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... as a liberator from fate derived not from a Greek context, but from Egyptian religious conceptions ... Era. The same language also figures in the magical papyri, indicating that the motif of the ‘pole god’ or cosmic ...

... achieved by extensive use of the Greek magical papyri. This is the same template, and the same method, that Smith ...

... Elements of the Lesser Hekhaloth and the Magical Papyri', it's still at arm's length, for others to research. ... and immortalization, achieved by extensive use of the Greek magical papyri. This is the same template, and the ...

... example, we may have some limited data for a Greek cult: some incriptions dedicated to it, some magical text papyri invoking it, some literary sources a century later describing ...

... example, we may have some limited data for a Greek cult: some incriptions dedicated to it, some magical text papyri invoking it, some literary sources a century later describing ...

... sexual purity, many divination rituals in the Greek magical papyri require the boy to be naked and dressed in white linen. This ...

... death and rebirth is evident in certain magical texts in which the participant is required ... throwing Jello at the wall ... Hans Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells [1986], ...

... sexual purity, many divination rituals in the Greek magical papyri require the boy to be naked and dressed in white linen. This ...

... I've also found some Greek that's not LXX, and it's on a scroll even, ... also be found in secular writings as well as magical papyri: https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/chicago-demotic-dictionary ...

... of Alexander ("Agatho Daimon" to the Greeks) subsumed local veneration of this Great ... profusely in coins, Greek inscriptions and papyri of the Imperial age. His origin in Alexandria ... among which are those that considered the magical powers of the serpent images, which not ...