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Birth tusks (also called magical wands or apotropaic wands [1]) are wands for apotropaic magic (to ward off evil), mainly from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. They are most often made of hippopotamus ivory ( Taweret , represented as a bipedal hippopotamus is the goddess of childbirth and fertility), are inscribed and decorated with a series of ...
An ancient Egyptian apotropaic wand shows a procession of protective deities. It was used in birth rituals, perhaps to draw a magic circle around the mother and child. Items and symbols such as crosses, crucifixes, silver bullets, wild roses and garlic were believed to ward off or destroy vampires.
Such a wand would have been used in rituals associated with birth and were perhaps used to draw a magical circle around the mother and child. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Faience Amulet of Taweret from the late period of Ancient Egypt. Egyptian Museum (Turin, Italy) Taweret's image served a functional purpose on a variety of objects.
The latest apotropaic wand found belongs to the Second Intermediate Period king Senebkay. [5] It seems that the use of these objects in Egypt declines after this point. The Barsom used by Zoroastrian Magi is a bundle of twigs that was used during religious ceremonies. While the Barsom is not a wand itself, it was also used for divination ...
Apotropaic magic; Black magic; ... (c. 213–270), Saint Menas of Egypt (285–c. 309), Saint Nicholas ... a wand might be used to direct energy during a ritual ...
An ancient Egyptian scribe’s snake fascination has carried on for 2,500 years. In a recently located tomb outside of Cairo, archeologists were confronted by the transparent volume of text and ...
The Crystal Ball, by John William Waterhouse (1902), depicts a crystal ball, a skull, a wand, and a book of ceremonial magic. The art of divination is generally employed for the purpose of obtaining information that can guide the adept in his Great Work. The underlying theory states that there exists intelligences (either outside of or inside ...
In an annual rite called the Ritual of Overthrowing Apophis, priests would build an effigy of Apep that was thought to contain all of the evil and darkness in Egypt, and burn it to protect everyone from Apep's evil for another year.