The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri write by Eleni Pachoumi. This book was released on 2017-05-05. The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eleni Pachoumi looks at the concepts of the divine in the Greek magical papyri by way of a careful and detailed analysis of ritual practices and spells. Her aim is to uncover the underlying religious, philosophical and mystical parallelisms and influences on the Greek magical papyri. She starts by examining the religious and philosophical concept of the personal daimon and the union of the individual with his personal daimon through the magico-theurgic ritual of systasis. She then goes on to analyze the religious concept of paredros as the divine "assistant" and the various relationships between paredros, the divine and the individual. To round off, she studies the concept of the divine through the manifold religious and philosophical assimilations mainly between Greek, Egyptian, Hellenized gods and divine abstract concepts of Jewish origins.
Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds
Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds write by . This book was released on 2022-01-04. Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.
Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks
Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks write by Eleni Pachoumi. This book was released on 2024-06-13. Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks. The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union, putting an emphasis on a conceptual blending of ritual actions (teletai, e.g. the role of statues, incenses, synthêmata, symbols, purifications, invocations and epiphanies) and philosophical concepts (e.g. union of many powers, ‘one and many’, symphathy, natural sympathies, attraction, mixing and division).
Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt
Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt write by Ljuba Merlina Bortolani. This book was released on 2016-10-10. Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This interdisciplinary study investigates the divine personas in the so-called magical hymns of the Greek magical papyri which, in a corpus usually seen as a significant expression of religious syncretism with strong Egyptian influence, were long considered to be the 'most authentically Greek' contribution. Fifteen hymns receive a line-by-line commentary focusing on religious concepts, ritual practice, language and style. The overarching aim is to categorise the nature of divinity according to its Greek or Egyptian elements, examining earlier Greek and Egyptian sources and religious-magical traditions in order to find textual or conceptual parallels. Are the gods of the magical hymns Greek or Egyptian in nature? Did the magical hymns originate in a Greek or Egyptian cultural background? The book tries to answer these questions and to shed light on the religious plurality and/or fusion of the two cultures in the treatment of divinity in the Greek magical papyri.
Decoding the Osirian Myth
Decoding the Osirian Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decoding the Osirian Myth write by Panagiota Sarischouli. This book was released on 2024-09-23. Decoding the Osirian Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The earliest written references to the Osirian myth-complex appeared already in the Pyramid Text spells (c. 2400–2300 BCE). The most complete exposition of this ancient Egyptian myth is, however, found in the Greek treatise On Isis and Osiris, in which the 2nd-century CE Platonist Plutarch utilises Egyptian mythology to advocate his philosophical ideas concerning the divine and the nature of the cosmos. This book aims at “decoding” Plutarch’s narrative of the Osirian myth, linking his claims to the existing Egyptian and Greek parallels. It thus analyses a multitude of mythic and religious traditions from a transcultural perspective, exploring the relation of the Pharaonic features of the Osirian divinities to the features they had acquired in Ptolemaic and Roman times, interpreting the Egyptian myth within the overall framework of parallel mythologies from other cultures, and examining whether the brief mythic stories (historiolae) recited in Late Egyptian ritual texts can be deployed to enrich the context of certain obscure episodes in Plutarch’s account of the myth. The book will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of Plutarch and later Middle Platonism, but also to Egyptologists. Due to its thematic variety and scope, this publication will also appeal to a wider array of readers (specialists and non-specialists alike) interested in religious syncretism, interreligious connections, and the challenge of multiculturalism from Hellenistic times until Late Antiquity.
