1. Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes, 9.10 (5th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, chthonic aspects Found in books: Renberg (2017) 33 | 9.10. "Whatsoever thy hand attaineth to do by thy strength, that do; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.", |
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2. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 1.25.2-1.25.5, 5.62-5.63 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt •bes and dionysos cult, saqqâra bes chambers Found in books: Renberg (2017) 363, 606 | 1.25.2. Osiris has been given the name Sarapis by some, Dionysus by others, Pluto by others, Ammon by others, Zeus by some, and many have considered Pan to be the same god; and some say that Sarapis is the god whom the Greeks call Pluto. As for Isis, the Egyptians say that she was the discoverer of many health-giving drugs and was greatly versed in the science of healing; 1.25.3. consequently, now that she has attained immortality, she finds her greatest delight in the healing of mankind and gives aid in their sleep to those who call upon her, plainly manifesting both her very presence and her beneficence towards men who ask her help. 1.25.4. In proof of this, as they say, they advance not legends, as the Greeks do, but manifest facts; for practically the entire inhabited world is their witness, in that it eagerly contributes to the honours of Isis because she manifests herself in healings. 1.25.5. For standing above the sick in their sleep she gives them aid for their diseases and works remarkable cures upon such as submit themselves to her; and many who have been despaired of by their physicians because of the difficult nature of their malady are restored to health by her, while numbers who have altogether lost the use of their eyes or of some other part of their body, whenever they turn for help to this goddess, are restored to their previous condition. 5.62. 1. In Castabus, on the Cherronesus, there is a temple which is sacred to Hemithea, and there is no reason why we should omit to mention the strange occurrence which befell this goddess. Now many and various accounts have been handed down regarding her, but we shall recount that which has prevailed and is in accord with what the natives relate. To Staphylus and Chrysothemis were born three daughters, Molpadia, Rhoeo, and Parthenos by name. Apollo lay with Rhoeo and brought her with child; and her father, believing that her seduction was due to a man, was angered, and in his anger he shut up his daughter in a chest and cast her into the sea.,2. But the chest was washed up upon Delos, where she gave birth to a male child and called the babe Anius. And Rhoeo, who had been saved from death in this unexpected manner, laid the babe upon the altar of Apollo and prayed to the god to save its life if it was his child. Thereupon Apollo, the myth relates, concealed the child for the time, but afterwards he gave thought to its rearing, instructed it in divination, and conferred upon it certain great honours.,3. And the other sisters of the maiden who had been seduced, namely, Molpadia and Parthenos, while watching their father's wine, a drink which had only recently been discovered among men, fell asleep; and while they were asleep some swine which they were keeping entered in and broke the jar which contained the wine and so destroyed the wine. And the maidens, when they learned what had happened, in fear of their father's severity fled to the edge of the sea and hurled themselves down from some lofty rocks.,4. But Apollo, because of his affection for their sister, rescued the maidens and established them in the cities of the Cherronesus. The one named Parthenos, as the god brought it to pass, enjoyed honours and a sacred precinct in Bubastus of the Cherronesus, while Molpadia, who came to Castabus, was given the name Hemithea, because the god had appeared to men, and she was honoured by all who dwelt in the Cherronesus.,5. And in sacrifices which are held in her honour a mixture of honey and milk is used in the libations, because of the experience which she had had in connection with the wine, while anyone who has touched a hog or eaten of its flesh is not permitted to draw near to the sacred precinct. 5.63. 1. In later times the temple of Hemithea enjoyed so great a development that not only was it held in special honour by the inhabitants of the place and of neighbouring regions, but even peoples from afar came to it in their devotion and honoured it with costly sacrifices and notable dedications. And most important of all, when the Persians were the domit power in Asia and were plundering all the temples of the Greeks, the precinct of Hemithea was the sole shrine on which they did not lay hands, and the robbers who were pillaging everything they met left this shrine alone entirely unplundered, and this they did despite the fact that it was unwalled and the pillaging of it would have entailed no danger.,2. And the reason which men advance for its continued development is the benefactions which the goddess confers upon all mankind alike; for she appears in visible shape in their sleep to those who are in suffering and gives them healing, and many who are in the grip of diseases for which no remedy is known are restored to health; furthermore, to women who are suffering in childbirth the goddess gives relief from the agony and perils of travail.,3. Consequently, since many have been saved in these ways from most ancient times, the sacred precinct is filled with votive offerings, nor are these protected by guards or by a strong wall, but by the habitual reverence of the people. |
