Why do you never talk about what you're reading? Me:

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• AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Source please!

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• schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I once had a friend that insisisted his copy of the Necronomicon started flying around the room by himself. He insisted I gave him my copy so he could destroy them both in a fire.

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  • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That which is dead cannot die.

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  • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No comment.

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  • gnufuu@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He insisted I gave him my copy so he could destroy them both in a fire.

    This kills the Universe

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    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That would explain a lot.

      I’m pretty sure the last 40 years of my life have been the Jacob’s Ladder-style hallucinations of a dead man.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “I don’t care what Olivia is reading, I’m just glad she’s reading.”

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• Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ll take this. When we talk about daemons, these are often helpful spirits.

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• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I'd like to find a translation of that Arabian manuscript, forget the name atm.

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  • Magister@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Written by Abdul Alhazred?

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can't remember.

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s just mostly self-help and DIY stuff.

  Most of what I read is lemmy comments and blog posts, I think your reading list makes for better conversation. Also, most of the content I read is in a language that I don’t use in face-to-face conversations, which makes it a bit awkward to talk about it.

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• schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does it have any resonances with alchemy? Are people doing Jungian delving via ceremonies? Is this book about ACTUAL ancient demonology, or is it a Theosophy-era imaginative creation set in Ancient Egypt?

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    "In the Egyptian context, what we term magic and demon, drawing on our own cultural heritage, are not seen as negative aspects of cultural practice and conceptualisation. Similarly, the Egyptian equivalents do not carry the pejorative connotations borne by the modern terms and their Greek antecedents; magic and demons can be forces for good as well as evil. Indeed, the practice of magic and the conceptualisation of personified demonic agents are central to the Egyptian understanding of the workings of the world from the very continuation of the cosmos itself down to the vicissitudes of existence faced by individuals.

    "In particular, the broader practice of magic and articulation of the involvement of demonic agency form one of the crucial links in Ancient Egypt between individual existence on the human level and the level of nature or the cosmos, the realm of the gods. Unlike, though, the explicit recognition of the term demon in the ancient Greek language and religion, as the intermediary between god and mortals, the majority of the demonic names in the Egyptian literature do not possess an apparent ontological essence, or a clearly defined denotation. Their characteristics and role depended momentously on the verbal and performative ritual environment they were part of. The relation between the name of a demon and its cosmic-natural personification is not contradictory as it may seem, but it is closely interwoven in a well established ritual framework of words and actions.

    "This multi-authored volume of 10 essays comprises an up-to-date authorized account of many aspects of ancient Egyptian demonology, including the multiple persona of the demonic or name vs. identity in the Egyptian formation of the demonic, nightmares and underworld demons, dream rituals and magic, categories of demonic entities and the vague distinction between the divine and the demonic in Egyptian cosmology and ritual, the theological and demonic aspects of Egyptian magic, and demons as reflections of human society.

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  • zloubida@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a very serious academic publisher.

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  • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t demonology-gatekeep me pls.

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    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No. You kids and your TikTok and lazy demonology are going too far. Just yesterday there was a goddamn portal open to one of the more superficial layers of The Abyss right in the yogurt section of my local Stop & Shop. Surely it was some 3-year-old in a shopping cart mumbling along to The Lesser Keys of Solomon their mother handed them on their iPad. I had to steal some saffron and cloves from the store to close it, only to find out that the only greek yogurt available was the flavored kind.

      I am done.

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It's not either/or.

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    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, I mean, it’s primarily a work of history or it isn’t. It’s fine–all religions are equally valid and invalid, whether ancient or new.

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• gnufuu@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  First rule of Ancient Egyptian Demonology

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Is that ‘We chat quite a bit about Ancient Egyptian Demonology’?

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• QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Link?

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  • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    send me a dm

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• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The title is funny, it’s a bit like saying ancient Egyptian semiconductors.

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