By Robert K. Ritner
To this point, no accomplished remedy of Egyptian magic has occupied with the perform of the magician. either common stories and textual courses have emphasised in its place the spiritual parts within the contents of recited spells, whereas the accompanying directions, with their vignettes and lists of fabrics, tools, and formality activities, remained uninvestigated. This research represents the 1st severe exam of such magical suggestions, revealing their common visual appeal and pivotal importance for all Egyptian spiritual practices from the earliest sessions in the course of the Coptic period, influencing in addition the Greco-Egyptian magical papyri. the writer additionally discusses the pagan-Egyptian impression on previous and New testomony practices and within the lives of the Coptic wilderness Fathers. The 3rd version is a reprinting of the second one, which incorporated minor corrections from the unique variation. This quantity is an important revisionist method of historic Egyptian magic.
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For an overview of differing interpretations of this passage, see Barta 1970, pp. 78-91. Barta considers this ritual, not artistic, magic. For 4iw, see Pap. Prisse, 1. 56 For this text, see ("The Instructions of Ptahhotep''): 'There is no artist who has command of his n. 82, denies this link Zta 1956, p. 20 and Barta 1970, p. 82. Borghouts 1980, cols. " But, see below, p. 38. 1149, 143. Gardiner 1932, p. 44, "Ilorus and Seth," (Pap. Chester Beatty I) col. 6/4-5. The text is cited in Borghouts 1980, cot.
On your face, enemy of Re! " 99 In a Berlin hymn which assigns the role of creator to Ptah, Heka correspondingly appears as the ba of that deity: Everyone trembles when his ba comes into being, Magic (tik) who has power over the gods. 10 0 In later periods this relationship is expressed differently, with Heka designated as the ka-spirit ("double, vital essence") of Re. Thus, in Papyrus BM 10188 (col. 27/5-6), the sun god declares: k ? '0 2 On the walls of the Greco-Roman temples of Dendera, Edfu, Kom Ombo, and Philae, Heka appears as one of the fourteen kas of Re.
44. J. Z. Smith 1978, p. 192, following Brown 1970 and Morton Smith 1973, pp. 220-37. All of these theories ultimately derive from Roman law as extrapolated by Mauss 1972 and Durkheim 1965. pp. 57ff. 45. Aune 1980, p. 1515. The definition of social deviance is adopted by Aune from Merton and Nisbet 197 1, p. 824. TOWARD A DEFINITION OF MAGIC 13 neither is correct. However magic may be defined, in Egypt the practice was in itself quite legal. Only one trial for sorcery is preserved from ancient Egypt, involving the use of wax figures in a plot against the throne, but the trial record is careful to state that the books of magic used by the prisoners came from the king's own collection.