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.
Cross-cultural mixture • Amulets • Voces magicae • Cats momies • Gemstones • Magical Papyri • Seth • Donkey • Prosecution of paganism • Egyptian • Greek magical papyri • Graeco Egyptian Papyri • Marketing Strategies • Materia Magica • Identity Markers • Libraries • Authoritative Tradition • Ancient Egyptian Magic • Hellenistic Magicians • Hieratic • Content • External Characteristics • Textual tradition • Prosperity • Papyrus Mimaut • Graeco-Egyptian papyri • Papyri • Antiquity • Magic • Graeco-Egyptian Magical Formularies • PGM VII • Transmission of knowledge • Hermetism • Hesyès • History of religions • Statuettes • Typhon • Cultural contact • PGM • Rituals • Translation • Ramesside Egypt • Greece and Egypt • Protection