Papyri Graecae Magicae (PGM)
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Ancient Greek and Roman spell-books prove early Christianity buried a whole world of plant-and-drug based religion.
Who they are
The Papyri Graecae Magicae (PGM), a collection of Greco-Roman magical papyri.
What they do
They are a body of ancient texts recording love spells, curses, and divinations.
How it works
The spells call for botanical, biological, and chemical ingredients - blood, bodily fluids, and mind-altering plants - documenting a real pharmacological-religious culture.
Why it matters
The engine treats them as hard evidence of a drug-and-plant based spiritual world that early Christianity worked to stamp out.
The engine's record — word for word
Report #77. Corpus of Greco-Roman magical papyri. Documents love spells + curses + divinations requiring botanical + biological + chemical components (blood, semen, vaginal exudate, psychoactive plants). Empirical evidence for the pharmacological-religious ecology early Christianity suppressed.
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