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| 3. Artemidorus, Oneirocritica, 2.70, 4.2, 4.22, 5.92 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, latin invocation for epiphany •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, and proxy incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, chthonic aspects •bes and dionysos cult, oracle preserved in epitaph •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles Found in books: Renberg (2017) 28, 493, 621 |
4. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 18.65-18.80 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles Found in books: Renberg (2017) 579 | 18.65. 4. About the same time also another sad calamity put the Jews into disorder, and certain shameful practices happened about the temple of Isis that was at Rome. I will now first take notice of the wicked attempt about the temple of Isis, and will then give an account of the Jewish affairs. 18.66. There was at Rome a woman whose name was Paulina; one who, on account of the dignity of her ancestors, and by the regular conduct of a virtuous life, had a great reputation: she was also very rich; and although she was of a beautiful countece, and in that flower of her age wherein women are the most gay, yet did she lead a life of great modesty. She was married to Saturninus, one that was every way answerable to her in an excellent character. 18.67. Decius Mundus fell in love with this woman, who was a man very high in the equestrian order; and as she was of too great dignity to be caught by presents, and had already rejected them, though they had been sent in great abundance, he was still more inflamed with love to her, insomuch that he promised to give her two hundred thousand Attic drachmae for one night’s lodging; 18.68. and when this would not prevail upon her, and he was not able to bear this misfortune in his amours, he thought it the best way to famish himself to death for want of food, on account of Paulina’s sad refusal; and he determined with himself to die after such a manner, and he went on with his purpose accordingly. 18.69. Now Mundus had a freed-woman, who had been made free by his father, whose name was Ide, one skillful in all sorts of mischief. This woman was very much grieved at the young man’s resolution to kill himself, (for he did not conceal his intentions to destroy himself from others,) and came to him, and encouraged him by her discourse, and made him to hope, by some promises she gave him, that he might obtain a night’s lodging with Paulina; 18.70. and when he joyfully hearkened to her entreaty, she said she wanted no more than fifty thousand drachmae for the entrapping of the woman. So when she had encouraged the young man, and gotten as much money as she required, she did not take the same methods as had been taken before, because she perceived that the woman was by no means to be tempted by money; but as she knew that she was very much given to the worship of the goddess Isis, she devised the following stratagem: 18.71. She went to some of Isis’s priests, and upon the strongest assurances [of concealment], she persuaded them by words, but chiefly by the offer of money, of twenty-five thousand drachmae in hand, and as much more when the thing had taken effect; and told them the passion of the young man, and persuaded them to use all means possible to beguile the woman. 18.72. So they were drawn in to promise so to do, by that large sum of gold they were to have. Accordingly, the oldest of them went immediately to Paulina; and upon his admittance, he desired to speak with her by herself. When that was granted him, he told her that he was sent by the god Anubis, who was fallen in love with her, and enjoined her to come to him. 18.73. Upon this she took the message very kindly, and valued herself greatly upon this condescension of Anubis, and told her husband that she had a message sent her, and was to sup and lie with Anubis; so he agreed to her acceptance of the offer, as fully satisfied with the chastity of his wife. 18.74. Accordingly, she went to the temple, and after she had supped there, and it was the hour to go to sleep, the priest shut the doors of the temple, when, in the holy part of it, the lights were also put out. Then did Mundus leap out, (for he was hidden therein,) and did not fail of enjoying her, who was at his service all the night long, as supposing he was the god; 18.75. and when he was gone away, which was before those priests who knew nothing of this stratagem were stirring, Paulina came early to her husband, and told him how the god Anubis had appeared to her. Among her friends, also, she declared how great a value she put upon this favor, 18.76. who partly disbelieved the thing, when they reflected on its nature, and partly were amazed at it, as having no pretense for not believing it, when they considered the modesty and the dignity of the person. 18.77. But now, on the third day after what had been done, Mundus met Paulina, and said, “Nay, Paulina, thou hast saved me two hundred thousand drachmae, which sum thou sightest have added to thy own family; yet hast thou not failed to be at my service in the manner I invited thee. As for the reproaches thou hast laid upon Mundus, I value not the business of names; but I rejoice in the pleasure I reaped by what I did, while I took to myself the name of Anubis.” 18.78. When he had said this, he went his way. But now she began to come to the sense of the grossness of what she had done, and rent her garments, and told her husband of the horrid nature of this wicked contrivance, and prayed him not to neglect to assist her in this case. So he discovered the fact to the emperor; 18.79. whereupon Tiberius inquired into the matter thoroughly by examining the priests about it, and ordered them to be crucified, as well as Ide, who was the occasion of their perdition, and who had contrived the whole matter, which was so injurious to the woman. He also demolished the temple of Isis, and gave order that her statue should be thrown into the river Tiber; 18.80. while he only banished Mundus, but did no more to him, because he supposed that what crime he had committed was done out of the passion of love. And these were the circumstances which concerned the temple of Isis, and the injuries occasioned by her priests. I now return to the relation of what happened about this time to the Jews at Rome, as I formerly told you I would. |
