Thyrathen: Greek Magic, Myth, and Folklore

Thyrathen: Greek Magic, Myth, and Folklore

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[Corrected] By the Circuit of the Sun and the Horn of the Moon
Exorcising the she-demon with hairy heels and eyes of flame
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Sasha Chaitow
Bacchic Philosopher of the Ineffable: Damaskios Part 2
Damaskios' Dionysian Life and Platonic Initiation
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Sasha Chaitow
The Forgotten Neoplatonist: Damaskios and Platonic Orthodoxy Part 1
The reality of the last Schools of Alexandria and Athens, and why the pagan-Christian dichotomy is inaccurate
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Sasha Chaitow
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Why Demons are Real, and Necessary
An introduction to Byzantine Demonology
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Sasha Chaitow
2
God Writes Man as an Icon of the Logos
Why Neoplatonist theology is the cornerstone of Orthodoxy - and why icons are always written, not painted.
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3
The Neoplatonic Soul of Theurgic Orthodoxy
Sensory theology and sacred matter: the practical and textual evidence
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Sasha Chaitow
3
Binding spells and exorcising demons
Two Byzantine spells in their first translation
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Sasha Chaitow
Solomonic Magic and Astrology in Orthodox Tradition - and Modern Greece
Echoes of Aion and celestial timekeeping as Helios still reigns supreme
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Sasha Chaitow
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Iatrosofía: Greek "Curanderismo"?
A living tradition of folk medicine and magic transmitted by women (and monks!)
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Sasha Chaitow
How to pronounce the Voces magicae in ritual
Their transmission by angels, and the hard evidence
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On the secret meanings of urinating baboons
And why this translation was needed: Excerpts from my new translation of the Hieroglyphica along with juicy footnotes.
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Sasha Chaitow
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Can you solve a Graeco-Egyptian Alchemical Riddle?
Some (more) evidence for Late Antique and Byzantine spiritual alchemy
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