This text discusses Chaldean magic and sorcery, demonology, amulets, the ritual of the dead, the development of Chaldean mythology, and the relationship of Chaldean magic to other traditions. A number of spells and incantations are included.
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A scholarly look at an ancient magic system,
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This review is from: Chaldean Magic: Its Origin and Development (Hardcover)
This book does not pull any punches. In the first chapter, really right away, translations of the Chaldean writings are discussed. As a reader I was a little shocked and quite impressed. Usually there has to be a good bit of discussion before such a candid look at the actual translations. Lenormant (writing in the 19th century) wasted none of the reader's time in getting to the meat of the issue and leaves the scholarly deviations for later in the book. This makes it clean, quick, and easy to take a look at how the Chaldeans viewed medicine and apotropaic magic. Adapting this for one's own use (if so inclined) would be very easy. If this book isn't in your library then you aren't really studying ancient magic.
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From the 19th century comes this work on the origin and development of Chaldean magic. Right away the author introduces us to important texts and saves most of the analysis for later.
I had a lot of trouble getting into this text. The writing styles have changed a great deal since the book was originally published, and the methods have changed a great deal. More seriously, the field has progressed a great deal since this book was written. Many of the theses are less tenable today than they were in the 19th century (in particular the thesis that the fire of the Zoroastrian alter is of Chaldean rather than Indo-Iranian origin). Therefore the book should be read with a certain degree of scepticism. Much of the book is spent comparing and contrasting Chaldean tablets with Egyptian and Finno-Ugric works. However, there are interesting elements to the book nonetheless, and it does challenge the reader in important ways. The translations of the tablets are worth reading in their own right. Moreover its often worth pondering older theses to see if they have actually been superceded. On the whole, I'd recommend this work but not without caveats.
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A GENERAL, but tolerably complete idea of the magic conjuration of the Chaldeans, its processes and its principal applications, may be obtained from a document which Sir Henry Rawlinson and Mr. Edwin Norris published "in facsimile" in 1866, in the second volume of their collection of the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
des fragments cosmogoniques, evil fate depart, casual suffixes, favourable demon, burning fire devour, ideographic expression, ideographic group, sacerdotal schools, dii minores, lower abyss, magic collection, rest with thee, whence none return, magical collection, humid element, magical documents, elementary spirits, solar character, violent operation, magic texts, wicked demon, divine personages, wicked god, magic formulae, celestial gods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Records of the Past, Fox Talbot, Sir Henry Rawlinson, British Museum, Ritual of the Dead, Median Magism, The Five Great Monarchies, Male Spirits, Diodorus Siculus, Spirit of Tiskhu, Artaxerxes Mnemon, Canon Rawlinson, Kushites of Babylon, Persian Gulf, Early History of Babylonia, George Rawlinson, George Smith, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Kunde des Morgenlandes, Lettres Assyriologiques, Semitic Assyrian, Spirit of Nin-gelal, Turanians of Chaldea New!
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A GENERAL, but tolerably complete idea of the magic conjuration of the Chaldeans, its processes and its principal applications, may be obtained from a document which Sir Henry Rawlinson and Mr. Edwin Norris published "in facsimile" in 1866, in the second volume of their collection of the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
des fragments cosmogoniques, evil fate depart, casual suffixes, favourable demon, burning fire devour, ideographic expression, ideographic group, sacerdotal schools, dii minores, lower abyss, magic collection, rest with thee, whence none return, magical collection, humid element, magical documents, elementary spirits, solar character, violent operation, magic texts, wicked demon, divine personages, wicked god, magic formulae, celestial gods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Records of the Past, Fox Talbot, Sir Henry Rawlinson, British Museum, Ritual of the Dead, Median Magism, The Five Great Monarchies, Male Spirits, Diodorus Siculus, Spirit of Tiskhu, Artaxerxes Mnemon, Canon Rawlinson, Kushites of Babylon, Persian Gulf, Early History of Babylonia, George Rawlinson, George Smith, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Kunde des Morgenlandes, Lettres Assyriologiques, Semitic Assyrian, Spirit of Nin-gelal, Turanians of Chaldea New!
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- Chaldean Magic (1877) by Lenormant in Front Matter, page 80, and page 160
- Chaldean Account of Genesis by George Smith on page 28, page 118, and page 336
- The Elements of Theology: A Revised Text with Translation, Introduction, and Commentary (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Proclus on page 75
- The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum by Rupert Smith on page 53
- The Magic And Sorcery Of The Chaldeans by Francois Lenormant on page 1
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- The Babylonian Tarot by Sandra Tabatha Cicero on page 89, and Back Matter
- The Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind The Legend by Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce III on page 37
- Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras And His Influence on Thought And Art in Antiquity And the Middle Ages by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier in Back Matter
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