This is a lecture I have been wanting to do for a long time. “Voces magicae” is not an ancient term that was used in…
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Short Video: Making and Use of Ancient Magical Artefacts
This video provides a brief introduction into the making and use of ancient magical artefacts as transmitted in the Egyptian and Greek magical papyris. To…
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Short Video: Ancient Magic In Everyday Life
Did you know that ancient magic played an important role in people’s lives? That ancient magic was particularly used to solve everyday problems and challenges?…
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Video: Ancient Magic Inks
In ancient magic and ritual practice special inks were used to create powerful inscriptions. These inks and their applications are preserved in ancient Egyptian and…
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Behind the Scenes: Reconstructing the artefact in PGM V, 304-369 and Scribal Details
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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