The notation of “not given” at the end, means that the papyrus from which this formula came did not include the “stele” promised in the spell.Īnd here is another divinatory formula, this one for a perhaps Tarot-like method that seems to have used correspondences to the 29 letters of the Coptic alphabet and 29 Deities: Most likely the magician who wrote down this spell was an Egyptian for he or she noted that Isis accomplished this great magic, but the Greek God Asklepios, even with the help of Hebe, could not do what the Great Goddess Isis did. The magician makes a magical ink, then writes a formula that Isis used as She worked the great magic of resurrecting Osiris. This spell partakes of the magic of writing as well as words of power. Susan Seddon Boulet’s beautiful Isis raising Osiris This is the formula: “Come to me, SESEGGENBARPHARAGGES SABAOTH, for I conjure you, daimon of the dead, by bitter Necessity open your ears and hear the holy words.” Also say frequently the stele given below. Asklepios saw Osiris and admitted that he could not put together someone who was dead even with the help of Hebe or of anyone else. Isis uttered it and wrote it when, after taking up Osiris, she fit together his separated members. Preparation of the ink: 3 dried figs, 3 stones of the Nicolaus date, 3 fragments of wormwood, and 3 lumps of myrrh mix together, then pulverizing them, write the following formula. Look to the east and say: “You are the one who thunders, the one who rains and hurls lightning at the right time and dries in the same way come to me, reveal. This spell is for a receiving a vision or Divine answer to a problem: Where it says, “add the usual,” the person would add their own name to personalize the spell. In addition to the names of Isis, we also see what are probably names of Thoth, Egypt’s other Great Divine Magician. The mysterious words are magical names of Isis and are commonly found in the Magical Papyri they are exceptionally powerful names. The first line refers to the Isis-Osiris myth familiar at the time: while Osiris-here called Agathos Daimon, the Good Spirit-went on His civilizing mission, Isis ruled Egypt, the Black Land. Here, Isis is a Moon Goddess, evidenced by the offering to the moon given before speaking the words of power. Lady Isis, Nemesis, Adrasteia, many-named, many-formed, glorify me, as I have glorified the name of your son Horus. Protect me, great and marvelous names of the great god. Protect me, great and marvelous names of the god for I am the one established in Pelusium, SERPHOUTH MOUISRO, STROMMO MOLOTH MOLONTHER PHON Thoth. Your name is LOU LOULOU BATHARTHAR THARESIBATH ATHER-NEKLESICH, ATHER-NEBOUNI EICHOMO CHOMOTHI Isis Sothis, SOUERI, Bubastis, EURELIBAT CHAMARI NEBOUTOS OUERI AIE EOA OAI. “I call on you, Lady Isis, whom Agathos Daimon permitted to rule in the entire black land. Taking sulfur and seed of Nile rushes, burn them as incense to the moon and say, Here, for example, is a protective spell: I thought I might share some of those with you today and provide a little commentary. There’s more on the Papyri in this previous post.Īs you might imagine, I have been through every amazing page, searching out the “Isis formulæ,” that is, the texts that strongly involve Isis. I prefer to call them Græco-Egyptian rather than just Greek, for while they were written largely in Greek and they reflect a hellenized Egyptian culture, they are actually from Egypt (the city of Thebes, modern Luxor) and the magical techniques they employ are almost purely Egyptian. First published in English in 1986 as The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation including the Demotic Spells and edited by Hans Dieter Betz, the Magical Papyri are an anthology of ancient books and extracts from books which were translated by an international team of scholars. Usually known simply as the Greek Magical Papyri, they are a collection of magical texts, written on papyrus rolls in Greek and Demotic Egyptian and which date from the 2nd to the 5th centuries CE. An Isis amulet…with the raised hand, perhaps this is a protective amulet
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