How Chaldeans conjure up magic

This is an incantation ritual and how Chaldeans conjure up magic. These verses are found in Chaldean Magic: It's Origin and Development by Francois Lenormant.

Incantation

The wicked god, the wicked demon,
The demon of the desert, the demon of the mountain,
The demon of the sea, the demon of the marsh,
The evil genius, the enormous uruku,
The bad wind by itself,
The wicked demon which seizes the body,
Which disturbs the body.

Spirit of the Heavens, conjure it!
Spirit of the Earth, conjure it!

The demon who seizes man, the demon who seizes man,
The Gigim who works evil,
The production of a wicked demon,

Spirit of the Heavens, conjure it!
Spirit of the Earth, conjure it!

The consecrated prostitute with the rebellious heart,
Who abandons the place of prostitution,
The prostitute of the god Anna,
Who does not do his service,
To the evening of the beginning of the incomplete month,
The sacred slave who fails to go to his place,
Who does not lacerate his chest,
Who does not...his hand,
Making his chest resound, completing......

Spirit of the Heavens, conjure it!
Spirit of the Earth, conjure it!

That which does not go away,
That which is not propitious,
That which grows up ulcers of a bad kind,
Poignant ulcers,
Enlarged ulcers,
Excoriated ulcers,
Ulcers.......
Ulcers which spread,
Malignant ulcers,

Spirit of the Heavens, conjure it!
Spirit of the Earth, conjure it!

Disease of the bowels,
The disease of the heart,
The palpitation of the diseased heart,
Disease of the vision,
Disease of the head,
Malignant dysentery,
The tumour which swells,
Ulceration of the reins,
The micturation which wastes,
Cruel agony which never ceases,
Nightmare,

Spirit of the Heavens, conjure it!
Spirit of the Earth, conjure it!

He who forges images,
He who bewitches,
The malevolent aspect,
The malevolent tongue,
The malevolent lip,
The finest sorcery,

Spirit of the Heavens, conjure it!
Spirit of the Earth, conjure it!

The nurse,
The nurse who's breast withers,
The nurse who's breast is bitter,
The nurse who's breast becomes ulcerated,
The nurse who dies of the ulceration of her breast,
The woman with child whose embryo splits,
The woman with child whose embryo grows rotten,
The woman with child whose embryo does not prosper,

Spirit of the Heavens, conjure it!
Spirit of the Earth, conjure it!

Painful fever, violent fever,
The fever which never leaves man,
Unremitting fever,
The lingering fever, malignant fever,

Spirit of the Heavens, conjure it!
Spirit of the Earth, conjure it!

Painful plague,
Violent plague,
Plague which never leaves man,
Unremitting plague,
The lingering plague, malignant plague,

Spirit of the Heavens, conjure it!
Spirit of the Earth, conjure it!

........... the incantation verses go on for 28 magical spells.

These verses were encrypted in Accadian text on clay tablets which were found somewhere near Nineveh at the north of Mesopotamia. Accadian or Akkadian language as it is more commonly spelled was a derivative of the earlier Sumerian language. Akkadian made extensive use of cuneiforms. Cuneiform itself is not a language but merely the symbols used in the earliest known languages. Akkadian is considered to be the earliest of the Semitic languages, or AfroAsiatic languages. Other cuneiform based languages evolved including Assyrian, Babylonian, Elamite, Eblaite, Hittite, Hurrian, Utartian, Ugaritic, Old Persian.

Cuneiforms are logograms. They were an evolution of the clay tokens used in accounting between the antidiluvian era and the rise of the first civilizations such as Sumer.

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There are many ways of interpreting these verses and many have tried. Some have gone as far as to claim that he winds of change and disease were actually the effects of nuclear fallout. Just reading the Chaldean incantations might suggest that they are a way of putting a curse on someone else. The exact opposite could also apply where the person who recites these verses on a daily basis is actually using a form of prayer or mild self hypnosis to remind themselves continually that to not obey certain healing laws could lead to any of these atrocious dis-ease conditions. The incantation certainly do seem to spell out the now familiar condition of cancer.

Berossus by Polyhistor

The following is an extract on Berossus by Polyhistor.
While polyhistor is a term which refers to a person who has a vast base of knowledge in this case it refers to a person named Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor who lived in c. 100 BC. Lucius Cornelius was a Roman philosopher, geographer, and historian, amongst other things. He was born in Miletus. According to wikipedia Alexander Polyhistor was born a Greek and became a scholar. He earned the title polyhistor due to his productivity in recording historical events.
The Mithridatic War came along and Alexander was captured and became a Roman slave. He was later sold to Cornelius Lentulus who wanted him as a tutor. From here he earned his freedom and returned to a freedman life as a Roman citizen. He died in a house fire and most of his writings have been lost.
This fragment is called Extract from Berossus by Alexander Polyhistor.

There was a time when all was darkness and water, and from the midst thereof issued spontaneously monstrous animals and the most peculiar figures: men with two wings, and others with four, with two faces or two heads, one of a man, and the other of a woman, on one body, and with the two sexes together; men with goat's legs and goat's horns, or with horses's hoofs; others with the hinder parts of a horse and the foreparts of a man, like the hyppocentaurs. There were, besides, human headed bulls, dogs with four bodies and fishes' tails, horses with dog's heads, animals with the head and body of a horse and the tail of a fish, other quadrupeds in which all sorts of animal shapes were confused together, fishes, reptiles, serpents, and every kind of marvelous monster presenting the greatest variety in their shapes, representations of which may be seen in the paintings of the temple of Belos. A women named Omoroca ( Um-Uruk, " the mother of Uruk"), presided over this creation; in the
Chaldean language she bears the name of Thavatth ( Tiamat ), signifying in Greek " the sea," and she is also identified with the moon.

Things being in this condition, Belos (Bel-Marduk) came upon the scene and cut the women in half; of the lower part of her body he made the earth, and of the upper half he made the heavens, and all the creatures that were in her disappeared. This is a figurative way of explaining the production of the Universe and of the animated beings from humid matter. Belos then cut off his own head, and the other gods having kneaded the blood flowing from it with the earth, formed men, who by that means were gifted with understanding, and made participants of divine thought.

[Thus it was that] Belos, interpreted by the Greeks as signifying Zeus, having divided the darkness, separated the heavens and the earth, and ordered the world : and all the animated beings who were not able to handle the action of light perished. Belos seeing that the earth was a desert, though fertile, commanded one of the Gods to cut off his head, and kneading the blood which flowed with earth, he produced men, as well as those animals who are able to live in contact with the air. - Then Belos also formed the stars, the sun, the moon, and the five planets. - ( Ap. Syncell., p. 29; Euseb., Chronic Armen. [ I., 2, 4], p. 10, ed, Mai ; Fragment 1 of my edition. )

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old map showing mesopotamia and babylonia

The Chaldean were settled near Sumer and were considered to be highly skilled magician or sorcerers. They ruled Babylon for a time after settling the area starting in c. 650 BC.

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This extract is found in a book by Francois Lenormant called The beginnings of History which is public domain and written in the 1880's.

Lenormant was a french Parisian archeologist and assyriologist who followed in his fathers footsteps and who was an Egyptologist.

Another book worthy of thought by Lenormant goes into Chaldean Magic and the ancient history of the east.