Egypt
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- New Book: Egyptian Magic
The American University in Cairo Press Egyptian Magic. The Quest for Thoth’s Book of Secrets. Maarten J. Raven Maarten J. Raven is curator of the Egyptian Department of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (the Netherlands). He has organized...
- New Book: Ancient Egyptian Demonology
Peeters Ancient Egyptian Demonology. Studies on the Boundaries between the Demonic and the Divine in Egyptian Magic. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 175. Editor: Kousoulis P., 2011. In the Egyptian context, what we term magic and demon, drawing on our...
- Pharaoh As Wizard In Ancient Egypt
Tendencias21 Thanks hugely to Ben Morales-Correa for continuing to prop up this blog with his hard work. He has taken the time out to translate the Spanish article which I posted about yesterday - an extract from the book The Wizards of Ancient Egypt....
- Exhibition: Daily Magic In Ancient Egypt
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18373"The Walters Art Museum presents the exhibit Daily Magic in Ancient Egypt through November 18, 2007. Magic played an important role in religions of the ancient world. Amulets in...
- Exhibition: Magic In Ancient Egypt
http://www.thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=197Opening at the Walters Museum in Baltimore on December 2nd 2006, the above exhibition will run until November 18th 2007: "Magic played an important role in religions of the ancient world....
Egypt
Exhibition: Magic in Ancient Egypt
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How the Egyptians, known throughout the ancient world for their expertise in magic, addressed the unknown forces of the universe is explored in this exhibition of twenty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's world-famous collection.
Ancient Egyptians did not distinguish between religion and magic. They believed that the manipulation of written words, images, and ritual could influence the world through a divinely created force known as Heqa, personified as the eldest son of the solar creator Atum.
Heqa could be used by the gods to control and sustain the universe and by humans to deal with problems of ordinary life. The exhibition includes a relief of a son of Ramesses II, Prince Khaemwaset, who became legendary as a sage and magician; a bronze figure of the goddess Isis, known as "great of magic," holding a cobra that also had magical powers; a magical healing stela inspired by myths of Isis healing Horus of a scorpion bite; and a headrest with images of Bes and Taweret, deities who protected the dead and the living.
See the above page for more.
- New Book: Egyptian Magic
The American University in Cairo Press Egyptian Magic. The Quest for Thoth’s Book of Secrets. Maarten J. Raven Maarten J. Raven is curator of the Egyptian Department of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (the Netherlands). He has organized...
- New Book: Ancient Egyptian Demonology
Peeters Ancient Egyptian Demonology. Studies on the Boundaries between the Demonic and the Divine in Egyptian Magic. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 175. Editor: Kousoulis P., 2011. In the Egyptian context, what we term magic and demon, drawing on our...
- Pharaoh As Wizard In Ancient Egypt
Tendencias21 Thanks hugely to Ben Morales-Correa for continuing to prop up this blog with his hard work. He has taken the time out to translate the Spanish article which I posted about yesterday - an extract from the book The Wizards of Ancient Egypt....
- Exhibition: Daily Magic In Ancient Egypt
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18373"The Walters Art Museum presents the exhibit Daily Magic in Ancient Egypt through November 18, 2007. Magic played an important role in religions of the ancient world. Amulets in...
- Exhibition: Magic In Ancient Egypt
http://www.thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=197Opening at the Walters Museum in Baltimore on December 2nd 2006, the above exhibition will run until November 18th 2007: "Magic played an important role in religions of the ancient world....