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Sorcerer's Son is the first novel in "The Book of Elementals" series by Phyllis Eisenstein, first published as a mass-market paperback in 1979 by Del Rey Books... The novel has been reprinted several times since, the last in 2002 in both hardcover and trade paperback, as part of a two-novel omnibus edition from Meisha Merlin Publishing, which includes the second novel, The Crystal Palace.
4Q246, also known as the Son of God Text or the Aramaic Apocalypse, is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran which is notable for an early messianic mention of a son of God. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The text is an Aramaic language fragment first acquired in 1958 from cave 4 at Qumran, and the major debate on this fragment has been on the identity of ...
Such spells were believed to cause a person to fall in love with another person, restore love which had faded, or cause a male sexual partner to be able to sustain an erection when he had previously been unable. [41] Other spells were used to reconcile a man with his patron deity or to reconcile a wife with a husband who had been neglecting her ...
Even though the brothers are twins, they have two different fathers. This phenomenon is a very common interpretation of twin births across different mythological cultures. [2] Castor's father is Tyndareus, the king of Sparta (hence the mortal form). [4] Pollux is the son of Zeus (demigod).
Mictlantecuhtli (Aztec mythology), the chief death god; lord of the Underworld [29] Tlaloc (Aztec mythology), water god and minor death god; ruler of Tlalocan, a separate underworld for those who died from drowning; Xipe Totec (Aztec mythology), hero god, death god; inventor of warfare and master of plagues
Some of the magical artefacts were of great power, including the Palantíri or Stones of Seeing, but by far the most powerful was the One Ring, made by the Dark Lord Sauron and embodying much of his former power. Scholars have written that Tolkien felt the need for a magical cosmology to counter modernity's war against mystery and magic.
The earliest known mention of the god appears in the so-called Cannibal Hymn within the Pyramid Texts. As the butcher of other gods, he is said to extract their entrails and offer them to the deceased king in order to absorb their magical powers. This process was intended to help the deceased king achieve immortality and regain vitality. [5]
Hebrew translation of the Christian Jesus, King of the Jews formula, [15] This magical formula represents the passing of life to death and Resurrection, Used in many rituals including the Rose Cross and the Ritual of the Hexagram by both O.T.O, A∴A∴, and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. [16]