Themis, a study of the social origins of Greek ... - Warburg Institute

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Magic
are reproduced in Fig. IS make, it ell clear. In («)
mimitive waggon, just two wheels with a cross pole-on
[ CH -
we have a
it an
Chore doutle. filled with water. The coin is not earlier than
400 B.C and the shape of the high-handled amphora is late b»
the primitive wheels show that an old type is revived. ^W
the wneels are just rude pierced disks on whrch are perched the
*H5£lZ5 ££T- have then as the device of the
eityT-S-), - a traditional ceremony, pubhc,—
Magic was no hole and corner practice-
Q rnlical ceremony for the making of ram. This is a tact; 01
a magica [ ^Le
service K u P
/
paatiuica) .in a word
;
Sl^thl "o/the individual. What e*actly is this
public social magic ?
In the light of the three last chapters the nature and origin
of magic is not hard to realize. First and foremost magic » a
of magic is
raiQ .m aker jingles his rattle and
Sin. w Z,litt *« something. Language- here speaks
dear v enough The Latin factura is magical 'making,' witchcraft,
doing' and magic the Greek £«£». SXis
wta- > connected wlth " f^ doin< , which we ca ll speaking;
The doing is sometimes that toim ol aoin w
t hp Hebrew
7„„ the Greek enchanter, is but a specialized howlei ,
dabar does not distinguish between word and deed.
kind the action, the essence of magic is
I'll do, and I'll do, and I'll do.
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