Hecate-Artemis
Describing a spell for "dream-sending" (P. Louvre E 3229 2,10-3,1), the splendidly named Joachim Friedrich Quack remarks: "It has obvious connections with other Graeco-Roman magical texts of late Antiquity in its use of strange magical names. One of them, Neboutosoualeth, is actually well-attested in Greek papyri where it is normally an epithet of Hecate. This makes sense in so far as Hecate-Artemis is invoked as a lunar deity in those texts, and our papyrus uses just the lunar connection [it must be performed on the last day of the lunar month]. Still, a female lunar deity is not a traditional Egyptian conception but an innovation due to Greek influence." Noting a connection to Set, he adds, "This gives the impression that an older ritual making use of lunar mythology centered around Osiris has been adapted and remodelled by adding Hecate-Artemis to it."
These spells are hella cool. The magician's shopping list includes stuff like a human skull, the blood of a black dog, the milk of a black cow, and water pinched from the sacred lake (do not get caught). The main trick is to force some spirit or ghost to deliver a fake message, disguised as the victim's god. The cheek!
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Quack, Joachim Friedrich. "Remarks on Egyptian Rituals of Dream-Sending". in Kousoulis, P. (ed). Ancient Egyptian Demonology: studies on the boundaries between the demonic and the divine in Egyptian magic (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 175). Leuven ; Walpole, Mass. : Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2011. pp 140-141.
These spells are hella cool. The magician's shopping list includes stuff like a human skull, the blood of a black dog, the milk of a black cow, and water pinched from the sacred lake (do not get caught). The main trick is to force some spirit or ghost to deliver a fake message, disguised as the victim's god. The cheek!
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Quack, Joachim Friedrich. "Remarks on Egyptian Rituals of Dream-Sending". in Kousoulis, P. (ed). Ancient Egyptian Demonology: studies on the boundaries between the demonic and the divine in Egyptian magic (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 175). Leuven ; Walpole, Mass. : Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2011. pp 140-141.