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Mandaic charm (1)

Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Ištar (Venus) 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.04 Concept of god (1) 01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism) 01.04.03.06 Seven planetary gods 01.04.03.06.05 Ištar (Venus) Lilith 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.04 Magic and exorcism 05.04.05 Therapeutic magic 05.04.05.02 Exorcism 05.04.05.02.04 Lilith	Keywords incantations Mandeans
Period No period specified	Channel Mandean culture

Summary
Libat derives from the ancient name of Venus, Dilibat.

Text
Mandaic Manuscript 45, 46 (Drower Collection):
Upon you, Dirdbun, I have called by name! Devil that eats the flesh of a corpse and drinks its blood. And upon evil Liliths, and upon N. the evil one that guarded not the great (abscess). Libat, his daughter, make live (i.e. cure) the great abscess of N. Libat, remove (?) it. Amen, amen, selah. S––a. Read this charm over a saffron-dyed egg (seven times) for three days - twenty-one times - and (bury) in a place where no one sees it, and the evil (one) will issue from his stomach.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Mandaic Manuscript 45 (Drower Collection)
Mandaic Manuscript 46 (Drower Collection)

Bibliography

Drower 1943, 154

Drower, E. S. “A Mandaean Book of Black Magic.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1943) 149-181.

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Amar Annus

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