nig2 ga2-e i3-zu-mu u3 za-e in-ga-e-zu

[us4-he2-gal2]

Thread Orientation: This is the enenuru 'list your Mesopotamian magic' resource thread - that is, what do you have on hand today? Assyriological books that treat the subject, translations of incantations or rituals, studies on Mesopotamian demons or divine mediators, theroetical perspectives like those of Binsbergen and Wiggermann - books you own, have borrowed from the library and have access to today, and even PDF files (although often we all have these in common).

nig2 ga2-e i3-zu-mu u3 za-e in-ga-e-zu = "What I know, you may know"
(Enki speaking to his son Asalluhi in a line from the early Udug-hul incantations.)

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us4-he2-gal2's list of

Big Mean Books to Banish a Demon Over

I have sent around a group PM to explain some of the drive for this thread, and it amounts to a desire to apply all the building that's been done at this group and to combine the potential that the current membership and resource equal into a focused study project. If your reading this, you know you've got the aptitude - whose got what books?! The idea is to make a *selected* listing of the books you have on hand today, and it doesn't matter if some of the titles are the same as other people list - in fact that's probably better! I'll go first:

zi an-na he2-pa3, zi ki-a he2-pa3

..... you big bastards... ! 0_0

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Selected Books on hand:

• Forerunners to Udug-Hul: Sumerian Exorcistic Incantations, M. J Geller 1985
  
• Deliver Me from Evil: Mesopotamian Incantation Literature 2500-1500 BC, Graham Cunningham 1997 [ELECTRONIC]
  
• Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection, M.J. Geller and J. A. van Dijk (2003)
  
• Mesopotamian Protective Spirits: the Ritual texts, F.A.M Wiggermann 1992
  
• Born in Heaven, Made on Earth, Michael B. Dick 1999
  
• Shurpu: A Colletion of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations, Erica Reiner 1958 [PDF]
  
• Die Beschworungen aus Fara und Ebla: Untersuchung zur altesten keilschriften Beschworungsliteratur, M. Krebernik 1984 (Borrowed!)
  
• Magical Means of Dealing with Ghosts in Mesopotamia, Jo Ann Scurlock, 1988 (original dissertation, PDF)
  
• ŠA3.ZI.GA Potency Incantations, Robert D. Biggs, 1967
  
• Natural Illness in Babylonian Medical Incantations, T. Collins 1999 (dissertation, PDF)
  

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Still to come..... Whose got what books on hand - this IS a shakedown! 0_0

[galzugaltumu]

There is a new (student) edition of the canonical Udug-hul-incantations by Markham Geller, which was published in the series SAACT (State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts), vol. V

Evil Demons. Canonical Utukkū Lemnūtu Incantations

This book, published in 2007, is a new up-to-date edition with a major disadvantage. Many new texts were obviously incorporated but the reader is not able to see on which tablets a specific line is preserved. There is no index of texts edited. This is very annoying when working longer with this book.

galzugaltumu