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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 mostly in ancient Greek (but also in Old Coptic, Demotic, etc.), which each contain a number of magical spells, formulae, hymns, and rituals.
Page from the Greek Magical Papyri, a grimoire of antiquity. A grimoire (also known as a "book of spells", "magic book", or a "spellbook") is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, deities ...
Grimoires are fundamentally books that will supposedly grant their users magical powers, which date back to ancient times. In several of these books, rituals designed to help summon spirits are found. [1]
Pompeian wall painting depicting a hermaphrodite sitting, left hand raised towards an old satyr approaching from behind; a maenad or bacchant brings a love potion.. Magic in the Greco-Roman world – that is, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the other cultures with which they interacted, especially ancient Egypt – comprises supernatural practices undertaken by individuals, often privately ...
The Magical Treatise of Solomon, [1] [2] also known as the Hygromanteia (Ancient Greek: Ὑγρομαντεία) [a] or Solomonikê (Greek: Σολομωνική), [4] [b] is a collection of late Byzantine-era grimoires written in medieval Greek. A pseudepigraphon, the book purports to contain Solomon's instructions to his son Rehoboam on ...
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The "Mithras Liturgy" is a text from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris, part of the Greek Magical Papyri, [1] numbered PGM IV.475–829. [2]Albrecht Dieterich, the first translator of the text in 1903, coined the name it is known by today, [3] [4] based on the invocation of Helios Mithras (Ἥλιοϲ Μίθραϲ) as the god who will provide the initiate with a revelation of immortality. [5]
Jambres summoning the "shade" of Jannes from Hell with the aid of a book of magic as illustrated in Cotton MS Tiberius B V/1. The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres (also called the Book of Jannes and Jambres) is a Greek text composed between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, probably in Roman Egypt.