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Hohman's best known work is the collection of prayers and recipes for folk-healing titled Pow-Wows, or the Long Lost Friend, published in German in 1820 as Der Lange Verborgene Freund (The Long-Hidden Friend) and in two English translations—the first in 1846 in a rather crude translation by Hohman himself ("The Long Secreted Friend or a True ...
Book of the Dead 125: 34–36: The Protestation of Guiltlessness: Mesha Stele: 2.23: The Inscription of King Mesha: 320–321: The Moabite Stone: Siloam inscription: 2.28: The Siloam Tunnel Inscription: 321: The Siloam Inscription: Yehimilk inscription: 2.29: The Inscription of King Yahimilk: 653–654: Yehimilk of Byblos: Kilamuwa Stela: 2.30 ...
A Pennsylvania Dutch variant, c. 1790, of the Sator Square, one of the spells in The Long Lost Friend. Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend is a book by John George Hohman published in 1820. Hohman was a Pennsylvania Dutch healer; the book is a collection of home- and folk-remedies, as well as spells and talismans.
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
Lost Civilizations is a series of books that have been published by Reaktion Books since 2015. The books explore the origins, development and decline of ancient civilizations and peoples, and considers the history, art, culture and legacy of these civilizations. [1] To date, 16 titles have been published as part of the series.
All of his works are now lost. Some fragments exist, as well as titles and subjects of many of his books. Lost works of Proclus. A number of his commentaries on Plato are lost. Lost works of Pyrrhus. He wrote Memoirs and several books on the art of war, all now lost. According to Plutarch, Hannibal was influenced by them and they received ...
A major part of antique Greek [1] [2] and Latin literature was lost during this period, and only a small number of works remained extant to the Early Modern Age. [3] Most of these works are available in Medieval copies, while very few original documents of antiquity were known preserved, until recent discoveries of papyri and parchments. [4]
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