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    The Greek Magical Papyri (Latin: Papyri Graecae Magicae, abbreviated PGM) is the name given by scholars to a body of papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, written...
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  • the eye of Shemihaza" "for a dog to bite someone". Greek, as a subset of the Greek Magical Papyri catalogued by Karl Preisendanz and others. Hebrew, as...
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    Abraxas (category Articles containing Biblical Greek-language text)
    Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri. It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on that account...
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    Magic in the Greco-Roman world (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    the Greek papyri were Hellenistic in outlook. Hellenization, however, also includes the Egyptianizing of Greek religious traditions. The Greek magical papyri...
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    Helios (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    "The Religious and Philosophical Assimilations of Helios in the Greek Magical Papyri." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 55: 391–413. Gelling, P. and Davidson...
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    found in Thebes in the 19th century and published as part of the Greek Magical Papyri. No first version of this work has been established, but early versions...
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    Ancient Greece, University of California Press, 1999, pp. 208–209. Greek Magical Papyri/PGM IV 2441-2621. Betz, Hans Dieter, ' The Greek Magical Papyri in...
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    antiquity. Hans Dieter Betz, "Introduction to the Greek Magical Papyri," The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells (University...
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    1077) is a Greek magical manuscript written in papyrus from the 3rd century CE. This is one of that are called Greek Magical Papyri. The papyri had been...
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    Sorcery (goetia) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    His claims are not, however, supported by modern historians. The Greek Magical Papyri, nearly a millennium after the fall of Mesopotamia, preserve the...
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  • figures List of Greek mythological creatures Betz, Hans (1996). The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226044477....
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    Voces magicae (category Ancient Greek religion)
    authoritative true name of certain gods. As an example: in the Greek Magical Papyri, the first spell of the first papyrus intended to summon a daimon...
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    hattum’â. The syncretic magical practice of late antiquity drew on Hebraic elements, and spells from the Greek Magical Papyri evoke and attempt to command...
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    rituals of which they form a part.: 102–103  A large number of magical papyri, in Greek, Coptic, and Demotic, have been recovered and translated. They...
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    Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells, Volume 1. University of Chicago Press. Frederic G. Kenyon, Palaeography of Greek papyri...
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    Demotic (Egyptian) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    to bottom, left to right, or right to left. Parts of the Demotic Greek Magical Papyri were written with a cypher script. Early Demotic (often referred...
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  • and Demons by Leonard Ashley list Sariel as a fallen angel. The Greek Magical Papyri represents him as a deity to be called upon in rites using the "Souriel"...
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  • The "Mithras Liturgy" is a text from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris, part of the Greek Magical Papyri, numbered PGM IV.475–829. The modern name by which...
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  • Barbarous name (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    names that were corrupted by transcription into Greek. They appear throughout the Greek Magical Papyri, a notable example being "ablanathanalba". Iamblichus...
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    heaven, Diana on earth, and Proserpina in hell. Spells and hymns in Greek magical papyri refer to the goddess (called Hecate, Persephone, and Selene, among...
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  • (2012). The Magical Treatise of Solomon, Or Hygromanteia. Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 9780738731407. Betz, Hans (1996). The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation...
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    Golden Fleece (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece (Ancient Greek: Χρυσόμαλλον δέρας, romanized: Khrysómallon déras, lit. 'Golden-haired pelt') is the fleece of the...
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    independently translated both into Arabic and Latin. The Greek Magical Papyri are a modern collection of papyri dating from various periods between the second century...
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  • Moly (herb) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Moly (Greek: μῶλυ, [mɔːly]) is a magical herb mentioned in book 10 of Homer's Odyssey. In Homer's Odyssey, Hermes gave his herb to Odysseus to protect...
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    invoked in Graeco-Roman magical texts dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE, most notably in the Greek Magical Papyri, under the names Iao...
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    Angel (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
    The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-04447-7. Entries: "Introduction to the Greek Magical Papyri" and...
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    In Greek mythology, Nyx (/nɪks/ NIX; Ancient Greek: Νύξ Nýx, [nýks], "Night") is the goddess and personification of the night. In Hesiod's Theogony, she...
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    there is scattered evidence—for example, a couple of spells in the Greek Magical Papyri—which attests to the existence of individual women in Roman-ruled...
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    Caduceus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    -siəs/; Latin: cādūceus, from Greek: κηρύκειον kērū́keion "herald's wand, or staff") is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by...
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  • ideas may bear distant relationships to the Book of Abramelin, the Greek Magical Papyri (particularly "The Sword of Dardanus"), Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, Sepher...
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