Languages, Objects, and the Transmission of Rituals
An Interdisciplinary Analysis On Some Unsearched Ritual Practices in the Graeco-Egyptian Papyri (PGM)
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abstract
The transformations in ancient mind can be recognized by means of texts, which testify to the elaboration of the cultural semantic. Amongst these written sources, we can recognize some specific case-studies, such as the Greaco-Egyptian Papyri (PGM). By conducting open and experimental group research, this study aims to introduce new elements and suggestions for the history of both ideas and tradition of the scientific thought, in the frame of some late rituals. The starting point of this research is the Mediterranean Late Antiquity, an extraordinary lab for exchange, contacts and conflicts amongst traditions and knowledge: as stated by Ph. Borgeaud in his foreword, a perfect place for the study of cultures in contact.
Translation • Gemstones • History of religions • Textual tradition • Papyrus Mimaut • Hermetism • Amulets • Marketing Strategies • Content • Protection • External Characteristics • Antiquity • Libraries • Ramesside Egypt • Prosecution of paganism • Donkey • Magical Papyri • Ancient Egyptian Magic • Cats momies • Prosperity • Seth • Hellenistic Magicians • Hieratic • Hesyès • Rituals • Statuettes • Cross-cultural mixture • Typhon • PGM • Papyri • Transmission of knowledge • Egyptian • Magic • Cultural contact • Greek magical papyri • Authoritative Tradition • Greece and Egypt • Materia Magica • Identity Markers • Graeco Egyptian Papyri • Graeco-Egyptian Magical Formularies • PGM VII • Graeco-Egyptian papyri • Voces magicae