Mesopotamian Magic

Mesopotamian Magic PDF

Author: I. Tzvi Abusch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9789056930332

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This volume, edited by Tzvi Zbusch and Karel van der Toorn, contains the papers delivered at the first international conference on Mesopotamian magic held under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in June 1995. It is the first collective volume dedicated to the study of this topic. It aims at serving as a bench-mark and provides analytic and innovative but also sythetic and programmatic essays. Magical texts, forms, and traditions from the Mesopotamian cultural worlds of the third millennium BCE through the first millennium CE, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well as in art, are examined.

Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals

Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals PDF

Author: Tzvi Abusch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-04-18

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 9004318550

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Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and prescriptions prescribe ceremonies and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction and critical editions of this body of texts.

Mesopotamian Witchcraft

Mesopotamian Witchcraft PDF

Author: Tzvi Abusch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-07-26

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9004453393

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This volume is about the history, literature, ritual, and thought associated with ancient Mesopotamian witchcraft. With chapters on the changing forms and roles of witchcraft beliefs, the ritual function, form, and development of the Maqlû text (the most important ancient work on the subject), and the meaning of the Maqlû ceremony, as well as the ideology of the final version of the text. The volume significantly contributes to our understanding of the Maqlû text, and the reconstruction of the development of thought about witchcraft and magic in Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic

Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic PDF

Author: Strahil V. Panayotov

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-10-22

Total Pages: 968

ISBN-13: 9004368086

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Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller offers 34 brand-new text editions and analytical studies concerned with diverse healing traditions and practices in Ancient Western Asia.

Mesopotamian Witchcraft

Mesopotamian Witchcraft PDF

Author: I. Tzvi Abusch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9789004123878

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This volume is about the history, literature, ritual, and thought associated with ancient Mesopotamian witchcraft. With chapters on the changing forms and roles of witchcraft beliefs, the ritual function, form, and development of the Maqlû text (the most important ancient work on the subject), and the meaning of the Maqlû ceremony, as well as the ideology of the final version of the text. The volume significantly contributes to our understanding of the Maqlû text, and the reconstruction of the development of thought about witchcraft and magic in Mesopotamia.

Legitimising Magic

Legitimising Magic PDF

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9004687416

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As magic is a powerful means to influence the natural world and human beings, and is deeply connected to the divine sphere, persons using it are in constant need to justify its use. The ambivalence of magic to serve both well-wishing and ill-wishing aims puts the practitioners ever at risk. This volume illuminates the strategies adopted to legitimise the practice of magic and analyses how these justifications are phrased and formulated in cuneiform texts, thereby revealing the underlying principles and unexplained axioms of using magic in the Ancient Near East.

Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia

Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia PDF

Author: JoAnn Scurlock

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13: 9047404173

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This work explores the interaction between magic and medicine in ancient Mesopotamia, as applied specifically to ghosts. Included is a discussion of sin and natural causes in Mesopotamian medicine. Additionally, it transliterates and translates 352 prescriptions designed to cure psychological and physical ailments thought to be caused by ghosts.

Mesopotamian Magic

Mesopotamian Magic PDF

Author: Joshua Free

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9781468027938

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[Mardukite Heritage Edition: A reissue of an otherwise cycled out-of-print edition kept available for review and posterity as part of the developmental legacy of the Mardukite Research Organization, founded 2008.] A master compilation of mystical exploration into the heart of the ancient Mesopotamian Mysteries, this complete practical companion to the Mardukite "Necronomicon Anunnaki Cycle" illuminates the revolutionary teachings and source materials of the Modern Sumerian-Babylonian-Anunnaki Tradition of the Mardukite Chamberlains (Ordo Nabu Maerdechai), edited by Joshua Free, the presiding Nabu of the organization since its inception. MESOPOTAMIAN MAGIC is a highly innovative and accessible anthology of the complete "Year-3" research and development of the Mardukite Research Organization including three volumes ("Magan Magic," "Maqlu Magic" and "Beyond the Ishtar Gate") in a single incredible compilation! In MAGAN MAGIC: THE ENUMA ELIS (Liber-E) amazing cuneiform tablet records of magick and creation are drawn together to reconstruct the most antiquated, powerful and legendary "magician's primer" ever known to the minds of men --formulated by the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians! MAQLU MAGIC (Liber-M) reveals an authentic "Necronomicon Spellbook" of advanced Mesopotamian Magick drawn from the sands of Babylonia forming a complete Anunnaki ('alien sky god') "grimoire" used by magicians and priests for thousands of years to combat in wizards' duels, reverse the effects of evil spells and curses, banish disease and nightmares, and conjure the protection and blessings of the gods! Finally, BEYOND THE ISHTAR GATE (Liber C) is concerned with the 'other side' of the tradition, parts that have been concealed and yet also what made the tradition famous - mainly, the connection to the "Other," that which we have been programmed to perceive as 'separate' from this reality.

Healing Magic and Evil Demons

Healing Magic and Evil Demons PDF

Author: Markham J. Geller

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-12-14

Total Pages: 735

ISBN-13: 1614513090

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This book brings together ancient manuscripts of the large compendium of Mesopotamian exorcistic incantations known as Udug.hul (Utukku Lemnutu), directed against evil demons, ghosts, gods, and other demonic malefactors within the Mesopotamian view of the world.It allows for a more accurate appraisal of variants arising from a text tradition spread over more than two millennia and from many ancient libraries.

Sources of Evil

Sources of Evil PDF

Author: Greta Van Buylaere

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9004373349

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Sources of Evil is a collection of thirteen essays on the knowledge employed by Mesopotamian healing experts to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil.