material · 27 entities
Heals
Cures sickness, blindness and wounds.
Held by
- Disputed19
- Celestial4
- Infernal3
- Fallen1
Attributed across 8 cultures
Which spirits are credited with it?
Each card names the texts that make the attribution. Where several texts credit the same figure with the same office, that is worth more than any one of them saying so alone.
Apollo
Greek
Armaros
Artemis
Greek
Bastet
Egyptian
Brigid
Celtic
Buer
Enki
Mesopotamian
Hathor
Egyptian
Heka
Egyptian
Heqet
Egyptian
Isis
Egyptian
Khnum
Egyptian
Khonsu
Egyptian
Marbas
Nehushtan
Nephthys
Egyptian
Nuada
Celtic
Nüwa
Chinese
Obatala
Yoruba
Raphael
Rudra
Vedic
Sekhmet
Egyptian
Seraphim
Purgation of Isaiah's lips with the coal.
Serqet
Egyptian
Taweret
Egyptian
Virtues
Xiwangmu
Chinese
The texts that attribute this power
Oldest first. An office claimed by one late grimoire and an office claimed across two thousand years are different kinds of claim.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Anonymous; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge · c. 1550 BCE onward · Egyptian
Read The Egyptian Book of the Dead in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Hunefer · Wikimedia file page
Egyptian Amulets & Domestic Objects
Anonymous; recovered from settlements and burials · c. 2000 BCE onward · Material evidence
Read Egyptian Amulets & Domestic Objects in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Roland Unger · Wikimedia file page
Rigveda
Anonymous; multiple rishi families · c. 1500-1200 BCE · Vedic Sanskrit
Read Rigveda in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Unknown author · Wikimedia file page
Egyptian Hymns, Stelae & Temple Inscriptions
Various; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge and others · c. 2000 BCE - 300 BCE · Egyptian
Read Egyptian Hymns, Stelae & Temple Inscriptions in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France · Wikimedia file page
Enuma Elish
Anonymous Babylonian · c. 1100 BCE · Akkadian
Read Enuma Elish in full ↗Cover: Public domain · editor Austen Henry Layard , drawing by L. Gruner · Wikimedia file page
Theogony & Works and Days
Hesiod · c. 700 BCE · Ancient Greek
Read Theogony & Works and Days in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Hesiod · Wikimedia file page
The Histories, Book II
Herodotus; tr. G. C. Macaulay · c. 430 BCE · Ancient Greek
Read The Histories, Book II in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Unknown · Wikimedia file page
Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon
Various · c. 900–100 BCE · Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
Read Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon in full ↗Cover: Public domain · see en:Aleppo Codex; scanned by · Wikimedia file page
1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch)
Anonymous; tr. R. H. Charles · c. 300–100 BCE · Ge'ez (from Aramaic)
Read 1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Wikimedia file page
Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas)
Anonymous · 4th c. BCE - 2nd c. CE · Classical Chinese
Read Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · National Library of China · Wikimedia file page
De Coelesti Hierarchia (The Celestial Hierarchy)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite · c. 500 CE · Greek
Read De Coelesti Hierarchia (The Celestial Hierarchy) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Unknown author · Wikimedia file page
Lebor Gabála Érenn & the Mythological Cycle
Anonymous Irish monastics · 11th c., from older oral material · Middle Irish
Read Lebor Gabála Érenn & the Mythological Cycle in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Áed Ua Crimthainn et al (12th century) · Wikimedia file page
The Odu Ifá
Oral; transmitted by babalawo · Oral tradition, first transcribed 19th-20th c. · Yoruba
Read The Odu Ifá in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Toluaye · Wikimedia file page
The Lesser Key of Solomon, Book I: Ars Goetia
Anonymous; ed. S. L. MacGregor Mathers & A. E. Waite · 17th c.; ed. 1904 · English (from Latin)
Read The Lesser Key of Solomon, Book I: Ars Goetia in full ↗Cover: Public domain · anonymous design, redrawn by User:Fuzzypeg · Wikimedia file page