recoveries of hidden books from temple-pillars : Bon is of Tajik origin, and Ostanes was Persian}

p. 176

[animals from which omens may be taken, according to a fragmentary demotic papyrus mentioned in A Companion to Demotic Studies, p. 108] "mice, shrew-mice, one unknown animal, cows, donkeys, baboons (?), horses, scorpions, owls and ants are attested in this order on a well-assembled sequence of columns." Isolated fragments of this papyrus shew omens from "snakes ... lamps and spiders, ... cats, dogs, ravens and pigeons."

p. 178

the one unidentified animal is kps^t3.t : "It can jump on a man or woman ... . It ... can catch fish and mice".

p. 183

[numerics] " ‘number seven : it stands for Isis,’ ‘number eight : it stands for Horus’, and ‘number ten : it stands for Neferhotep’ " (papyrus Berlin 23701).

"papyrus Carlsberg 585 : There the number seven is Horus, not number eight which is Shu instead."

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dreamer

dream

195

Tawe^

"was walking along the street, and counted nine houses."

Ptolemaios

"saw Tawe^ speaking well ... and ... Taous laughing".

"

"Taous sits on the stairs and jokes".

"

"They counted out for me 100 drachmas, but for Tawe^ ... bronze staters".

"

"called upon the great god Amun to come to me from the north with his two consorts, until finally he came. ... Amun seizes the cow ...; he thrusts his hand into her body and brings forth a bull."

196

Apollonios

"walking along the avenue of Serapis with a woman called Tawe^ ... I talk to her saying, ‘Tawe^, ... I seduced you ...?’ She replied, ‘It happens that ... I have become a whore (?).’ "

"

"my elder brother ... is weeping before me".

"

"I find a man who has come as a rebel to the place of asylum. What he said was, ‘The goddess Sekhmet told me to touch the lamp in the Serapeum ... .’ "

"

"I saw a woman who was being abused. I gave her some coppers (h.mt.w ...)".

197

a twin

"in Memphis ... the water had flooded up to the statue of Wahibre. My mother was standing on the bank. I cast off my clothes and threw them into the sky. I swam toward her, to the eastern side."

200

Ptolemaios

"eyes were as it were sealed; but suddenly I opened by eyes and saw the twins in the school ... . ... I saw one of them running off to a nearby house, where she squatted down and urinated ... . ... I prayed to Serapis and Isis".

"

"I was in Alexandria, on top of a high tower. ... An old woman ... said to me, ‘... I will take you to the guardian-spirit Knephis, so that you may worship him.’ ... I looked up suddenly, and saw Knephis."

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knots

250

"In the Magical Papyrus Leiden I 348 ... spell 8 Seth heals Horus from his headache by tying a string with seven knots around his left foot".

251

"in Papyrus Berlin P 3027 ... A spell that makes sure that a woman has milk to feed her child takes three knots to be put on the throat of Horus (her child)."

"As a cure for a scorpion sting pTurin 135.8-136.1 and oDeM 1048 invoke the seven daughters of re ... to make seven knots in their seven jdnw ... . It is perhaps no coincidence that the tail of a scorpion ... consists of seven segments."

"Incantation 28 from the London Medical Papyrus ... should be said over four knots that should be made in ... the hair of a donkey".

"Papyrus Chester Beatty VII contains an anti-venom spell that has to be recited over ... material in which seven knots have been knotted.

A Graeco-Roman magical papyrus prescribes that the magician has to tie 365 knots in black thread ... (Pinch, [Magic in Ancient Egypt] 1994, 83)."