BYSiti Nadzirah Binti Md Supar

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Definition of Magic"The practice of using charms, spells, or rituals to attempt to produce supernatural events or to control events in nature."(The American Heritage Dictionary )

Magic = Heka

Magician

Wands

Ritual purity

Menstruating women

Bathe Wear clean

clothes

Action Semi-circular ivory wands

Spell

Word Metal wand

Lector priest

USES OF HEKA

Amulet Dream

& prophecyHealing The

Dead

• used for the prediction of the future

• Example: dream interpretation taken from the Chester Beatty III papyrus (manuscript) ;

"Seeing his face in a mirror, bad: it means another wife

"Burying an old man, good: it means flourishing

• Spells help to cure snake bites

• Story: Horus is poisoned by his enemies and how Isis, his mother, pleaded for her son's life, until the sun god, Ra sent Thoth(son of Ra) to cure him. The story ends with the promise that anyone who is suffering will be healed, as Horus was healed.

• All Egyptians; to preserve their bodies and souls in the afterlife

• "Pyramid Texts" since they were inscribed on the walls of the pyramids. Osiris first appears in these texts as the lord of the dead.

• dead person's soul, usually shown as a bird with a human head and arms