Beltane stroll
"Divination. -- A number of magical modes of divination are detailed in the 'Demotic Magical Papyrus,' ed Griffith-Thompson (see p. 14), but these instances do not seem to be of ancient origin. Oracle-seeking does not come under the head of magic, as here defined. "
<<F. Ll. Griffith and H. Thompson, Demotic Magical Papyrus, London, 1904>>
http://www.dabar.org/Religion/Hastings/JH-ERE-Magic-Egyptian.html
An demotischen Texten bereitet K.-T. Zauzich die Publikation der Berliner Handschrift des Thot-Buches vor. Er studiert auch eine Gruppe von etwa 250 demotische Ostraka aus Soknopaiou Nesos, cf. Akten des 21. Intern. Papyrologenkongresses Berlin, Stuttgart - Leipzig 1997, S. 1056-1060.
Soknopaiou Nesos, 29 32'N 30 40'E modern Dimai
"The population of a temple village like Soknopaiou Nesos, on the north side of the lake in the Fayyum, with almost 100 percent Egyptian names and very limited signs of Greek culture, is as close to entirely Egyptian as one can come. Even there, however, most of the documents were written in Greek, and there is enough evidence to allow us to suppose that a Greek school operated in the village."
http://www.fathom.com/feature/2080/
"...we find references to other temples (undiscovered, presumably in the town): one of Sokopichonsis, another form of Sobek; one of Thoth, identified by the Greeks with Hermes, where ibises and falcons were mummified and buried as offerings..."
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~tebtunis/lecture/townfull.html
The Scroll of Thoth
"The name "the Scroll of Thoth" appears in the Tale of Setne, which was written a thousand years after his death. This papyrus (Cairo Museum 30646) tells the story of Prince Setne's desire to obtain a book of magic written by Thoth himself. The idea of a supreme book of magic which had the power to awaken the consciousness. The first account of the book was published in English in 1900 (F. Ll. Griffith Stories of the High Priests of Memphis) and this book so impressed Aleister Crowley, that he took its title and applied to his Tarot deck."
http://www.xeper.org/setne/pages/osk0.htm
Stories of the High Priests of Memphis; The Sethon of Herodotus and The Demotic Tales of Khamuas Parts 1 and 2 by Griffith, F. Ll. (Francis Llewellyn) Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1900
http://www.cwru.edu/univlib/preserve/Etana/high_priest/high_priest.html
Professor Richard Jasnow of Johns Hopkins University June 2, 2000 summary of his remarks (concerning the tale of Setne
"This is a Graeco-Roman Period story about an actual son of Ramses II, Setne Khamwas. This prince was in fact quite active in restoration and building, and seems to have been something of a scholar as well. It is thus not surprising that he entered the literary tradition as a great magician. However, his image is not always positive. In Setne 1, he appears as a rather unfeeling and selfish priestly magician determined to gain possession of a book written by Thoth himself.
This tale is actually told as a story-within-a-story, for Setne must take the magic book from an earlier magician, Naneferkaptah, who had given his life to possess this powerful book. Setne seizes the book from the dead magician (now a ghost) – the action takes place in the tomb of the magician in Memphis. His wife and child had died as a result of Naneferkaptah's wish to possess the Thoth-book, but they too can still lead a ghostly existence. After the theft, the god Thoth himself had complained to Re, and the thief and his family were condemned to die. While Setne seizes the book from its owners, he is punished by Naneferkaptah, a superior magician." :
http://www.arcedc.org/aug00.html
"This tale of Setna only exists in one copy, a demotic papyrus in the Ghizeh Museum. The demotic was published in facsimile by Mariette in 1871, among “Les Papyrus du Musee de Boulaq;” and it has been translated by Brugsch, Revillout, Maspero, and Hess. The last version—*“Der Demotische Roman von Stne Ha-m-us, von J. J. Hess”—*being a full study of the text with discussion and glossary, has been followed here; while the interpretation of Maspero has also been kept in view in the rendering of obscure passages."
http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/7413/33.html
Mariette in Papyrus Égyptiens du Musée de Boulaq, publiés en fac-simile sous les auspices de S.A. Ismaïl-Pacha, Khédive d'Égypte.
Brugsch, Le Roman de Setnau (in Revue 147 Archéologique, 2nd series, Vol. xvi., 1867, p. 161 ff.); Maspero, Contes Égyptiens, Paris, 1882, pp. 45-82; Records of the Past, vol. iv., pp. 129-148; and for the original Demotic text see Mariette, Les Papyrus du Musée de Boulaq, tom. i., 1871, pll. 29-32; Revillout, Le Roman de Setna, Paris, 1877; Hess, Roman von Sfne Ha-m-us. Leipzig, 1888.
The Boulaq Museum
"The founding of the old Boulac museum, which was transferred to Ghizeh, and retransferred but a short time ago to Boulac, was due to the marvellous energy and perseverance of F. Auguste Ferdinand Mariette."
http://www.duaut.net/Order.htm
"<<Aleister Crowley>>wrote that he had dinner with a "Brugsch-Bey" of the museum, to talk about the stélé <<"of revealing">>, and there was an Emile Brugsch who was actually a conservator at the museum ("Bey" being a title; one lower than that of "Pasha" which he was later awarded). Brugsch had been responsible for the recovery ."
http://www.duaut.net/Boulaq.htm
see also:
http://www.duaut.net/Archive.html
"It is a curious feature of Crowley's accounts of events that he persisted, throughout his life, in calling the museum in which Rose led him to the stélé "the Boulak museum"; or even as the "museum at Bulaq" ( in "The Equinox of the Gods")."
http://www.castletower.org/boulaq_mcleod.html
Cairo Egypt 1904 17 Mar.
"A.C.’s own entry in his diary "The Book of Results", tells: "It is "all about the child" Also "all Osiris". Thoth, invoked with great success, indwells us." Thoth "probably invoked as in Liber LXIV".
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-21169/Therion.htm
THE EQUINOX OF THE GODS CHAPTER 7
"March 17.<<1904>> More apparently nonsensical messages, this time spontaneous. I invoke Thoth, probably as in Liber LXIV, and presumably to clear up the muddle."
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/eoftg/eqotg7.html
LIBER ISRAFEL SVB FIGVRA LXIV
"This book was formerly called Anubis, and is referred to the 20th key, "The Angel" "
http://www.geocities.com/cranesco/64.html
"...The old man was a very keen collector, wasn't he? Suppose he employed Spratt to smuggle precious stones? A clever tool; trustworthy, prudent, ingenious, silent; all one could desire! Then suppose the letter was meant to convey exactly what it did not say: the letters omitted instead of those expressed: in plain American, E. Z. 'Easy' would have told your father that he had had no trouble with the Custom House people, and perhaps advised him to take certain prearranged steps for the transference of the smuggled stuff. The haste is now fully accounted for; he must have feared that your father would be anxious, as the ship was so late. Or, possibly, he had promised to make good on a definite day.""
-Aleister Crowley: The Monkey and the Buzz-Saw