{"id":11915,"date":"2014-07-09T10:11:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T07:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=11915"},"modified":"2014-07-09T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T07:11:23","slug":"encyclopaedia-of-ancient-egyptian-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/09\/encyclopaedia-of-ancient-egyptian-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Encyclopaedia of ancient Egyptian demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/scientists-research-first-ever-egyptian-devils-2022827\">Encyclopaedia of ancient Egyptian demons<\/a><\/em>, coming soon(ish) from the UK, via a &#8220;Leverhulme Trust grant worth \u00a3158,000&#8221;.  The organisers say that&#8230; &#8220;no such resource currently exists&#8221;.  Hopefully the finished work will be open access.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting to learn about the ancient world&#8217;s tradition of &#8220;dream-sending&#8221; which was apparently strongest in Ancient Egypt, where almost every book of magic has spells and suchlike for doing so.  Possibly relevant to Lovecraft&#8217;s idea for the &#8220;dream-calling&#8221; of Cthulhu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/luven_keraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/luven_keraph.jpg?w=212\" alt=\"luven_keraph\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11916\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Luven-Kerapht, High-Priest of Bastet&#8221;, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elfwood.com\/~loneanimator\">Richard Svensson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encyclopaedia of ancient Egyptian demons, coming soon(ish) from the UK, via a &#8220;Leverhulme Trust grant worth \u00a3158,000&#8221;. The organisers say &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/09\/encyclopaedia-of-ancient-egyptian-demons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}