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

i,rw (‘shapes’)

h3.t ("corpse-like apparitions")

h.k3 (magic’)

Ye will see; ye will perceive :

Lord-of-all

NTYw (‘Those-who-are’)

I,TM

WDyt mistress of fear

HRD (‘Child’)

NB M3<t (‘Lord of Righteousness’)

WNMW (‘Devourer’) made by Sia

"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

 

belly

 

i,3-t (‘backbone’)

 

<HW (daimon)

 

<H^W-t (female daimon)

 

entering of R< (sunrise)

 

moment

5

crocodile

 

lion

 

? (animal)

 

h.f3w (‘snake’)

 

dl (‘scorpion’)

 

horns

 

h3-t (‘corpse’)

 

bronze

 

being buried

 

not being buried

 

falling off a wall

 

<g3 (‘drowning’)

 

s^w-t (‘shadow’)

 

loins

 

lungs

 

spleen

 

liver

 

i,3-t (‘backbone’)

 

vertebrae

 

teeth

 

<s^<s^ (‘gullet’)

 

arms

 

t3w (‘breath’)

 

h.3ty (‘thorax’)

 

i,b (‘heart’)

 

ph.wy-t (‘the behind’)

 

sycamore

 

k3k3-fruit

 

any rush

 

any herb

 

"a male who has made himself into a woman (and vice versa)"

 

biting by a man

 

biting by any lion

 

sherd

 

qh. (‘hewn stone’)

 

mh.3w (‘swelling’)

 

mr (‘illness’)

 

hrp (‘going under’)

 

bone of bird

 

bone of fish

 

hastening

 

b3q-t (‘throat’)

 

feet

 

hands

 

any h.wi, (‘striking’)

 

any stabbing

 

any stone

 

falling

 

any h^t (‘cudgel’)

 

any g3w ('oppression')

 

<d3 ('palate')

 

b3q-t ('throat')

 

starving

 

thirsting

 

s^di, ('breast-feeding')

 

sh^d ('being turned upside down')

 

h^nmt-t ('whore')

 

h3i, m i,wr-t ('praemature giving birth')

 

nni, ('weariness')

 

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

of my __

for __

h.3ty (breast)

SH^M-t

liver

WSI,R

 

not to allow __

entry of ass on account of NFRI,

bsbs ('jumping-up') of green-breasted goose

[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.