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Eye, daughter of Bel (1)

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Anti-witchcraft and anti-curse magic
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.04 Magic and exorcism
05.04.04 Anti-witchcraft and anti-curse magic
Eye
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.06 Human/divine/anthropomorphic symbols, imagery and iconographic motifs
02.06.03 Body parts
02.06.03.03 Eye
Marduk (Lordship, Mercy)
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.05 Great gods
01.04.03.05.06 Marduk (Lordship, Mercy)

Keywords
incantations
Mandeans

Period
Sasanid Empire

Channel
Mandean culture

Text
Shafta ḏ Pishra ḏ Ainia:
I spell the great Name and spell the Great First Word upon the Eye, daughter of Bel, and the Eye, daughter of Babylon, who weeps, pours forth lamentations, and sheds tears. And she says to her father: “Ptahil, the being who created this world and orders all the earth in perfection, gave me a portion (of the whole world) which I retain, and he gave me the ruling-power which I exercise.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Shafta ḏ Pishra ḏ Ainia

Bibliography

Drower 1938, 10

Drower, Ethel Stefana. “S̱ẖafta ḏ Pis̱ẖra ḏ Ainia. A Mandaean Magical Text Translated and Transliterated. Part 2.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1938) 1-20.

Amar Annus

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