Isis-Werethekau (?)
Sep. 8th, 2012 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ikhet_sekhmetAnother medical spell (Papyrus Ebers paragraph 2) pleads: "Oh Isis-Werethekau, may you release me, may you liberate me from anything bad (bjn), evil (dw) or harmful (dšr); from the influence of a god, the influence of a goddess; from the dead man or dead woman; from an opponent or an opponent woman", and so forth. My question is - is this a syncretised or equated Isis and Werethekau, or is the spell calling Isis "the great enchantress"? (Hmmm, maybe it's possible to work it out from the determinatives.)
ETA: Or maybe it's not. (Actually, I'm having weird deja vu about this question. ETA: Oh yeah.)
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Győry, Hedvig. "Some Aspects of Magic in Egyptian Medicine". in Kousoulis, P. (ed). Ancient Egyptian Demonology: studies on the boundaries between the demonic and the divine in Egyptian magic (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 175). Leuven ; Walpole, Mass. : Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2011. p 152.
ETA: Or maybe it's not. (Actually, I'm having weird deja vu about this question. ETA: Oh yeah.)
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Győry, Hedvig. "Some Aspects of Magic in Egyptian Medicine". in Kousoulis, P. (ed). Ancient Egyptian Demonology: studies on the boundaries between the demonic and the divine in Egyptian magic (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 175). Leuven ; Walpole, Mass. : Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2011. p 152.
