Magic in Ancient Egypt
Geraldine Pinch
Such feats of engineering as the Giza pyramids, the irrigation system and so on suggest that the Egyptians knew the law of cause and effect. They also knew that this wasn’t all there was to this world. Egypt produced techniques of magic, innumerable magical texts and magical objects: figurines, statues, amulets, wands, etc. (pierced dolls are an Egyptian invention). The book also touches on the role of magicians, the magico-medical exchange with Mesopotamia, how rulers like Augustus (who burnt many magical books seen as subversive) reacted to magic, and the influence of Egyptian magic on Medieval and Renaissance times (including Arab scholars) and modern practitioners such as W.B. Yeats and Aleister Crowley. MET
Publisher: University of Texas
Paperback: 192 pages
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