RELIG274 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Early Modern Europe, Wicca, Zande People
23 Jan 2020
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Lecture 2: ancient magic, 1st to 5th century, roman empire, hellenization: (greek influence): greek empire imposing greek culture to those they conquered and romans improved off the. Greeks: theougria or theurgy, he highest form of magic, involving practices with the divine such as invoking deities. Theougia included rituals of state and sacrifices for the good of the state: mageia, second highest form of magic, was practiced by various experts to help themselves or others for a price. They performed similar rituals as practitioners of theougria but on a smaller and more private scale: goetia, the lowest form of magic, understood as a fraudulent form of. Mageia or magic: hymns, songs that were sung and sometimes danced to, they involved the recitation of a god"s name plus a petition of some sort. The purpose of the toothpick was to inscribe the letters and use the tooth pick to heal tooth abscesses (invoking the healing powers of jesus)
