Caroline et al
Yes indeed - although another extensive category would be segments from
ancient egyptian rubriks and stereotypical formulae, mistaken for god names
or voce magicae during the roman revival - the best example off the top of
my head is 'Ouphor' - which is not a god name but the name of the ritual for
the opening of the mouth - only the name survives but the rite itself is
extremely ancient and inportant in the animation of mummies and other fetish
objects.
As to
Thaphthartharath
Chris Lehrich goes through the whole QBL analysis of the name -
which is interesting although i would have thought the first place to look
would be in the egyptian language itself - then Greek then Hebrew -
I was thinking about it yesterday in my own 'house of life' and it could be
something like:
Thaph thar tharath
Which is very close to the name Thoth, 3 times by reduplication -
which is a very egyptian thing - hence Thrice Great Thoth -
Or maybe something like
Thoth wr wr wr
or
Thoth ah ah wr
thrice great thoth (wr = great, ah = great
(this is v rough as i can't transcribe them properly in this email)
??
bb/93
mogg
PS: Incidentally a new edition (text and translation) of the egyptian 'Book
of Thoth'
was published last year - the mss thought to be the work of eqyptian
hermeticists.
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Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Gibberish
Mogg said..
>>given how contruing of the phrases from the grimoires and magical papyri
>>is quite a tricky process - would be nice if someone compiled a glossary
>>of those already done so far from various new books?<<
I don't know if anyone has compiled a definitive list of what they think the
voces magicae in the PGM are, but my lecturer in ancient magic said that
such things are one of the areas where scholars spend a lot of time
speculating on whether such words are gibberish, badly interpreted foreign
words, possibly names of deities or actual secret names of deities. Some of
the voces magicae in the PGM can be traced back to deity names, others are
possibly composite deities - divine figures made up of the seemingly
effective parts of other deites into one tailored power source for the
particular spell, the composite deities are usually made up of gods foreign
to the user, but from around the Mediterranean.
~Caroline.
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