Ideas of Possession in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
Ideas of Possession October 29, 2024 Ulrike Steinert, Jonathan (Jonny) Russell
Abstract This contribution adds to anthropological and historical studies on spirit possession with textual sources from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, asking to what extent concepts of possession can be grasped in these two cultures and whether these concepts resemble each other in any systematic way. The discussion focuses on exemplary cases of “negative” possession encountered in healing...