Angels and Ištars (1)

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Mandaic Incantation Bowl:
Repulsed, averted, and driven away are the curses and incantations from the body of [ … ], the son of Haṭima. A voice of the earth which trembles! A voice of the h[eavens] which return! A voice of shaking and trembling, of the war that exists among the angels of the firmaments! There has been a commotion among the Ištars and Liliths! Voices of powerful and raging women who curse and crawl on their rears! The spit has been spat, and bitter are (the curses) which they have cursed in the name of the seven angels and the three (?) Ištars, in the name of Estqutqup powerful and infernal, and of Adonai Hbubit Snubit, in the name of Ištar the queen (?). I, who have seen them, placed as a cover over them the great vault which is over the sorceries, and twisted all of them together, and seized all of their mysteries which were in me. And they said: “Who has deprived us of our mystery and who has twisted us?” And I said to them: “Dissolve that which you have cursed and uproot that which you have spat!” And they said to us: “We say, O mighty being who dissolves the curses which we have cursed in the name [of] these angels and Ištars in the name of [ … ...], Šraiel and Šabqaiel who dwell on high, who dissolve the curses and incantations of cursing women who have cursed and made incantations at the gate of the temple in the name of Adonai Ṣnubit, in the name of Ištar, the queen (?) … So be it, amen!

Source (list of abbreviations)
Mandaic Incantation Bowl

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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