Chaldean Magic: Its Origin and Development

Chaldean Magic: Its Origin and Development

François Lenormant

London : S. Bagster and Sons

1877

Chapter I. The magic and sorcery of the Chaldeans -- Chapter II. The Chaldean demonology -- Chapter III. Chaldean amulets and their uses -- Chapter IV. Chaldean sorcery and its dual nature -- Chapter V. Comparison of the Egyptian with the Chaldean magic -- Chapter VI. Contrasts between Egyptian and Chaldean magic systems -- Chapter VII. The magic of the ritual of the dead -- Chapter VIII. Contrasts between Accadian and Egyptian magic -- Chapter IX. The Chaldaio-Babylonian religion and its doctrines -- Chapter X. Development of the Chaldean mythology -- Chapter XI. The religious system of the Accadian magic books -- Chapter XII. The origin of the myth of the Zi -- Chapter XIII. The mythology of the underworld -- Chapter XIV. The religions and the magic of the Turanian nations -- Chapter XV. The early median mythology compared with that of the Chaldeans -- Chapter XVI. Finno-Tartarian magical mythology -- Chapter XVII. Further analysis of Finnish demonology -- Chapter XVIII. The Accadian people and their language -- Chapter XIX. The Accadian language -- Chapter XX. Differentiation of the Accadian and its allied languages -- Chapter XXI. Altaic affinities of the Accadian language -- Chapter XXII. Accadian and Altaic affinities -- Chapter XXIII. Phonology of the Accadian language -- Chapter XXIV. The origin of the Kushito-Semitic religion -- Chapter XXV. The two ethnic elements in the Babylonian nation -- Chapter XXVI. The origin of the Chaldaio-Babylonian cosmogonies -- Chapter XXVII. The priority of the Accadian population of Chaldea -- Chapter XXVIII. The Sumirian influence in Chaldean and Babylonian civilization -- Chapter XXIX. The influence of the Kushite mythology in Chaldean faith -- Chapter XXX. The Turanians in Chaldea and ancient Asia -- Chapter XXXI. The archaic legislation of the Accadians.

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