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02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs



02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs



Keywords
Chaldean Oracles
initiation rites
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire
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Text
Chaldean Oracles 146:
And even the mystical doctrine handed down by the gods imparts these things: “ … after this invocation, (it says) you will either see a fire, similar to a child, extended by bounds over the billow of air, or you will see a formless, from which a voice is set forth, or you will see a sumptuous light, rushing like a spiral around the field. But you may even see a horse, more dazzling than light, or even a child mounted on the nimble back of a horse, (a child) of fire or covered with gold or, again, a naked (child) or even (a child) shooting a bow and standing on the back (of a horse).”


Source (list of abbreviations)
Chaldean Oracles 146

Bibliography

Majercik 1989, 104-105Majercik, Ruth. The Chaldean Oracles. Text, Translation, and Commentary. Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 5. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1989.

Amar Annus


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