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[theluigianapurchase]

he’s so correct

[book-of-forbidden-knowledge]

Art and symbols from the Greek Magical Papyri

[madmonksandmaenads]

I think this magician got really excited about Anubis partway through writing this papyri and happened to invent my new favorite epithet

[sitting-1n-silence]

~Feeding Fire to the Dead ~

The realm of the dead is often depicted as a cold dark place, sometimes even being wet. Making it's denizens cool fluid beings craving fire and the warmth of vitality. Chthonic entities, in my experience, are very reactive to warming offerings. Such as candles, fire, coffee, liquor, and spices. These types of gifts excite the spirits of the underworld, allowing their old bones to thaw from being in cold chthonic waters.

You have to be careful feeding fire to the dead. While it is excellent at bringing movement to slumbering beings, it can also lead the dead to cause chaos. Acting wild and unruly for the inexperienced conjurer. Which is why in traditions like Quimbanda you'll find firey spirits such as Exu and Pomba Gira are given these types of firery offerings and mediums will consume alcohol and tobacco, but are warned against over indulgence as to not give the spirit control over you. There is a line to ride when it comes to exciting spirits with hot offerings, as too much fire and the magician could get burned.

Cooling offerings are often preferable when working with the dead for this very reason. Especially with wild/unknown dead you are working with, because over excitement could be dangerous when you're unfamiliar with the being you're speaking with. These offerings take the form of milk, honey, wine, and sometimes coins. You see these types of offerings used frequently in the PGM when working with the dead, and other rarer ingredients get used inconjunction when working with divinities. These cooling offerings call the spirit forward without inciting them too much, and can also be paried with hot offerings to temper spirit.

This is why im my personal practice with my local dead I tend to shy away from hot offerings, and focus more on giving cooling gifts such as coins, milk, and sometimes honey. Only when I really want excitement and quick action do I lean towards feeding my spirits of the dead hotter offerings.

[chthonic-sorcery]

The Stele of Aphrodite : an Ancient Greek Love Charm ☆💗☆

Many love spells in the ancient world, particularly in the PGM are that of what are known as fetching charms, or binding spells: love spells targeting specific people. However, there are a number of more generalized love spells, ones with no particular target, such as the Stele of Aphrodite.

The Stele of Aphrodite is Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) spell number IV. 1265-74, and dates back to the late Hellenic period of ancient Greece. It was used primarily for love magic, specifically to invoke the favor and obsession of a desired individual, as well as for favor and success within friendship, popularity and beauty. The stele was believed to harness the power of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, to sway the emotions and actions of whoever sees you in favor of the practitioner.

Step by step instructions on how to create your own below ☆

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the aesthetic of a modern sea witch who also practices ancient magic aka me core

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PGM III. 1-164: Revised

Spell to Create a Cat Spirit Assistant/Familiar using an Effigy

*[Take a] cat effigy, and [make] it into an Esies [by submerging] its body in water. While you are drowning it, speak [the formula] to [its] back. The formula during the drowning [is as tollows:

"Come hither to me, you who are in control of the form of Helios, you the cat- / faced god,' and behold your form, and empower this effigy with the spirit of NN (add relation to recently deceased cat, if not creating a new cat spirit entirely), because I am calling upon you, O sacred spirit. Take on / strength and vigor, NN, because I am conjuring you by your names,

BARBATHIAÕ BAINCHOÖOCH NIABÖAITHABRAB* SESENGENBARPHARARGÉS . ..PHREIMI;

raise yourself up for me, O cat-faced god, and ensoul the body of NN" (add the usual).

Tlake the cat, and place Light seven lamps around its body, and make an offering, fumigating storax gum to it, and be of good cheer.? / Take its body [and preserve] it by immuring it either in a tomb or in a dark place... with colors,..... until the sunrise then take out and light another 7 lamps around its body.

Then take up the water in which the drowning took place, and sprinkle it [on] the effigy. The formula to be spoken, while you are sprinkling the drowning water, is as fol-lows:

"I call upon you, Mother of all men, / you who have brought together the limbs of Meliouchos, even Meliouchos himself, OROBASTRIA NEBOUTOSOUALETH, Entrapper," Mistress of corpses,' Hermes, Hekate, Hermekate,

LETH

AMOUMAMOUTERMYOR;

I conjure you, the daimon that has been aroused in this place, / and you, the daimon of the cat that has been endowed with spirit;' come to me on this very day and from this very moment NN, and become my assistant, my protector, my familiar." (add the usual, whatever you wish), "CHYCHBACHYCH BACHACHYCH BACH-AXICHYCH BAZABACHYCH BAIACHACHYCH BAZETOPHOTH / BAINCHOOOCH ANI-

BÔ00 CHOCHE ... PHIÔCHEN GÉBROCHTHO MYSAGAÕTH CHEÕO ... Ol° SA-

BAỐTH EULAMOSI EELAXIMA... [... THACHOCH]AXIN CHOUCHEÖCH."

Finish with Helios Consecration (Consecration Rite for All Purposes: PGM IV.1596-1715)

Or Use Hekate Spell for Anything as Consecration Spell.