The Greek Magical Papyri (PGM)
← all texts · Egyptian · c. 100 BCE – 400 CE
What this is
A corpus of spells, hymns and ritual recipes from Greco-Roman Egypt — syncretic magic blending Egyptian, Greek, Jewish and Gnostic names of power. The single richest source for how ancient ritual magic was actually practiced.
Highlighted names link to their entry in the encyclopedia.
Companion reading path
What to read alongside it, and why.
The Corpus Hermeticum
Gnostic & Hermetic
The philosophical counterpart from the same Greco-Egyptian milieu.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Egyptian
The deep Egyptian substrate whose gods the papyri invoke.