TY  - BOOK
AU  - Audureau,Florian
TI  - Singing the vowels in the Papyri Graecae Magicae during the Roman Empire. From ritual practice to the modern invention of a tradition
PY  - 2022///.
							
N1  - 84
N2  - At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was a cliché circulating according to which magicians were also experts in astrology. Some were reported to have used music to summon astrological powers through the planets, based on a Pythagorean tradition, and the vowels that we find in the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri were said to record the musical scale. Yet this “tradition” is primarily a matter of historiography and does not match with the practices and dynamics of cultural accommodation. A detailed analysis of the corpus reveals that the astrological interpretation does not derive from a Greek philosophical tradition but is rather a specific and targeted invention. It is therefore necessary to look at this practice from an emic perspective: vowels are occasionally linked with planets but they essentially stand for the power of breathing (πνεῦμα) and its capacity to produce sounds
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-de-l-histoire-des-religions-2021-4-page-617?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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