Researches are translating an ancient Egyptian 'erotic binding spell'

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Scholars are translating an 1,800-year-old Egyptian papyrus describing what scholars call an "erotic binding spell," in which a woman named Taromeway tries to attract a man named Kephalas. 

On the papyrus, a drawing shows the Egyptian jackal-headed god Anubis shooting an arrow into Kephalas, who is depicted nude. The arrow Anubis shoots is intended to inflame Kephalas' lust for Taromeway, researchers say.

"His emphasized penis and scrotum surely are intentional as the 'male organs' she specifically wants to pursue her," said Robert Ritner, an Egyptology professor at the University of Chicago who is translating the spell. 

The spell makes astronomical allusions, at one point calling upon Kephalas to traverse Ursa Major, a constellation that never sets below the horizon, until he is "wandering after [Taromeway] while there is no other woman on Earth whom he desires, as he madly pursues her."

Other so-called erotic binding spells are known from ancient Egypt, although they were more commonly used by men seeking women, wrote Ritner and Foy Scalf, the head of research archives at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. Ritner and Foy described their ongoing translation of the spell in an article that was published recently in the journal Göttinger Miszellen. 

It’s unknown why Taromeway wanted Kephalas so badly or whether she actually got him. "Taromeway must have been both motivated and with some disposable means," Ritner told Live Science, noting that Taromeway likely paid an expert, such as a priest, to write the spell. 

Source: https://www.livescience.com/egyptian-erotic-binding-spell.html

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I hope Ari Aster’s next horror movie is about ancient Egypt. It’ll be so interesting.

[Flippy 14,306]

Oooooh! Can I read it once it's fully translated?

[CautiousLurker 19,709]

Lemme know if it works, I might need it 

[Helxig 45,383]

Can they hurry up and translate this already? This could be my ticket to finally sorting out my non-existent love life