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Author Lenormant, François, 1837-1883.

Title Chaldean magic : its origin and development / Francois Lenormant
Published London ; New York : Kegan Paul, 2004
New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 414, 18 pages)
Series Kegan Paul library of Arcana
Kegan Paul library of arcana.
Contents Cover; CHALDEAN MAGIC: Its Origin and Development; Copyright; CONTENTS; THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE; EDITOR'S PREFACE; CHAPTER I. The Magic and Sorcery of the Chaldeans; CHAPTER II. The Chaldean Demonology; CHAPTER III. Chaldean Amulets and their Uses; CHAPTER IV. Chaldean Sorcery and its Dual Nature; CHAPTER V.Comparison of the Egyptian with the Chaldean magic; CHAPTER VI. Contrasts between Egyptian and Chaldean Magical Systems; CHAPTER VII. The Magic of the Ritual of the Dead; CHAPTER VIII. Contrasts between the Accadian and Egyptian magic; CHAPTER IX. The Chaldao Babylonian religion and its doctrines
CHAPTER X. Development of the Chaldean MythologyCHAPTER XI. The religious System of the Accadian magic Books; CHAPTER XII. The Origin of the Myth of the Zi; CHAPTER XIII. The Mythology of the Underworld; CHAPTER XIV. The Religions and the Magic of the Turanian Nations; CHAPTER XV. The Early Median Mythology compared with that of the Chaldeans; CHAPTER XVI. Finno-Tartarian Magical Mythology; CHAPTER XVII. Further Analysis of Finnish Demonology; CHAPTER XVIII. The Accadian People and their Language; CHAPTER XIX. The Accadian Language; CHAPTER XX. Differentiation of the Accadian and its allied Languages
CHAPTER XXI. Altaic affinities of the Accadian LanguageCHAPTER XXII. Accadian and Altaic affiinities; CHAPTER XXIII. Phonology of the Accadian Language; CHAPTER XXIV. The onrigin of the Kushito-Semitic religion; CHAPTER XXV. The two Ethnic elements in the Babylonian nation; CHAPTER XXVI. The Origin of the Chaldaio-Babylonian Cosmogonies; CHAPTER XXVII. The Priority of the Accadian Population of Chaldea; CHAPTER XXVIII. The Sumirian Influence in Chaldean and Babylonian Civilization; CHAPTER XXIX. The Influence of the Kushite Mythology in Chaldean Faith
CHAPTER XXX. The Turanians in Chaldea and ancient AsiaCHAPTER XXXI. The Archaic Legislation of the Accadians; APPEND IX: Sumir and Accad; INDEX
Summary First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Magic, Assyro-Babylonian.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
Magic, Assyro-Babylonian
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135780487
113578048X
Other Titles Magie chez les Chaldéens. English