ANCH2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Early Christianity, Week

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30 Jun 2018

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Department

Ancient History

Course

ANCH2030

Professor

Amelia Brown

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Week 12 Lecture

Magic:

Gendered as female

A distancing

Getting higher powers to do their personal bidding

Love and death – resort to magic

Persians:

Consults the Magi

Tri-lingual inscriptions with genealogy

Come down from the sun-disk – ring of power “you are now the king”

Greek:

Rituals of purification by blood

Divination and inspected by the sacrifice

Hecate (goddess of the crossroads, 3 roads meet) – patron of the moon, women, mysteries,

creator of all sorts of things (usually invoked by witches)

Sacred texts about how to do spells (carry out a curse is to put it near to someone dead to

throw down a well, or people close to death)

Idea of Doctor Hero God

Receive dreams from the hero god

Rome:

Damn sacred snake again – slithered into Rome

Anatolia:

The Great Mother (mother of the gods)

Galli – seen as never growing beards and being plump in later life

Castrated for the honour of youthful escort that had been killed

Phoenicia and Assyria:

Local goddess who transformed into a fish

Contributed to star lore and lists

Idea of star study

Associated with the gods and human fate

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Getting higher powers to do their personal bidding. Come down from the sun-disk ring of power you are now the king . Hecate (goddess of the crossroads, 3 roads meet) patron of the moon, women, mysteries, creator of all sorts of things (usually invoked by witches) Sacred texts about how to do spells (carry out a curse is to put it near to someone dead to throw down a well, or people close to death) Damn sacred snake again slithered into rome. Galli seen as never growing beards and being plump in later life. Castrated for the honour of youthful escort that had been killed. Tells when to do things in daily life and religion. 5 and 2 planets used for the 7 days of the week for a system recognising time. Division of the moth dedicated to one of the astrological bodies. Ancient water signs, pisces (the fish) (aphrodite and eros)

ANCH2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Early Christianity, Week

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