Prayer, magic, and the stars in the ancient and late antique world /
In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankind through signs and active intervention. Men and women were thus eager to interpret, appeal to, and even control the gods and their agents....
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2003], ©2003
University Park, Pa. : c2003 University Park, Pa. : ©2003 University Park, Pa. : [2003] |
Series: | Magic in history
Magic in history |
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