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| 5. New Testament, 2 Peter, 41255 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 506 |
| 6. New Testament, 2 Timothy, 8, 1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Renberg (2017) 544, 545 |
| 7. Lucian, Alexander The False Prophet, 49 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles Found in books: Renberg (2017) 28 |
| 8. Aelian, Nature of Animals, 11.39 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles Found in books: Renberg (2017) 28 |
| 9. Vettius Valens, Anthologies, 4.15 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt Found in books: Renberg (2017) 363 |
| 10. Aelius Aristides, Orations, 28.132, 42.6, 48.18 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt •bes and dionysos cult, latin invocation for epiphany •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, and proxy incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, chthonic aspects •bes and dionysos cult, oracle preserved in epitaph Found in books: Renberg (2017) 363, 493 |
| 11. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 4.11-4.14, 4.123-4.124, 7.222-7.249, 7.628-7.642, 7.703-7.726, 8.64-8.110, 102.1-102.17 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, apotropaic function •bes and dionysos cult, dream-divination rituals in the magical papyri Found in books: Renberg (2017) 434, 485, 486, 492, 496, 506 |
| 12. Libanius, Orations, 1.143 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt Found in books: Renberg (2017) 363 |
13. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 19.12.3-19.12.4 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, latin invocation for epiphany •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, and priestly incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, and proxy incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, chthonic aspects •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles •bes and dionysos cult, oracle preserved in epitaph •bes and dionysos cult, survival of cult as christus-bes •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt Found in books: Renberg (2017) 486, 493, 494, 506 | 19.12.3. Moreover, a slight and trivial occasion gave opportunity to extend his inquisitions indefinitely. There is a town called Abydum, situated in the remotest part of the Thebais A nome, or province, of Egypt. ; here the oracle of a god called in that place Besa in days of old revealed the future and was wont to be honoured in the ancient ceremonials of the adjacent regions. 19.12.4. And since some in person, a part through others, by sending a written list of their desires, So also at the temple of Jupiter at Baalbek. inquired the will of the deities after definitely stating their requests, the papers or parchments containing their petitions sometimes remained in the shrine even after the replies had been given. |
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| 14. Marinus, Vita Proclus, 26 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, latin invocation for epiphany •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, and proxy incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, chthonic aspects •bes and dionysos cult, oracle preserved in epitaph •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt Found in books: Renberg (2017) 493 |
| 15. Epigraphy, I.Gréglouvre, 92 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 485 |
| 17. Epigraphy, Chrest.Wilck., 117 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles Found in books: Renberg (2017) 579 |
| 18. Papyri, Vleeming, Short Texts I, 250 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 485 |
| 19. Pseudo-Callisthenes, Historia Alexandri Magni, 1.4-1.7 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles Found in books: Renberg (2017) 579 |
20. Strabo, Geography, 17.1.44 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 486 | 17.1.44. At Abydos Osiris is worshipped; but in the temple of Osiris no singer, nor player on the pipe, nor on the cithara, is permitted to perform at the commencement of the ceremonies celebrated in honour of the god, as is usual in rites celebrated in honour of the other gods. Next to Abydos is the lesser Diospolis, then the city Tentyra, where the crocodile is held in peculiar abhorrence, and is regarded as the most odious of all animals. For the other Egyptians, although acquainted with its mischievous disposition, and hostility towards the human race, yet worship it, and abstain from doing it harm. But the people of Tentyra track and destroy it in every way. Some however, as they say of the Psyllians of Cyrenaea, possess a certain natural antipathy to snakes, and the people of Tentyra have the same dislike to crocodiles, yet they suffer no injury from them, but dive and cross the river when no other person ventures to do so. When crocodiles were brought to Rome to be exhibited, they were attended by some of the Tentyritae. A reservoir was made for them with a sort of stage on one of the sides, to form a basking-place for them on coming out of the water, and these persons went into the water, drew them in a net to the place, where they might sun themselves and be exhibited, and then dragged them back again to the reservoir. The people of Tentyra worship Venus. At the back of the fane of Venus is a temple of Isis ; then follow what are called the Typhoneia, and the canal leading to Coptos, a city common both to the Egyptians and Arabians. |
