Title: Healing Magic and Evil Demons. Canonical Udug-hul Incantations
Description: This book brings together ancient manuscripts of the large compendium of Mesopotamian exorcistic incantations known as Udug.hul (Utukku Lemnutu), directed against evil demons, ghosts, gods, and other demonic malefactors within the Mesopotamian view of the world.It allows for a more accurate appraisal of variants arising from a text tradition spread over more than two millennia and from many ancient libraries.
Subjects: Middle Eastern history, Social & cultural history, Archaeology by period / region, Healing, Incantations, Sumerian Incantations, Exorcism, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric, Magic, Assyro-Babylonian, Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian, Rites and ceremonies, Civilization, assyro-babylonian, Iraq, social conditions