Antient Aiguptian Magical Texts, 1-69 [cited by page & (section)]
Contents (pp. x-xi)
section #s |
subject-matter |
1-5 |
charms & spells |
6-8 |
nocturnal spectres |
9-11 |
evil influences |
13-21 |
epagomenal days |
22-27 |
various diseases |
28-29 |
other ailments |
30-33 |
haimorrhages |
34-36 |
burns |
37-45 |
headaches |
46-49 |
bellyaches |
50-57 |
bodyaches |
58 |
blindness |
59 |
semen of daimon |
60-64 |
gynaikology |
65-70 |
protective to children |
71-81 |
spells accompanying administration of medicine |
82-83 |
dangerous animals |
84-123 |
against scorpions |
124-135 |
against crocodiles |
136-143 |
against snakes |
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p. 1 (1) love-charm used by a man to charm a woman
Hail to you, O! 7 H.T-H.R goddesses "who are clothed in wrappings of red linen!" "let (the woman) ... come after me like a cow ... ." |
If they fail to make her come after me, I will set fire to Boursiris. |
p. 2 (5) against i,r-t bi,n-t (‘evil eye’)
deity |
possessing __ |
SH^M-t |
arrow |
DH.WTI, |
h.k3 (‘magic’) |
3S-t |
curse |
Nephthys |
punishment |
H.R |
lance |
p. 3 (6) md3,t (‘book’) for dr (‘chasing away’) snd (‘terror’) which cometh in the night
O! 3h^ (‘male spirit’) & 3h^.t (‘female spirit’)! Ye raise your : |
face |
b3 |
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i,rw (‘shapes’) |
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h3.t ("corpse-like apparitions") |
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h.k3 (magic’) |
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Ye will see; ye will perceive : |
Lord-of-all |
NTYw (‘Those-who-are’) |
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I,TM |
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WDyt mistress of fear |
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HRD (‘Child’) |
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NB M3<t (‘Lord of Righteousness’) |
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WNMW (‘Devourer’) made by Sia |
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"The earth is afire, the sky is afire, men and gods are afire ... . Beware of the flame that has burst forth from the horizon!" |
pp. 4-5 (9) wd-nsw (‘royal decree’) of H^nty
p. |
death of __ |
4 |
head |
eyen |
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belly |
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i,3-t (‘backbone’) |
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<HW (daimon) |
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<H^W-t (female daimon) |
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entering of R< (sunrise) |
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moment |
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5 |
crocodile |
lion |
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? (animal) |
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h.f3w (‘snake’) |
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dl (‘scorpion’) |
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horns |
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h3-t (‘corpse’) |
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bronze |
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being buried |
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not being buried |
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falling off a wall |
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<g3 (‘drowning’) |
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s^w-t (‘shadow’) |
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loins |
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lungs |
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spleen |
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liver |
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i,3-t (‘backbone’) |
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vertebrae |
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teeth |
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<s^<s^ (‘gullet’) |
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arms |
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t3w (‘breath’) |
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h.3ty (‘thorax’) |
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i,b (‘heart’) |
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ph.wy-t (‘the behind’) |
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sycamore |
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k3k3-fruit |
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any rush |
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any herb |
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"a male who has made himself into a woman (and vice versa)" |
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biting by a man |
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biting by any lion |
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sherd |
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qh. (‘hewn stone’) |
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mh.3w (‘swelling’) |
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mr (‘illness’) |
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hrp (‘going under’) |
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bone of bird |
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bone of fish |
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hastening |
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b3q-t (‘throat’) |
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feet |
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hands |
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any h.wi, (‘striking’) |
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any stabbing |
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any stone |
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falling |
