Magic in Ancient Egypt - Brossura

Pinch, Geraldine

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0292765592 ISBN 13: 9780292765597

Casa editrice: Univ of Texas Pr, 1994

Riassunto

The Egyptians were famous in the ancient world for their knowledge of magic. Religion, medicine, technology, and what we would call magic coexisted without apparent conflict, and it was not unusual for magical and practical remedies for illness, for example, to be used side by side. Everyone resorted to magic, from the pharaoh guarding his country with elaborate magical rituals to the expectant mother wearing amulets to safeguard her unborn child. In this book, Geraldine Pinch examines the connections between myth and magic and the deities--such as the goddess Isis, and the protective lion-demon Bes--who had special magical importance. She discusses the techniques of magic, its practitioners, and the surviving magical texts, as well as the objects that were used in magic: figurines, statues, amulets, and wands. She devotes a chapter to medicine and magic and one to magic and the dead. Finally, Dr. Pinch shows how elements and influences from Egyptian magic survived in or were taken up by later societies, right down to our own century.

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Book by Pinch Geraldine

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Texas Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0292765592
• ISBN 13: 9780292765597
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 191