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