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any h^t (‘cudgel’) |
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any g3w ('oppression') |
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<d3 ('palate') |
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b3q-t ('throat') |
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starving |
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thirsting |
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s^di, ('breast-feeding') |
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sh^d ('being turned upside down') |
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h^nmt-t ('whore') |
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h3i, m i,wr-t ('praemature giving birth') |
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nni, ('weariness') |
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going[-to]-one's k3 |
p. 10 (11) protection of the house
hath s^ni, ('conjured') the __ |
and is __ |
chink |
female falcon |
bolts |
PTH. |
hole |
NHB-K3W |
i,mnw (hiding-place') |
whose name is hidden |
cross-timbers |
master of mysteries |
p. 12 (13) the last day of the year
deity |
of __ / sojourning in __ |
SH^M-t |
aS^RW |
S^NTI,-t |
Bousiris |
R< |
heaven |
S^SMT-t |
PWN-t |
H.R |
Bhd-t |
SBK |
MI,N-t ('marsh') |
YR-aS^RW |
-- |
+Eye-of-R< |
'Isle of Fire' |
H.R of 3H^-w ('glories') |
oP-t |
H.R Under-His-Moringa-Tree |
S^N-t |
+Glorious-Eye-of-H.R = Mistress of Wine |
-- |
H^NWM |
'House of 30' |
p. 14 (14) warding-off t3w ('breath') of i,3d-t ('plague')
O! Flame-in-his-face, do speak unto the Foremost One of the House of H.MWS-t ('Birth-genius'). |
O! NH^B-t "who lifted up the" dwi, "unto the sky for father, "tie the two plumes [of vulture] closely around me." |
"sprout of" SH^M-t, [place thyself] "behind my body". {cf. "get thee behind me, S`at.an"!} |
p. 16 (18)
to hinder taking away |
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of my __ |
for __ |
h.3ty (breast) |
SH^M-t |
liver |
WSI,R |
not to allow __ |
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entry of ass on account of NFRI, |
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bsbs ('jumping-up') of green-breasted goose |
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[fire-]spewing by B3ST-t |
p. 18 (22)
SH3QQ |
whose eyen are in the back of his head |
whose tongue is in his <r-t ('anus') |
whose right h^ps^ ('paw') is turning away |
whose left paw is crossing over his brow |
H.T-SMM is his mother; TWTW-BDS^ is his father [or else NDRH.-SMM & DWBS^T (p. 102, n. 55)] |
p. 20 (24) outfacing of the Samana-daimon
MRI,3 of the I,RTQ…3N3 tribe who speak with h.f3-w snakes and who make an end of the breath of QTY, their mother |
Suckle from the teats of Anat the <mry-t ('cow') of SWTH |
I,NR ('stone') [sacrificial altar] of SDR (on the i,trw 'river', p. 102, n. 66) |
p. 25 (35) for wbd-t ('a burn')
When her son H.R was burning, goddess 3S-t stated that to extinguish that fire "Water is in my mouth, an Inundation is between my thighs." |
p. 26 (37) [mask with eye- and ear-holes (p. 103, n. 97)]
H.R-WR (Horos the Elder) |
is charged with a mission |
by TM3 ('mat') |
lord of Tm3-t ('mat'-town) |
for H^NWM |
lord of H.w-t Wr-t |
p. 27 (39) Kkw Sm3w ('condensed darkness')
h^fty ('enemy') |
pfty ('fiend') |
mt ('male dead') |
mt-t ('female dead') |
d3y ('male opponent') |
d3y-t ('female opponent') |
pp. 27-28 (40) headache-spell
3-t ('striking power') of burning eye |
<3< ('ejaculations') |
mtw-t ('seeds / poison') |
nkn ('harms') |
i,wtyw ('digestion-products') |
g3w-t ('oppressions') |
i,sf-t ('wrongdoings') |
mr ('torments') |
wh^d-w ('inflammations') |
nqm ('afflictions') |
s^mm ('heat') |
h^-t ('fire') |
rdw-t ('fluids') |
ss^ ('nest') |
i,kn ('dug-outs') |
h.w3-t ('putrefactions') |
dw-t ('bad things') |
pp. 29-30 (41) muscle-spasms in fingers, shanks, thighs
organ |
as of __ |
heart |
3h^-w ('glorious spirits') |
arms |
H.R |
ph.ty ('buttocks / power') |
SWTH |
p. 34 (52)
"A book without script." {cf. "Blank as an uncarved block" (Dao De Jin)} |
p. 36 (55) royal decree
GB is to set up his mast, unfold his sail, [set out for] Yalu field |
pp. 37-38 (58) dispelling sh.d-w ('albugines') from the eyen
pp. 37-38 |
i,wn ('pillar') in sky hath fallen into the water {cf. [Chinese] myth of pillar which was broken-off in northeast part of sky} |
p. 38 |
"heads have fallen into the water." |
those heads were re-fastened back onto their necks : "to be said over … a tortoise" {cf. tortoise replacing god's chopped-off head in Popol Vuh} |
p. 38 (59) semen of a daimon
MaFDt (panther-goddess, p. 105 n. 144) received the <3< (‘ejaculation of semen’) of I,MY-NHD=F (‘Him-who-is-in-his-grimness’) in that room wherein the testicles of SWTH were amputated. |
pp. 40-1 (64) conjuration for the teats
p. 40 |
In order to cure her own teats, at Khemmis the mother of S^W and of TFNWt |
p. 41 |
conjured with i,3r (‘reed’) and with the bud of a snb-plant. |
pp. 41-2 (65) conjuration to protect a baby (from a female daimon, p. 106 n. 154)
p. 41 |
S3w (‘protection’) against TI,TI, by means of clover, h.dw (‘garlic’), honey "sweet to you, but bitter |
p. 42 |
to those-there" {cf. the book sweet in the mouth but bitter in the belly – Apokalupsis of Ioannes 10:10}, sdb of an abdw-fish, and the dorsal part of a <h.3 (‘Nile-perch fish’). |
p. 43 (68) a spell for wd3 (‘amulet’) to protect a baby (from a female daimon, p. 106 n. 165)
To dispel MRRt by means of gold-nuggets, h.m3g.t (‘garnet-balls’), a crocodile-sigil, and a [model of a] hand. |
pp. 43-4 (69) a spell against a B<<
p. 43 |
B<< maketh weak the knees. [p. 106 n. 168 /b<</ ‘to drink’ would imply a vampire]. |
p. 44 |
B<< daimon can be cured by a nestling swallow. {swallow is notch-tailed, cf. <ar. /Ba<aja/ ‘to notch’; <ar. /BuGat/ ‘small bird’} |
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NISABA, Vol. 9 = J. F. Borghouts (transl.): Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts. Brill, Leiden, 1978.