• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    11 hours ago

    Unless Ea Nasir was carving scarabs and magic squares on his copper, I don’t think that counts as a magical text.

    I’m aware of the Chaldean Oracles, but they don’t survive in their original language. I think the oldest surviving translations are in Greek or Arabic.