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| 21. Ostaraka, O.Brook., None Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 497 |
| 22. Epigraphy, Ricis Suppl., None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan |
| 23. Papyri, P.Brookl.Dem., 9 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 497 |
| 24. Papyri, P.Carlsb., 14.628-14.629 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 485, 486, 492 |
| 25. Papyri, P.Lond., 3.854 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles Found in books: Renberg (2017) 579 |
| 26. Papyri, P.Götterbriefe, 12 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, saqqâra bes chambers Found in books: Renberg (2017) 606 |
| 27. Papyri, P.Cairo Cg, 10313 + 10328 + 30961 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 506 |
| 28. Epigraphy, Krakow, M.N., None Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, latin invocation for epiphany •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 497, 621 |
| 29. Epigraphy, Ig Xii.3, Suppl., 1350 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, latin invocation for epiphany •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, and proxy incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, chthonic aspects •bes and dionysos cult, oracle preserved in epitaph •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt Found in books: Renberg (2017) 493 |
30. Vergil, Aeneis, 7.89-7.91 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, chthonic aspects Found in books: Renberg (2017) 33 | 7.89. To the same region by the self-same path 7.90. behold an arm'd host taking lordly sway 7.91. upon our city's crown!” Soon after this, |
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| 31. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 16, 18-19, 17 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Renberg (2017) 606 |
| 32. Epigraphy, Amph.-Orop. 3), 50.1562 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, and priestly incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, and proxy incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, apotropaic function •bes and dionysos cult, dream-divination rituals in the magical papyri •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles •bes and dionysos cult, survival of cult as christus-bes Found in books: Renberg (2017) 494, 496 |
| 33. Epigraphy, I.Metreg, 131, 133-135, 170, 167 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Renberg (2017) 621 |
| 34. Epigraphy, Ricis, 113/0545, 202/1101, 302/0204 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Renberg (2017) 363 |
| 35. Ancient Near Eastern Sources, Gilgamesh, Tablet, 4.41 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, latin invocation for epiphany Found in books: Renberg (2017) 621 |
| 36. Ancient Near Eastern Sources, Gudea, Cylinder A, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan nan |
| 37. Ancient Near Eastern Sources, Saa Iii, None Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, chthonic aspects •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles Found in books: Renberg (2017) 28, 33 |
| 38. Artifact, Abdalla, Funerary Stelae, 189, 59 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Renberg (2017) 485 |
| 39. Anon., Theosophia Tubingensis, 24 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, latin invocation for epiphany •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, and proxy incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, chthonic aspects •bes and dionysos cult, oracle preserved in epitaph •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt Found in books: Renberg (2017) 493 |
| 40. Epigraphy, Ae, 836493, 1982 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan |
| 41. Epigraphy, Colosse De Memnon, 106, 114, 156-157, 185, 238, 274, 419, 488-489, 493, 503, 505, 524, 528, 535, 545-546, 580, 630-631, 641, 74, 500 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Renberg (2017) 363, 495, 496, 579 |
| 42. Epigraphy, Deir El-Bahari, None Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 506 |
| 43. Epigraphy, Ik Kyme, 41 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt Found in books: Renberg (2017) 363 |
| 44. Epigraphy, Mdai(A), 102, 39 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan |
| 45. Epigraphy, Philae, 8 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, saqqâra bes chambers Found in books: Renberg (2017) 606 |
| 46. Epigraphy, Seg, 2.530, 18.699 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, latin invocation for epiphany •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, and proxy incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, chthonic aspects •bes and dionysos cult, oracle preserved in epitaph •bes and dionysos cult, worship beyond egypt Found in books: Renberg (2017) 485, 493 |
| 47. Papyri, P.Murabba'T, 1.169 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos Found in books: Renberg (2017) 485 |
| 48. Epigraphy, Supplmag, 2.9 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, and divinatory incubation at abydos •bes and dionysos cult, apotropaic function •bes and dionysos cult, dream-divination rituals in the magical papyri Found in books: Renberg (2017) 496 |
| 50. Papyri, P.Sarap., 101 Tagged with subjects: •bes and dionysos cult, issuer of oracles and dream-oracles Found in books: Renberg (2017) 579 |
