'Nail down the tongue': 1,700-year-old lead tablet inscribed with a curse written by magician

Daily Mail ^ | 10-24-13 | Sarah Griffiths

[Dysart]

A 1,700-year-old lead tablet with a violent curse inscribed upon it has been discovered by archaeologists in Jerusalem. Found in a wrecked Roman villa, the 'magical tablet' is thought to have been created by a magician. The curse, written in Greek, which calls for help from six gods to punish a man called Iennys, is believed to play a role in a bitter legal dispute and was ordered by a woman named Kyrilla...

'While the words might be purely metaphorical, it seems more likely that Kyrilla actually used a hammer and nail(s) while carrying out a magical rite designed to enhance the efficacy of the curse,' the study said. Professor Daniel wrote: 'If she hammered and nailed several objects, they might have symbolised the seven items in the list of Iennys’ body parts and behaviours.

[Dysart]

Curse translation:

Come to me, you who are in the earth, chthonic daemon, you who rule and bind, Abrasax; come, Hecate, three-form queen, Ereschigal; come to me, king Pluto, by your great name Yesemmigadon; come to me, chthonic Earth and chthonic Hermes and Pluto and queen Persephone.

I strike and strike down and nail down the tongue, the eyes, the wrath, the ire, the anger, the procrastination, the opposition of Iennys, whom the womb bore, so that he in no way oppose, so that he say or perform nothing adverse to Kyrilla, whom the womb bore, but rather that Iennys, whom the womb bore, be subject to her. Lady Phersephoneia, fulfi ll this perfect spell. (magical signs and letters)

[Hardraade]

Curse on Lenny.

[Dysart]

The linked title details that the tablet was discovered in Jerusalem.

[Dysart]

Yeah, strange too, there’s no mention of Sqiggy and his part in all this.

[Squawk 8888]

So there are still people around who can read cursive.

[DManA]

I’d wish for a million gold coins. Then wouldn’t old Iennys be jealous.

[BipolarBob]

Write it? Heck they can speak it.

[Jeff Chandler]

[HereInTheHeartland]

“May Obamacare be part of you and your household” is what the curse was translated to read.

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

May your children vote Democrat.

[Ezekiel]

Found in a wrecked Roman villa, the 'magical tablet' is thought to have been created by a magician. The curse, written in Greek, which calls for help from six gods to punish a man called Iennys, is believed to play a role in a bitter legal dispute and was ordered by a woman named Kyrilla...

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A translation of the ancient script reads: 'I strike and strike down and nail down the tongue, the eyes, the wrath, the ire, the anger, the procrastination, the opposition of Iennys.'

She asks the gods to make sure that Iennys is 'in no way oppose, so that he say or perform nothing adverse to Kyrilla...but rather that Iennys, whom the womb bore, be subject to her'.

Must have been a popular name for Democrats 'back in the day'...

2 Timothy 3:8-9

1 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

2389 Iannes {ee-an-nace'}
of Egyptian origin; TDNT - 3:192,344; n pr m
AV - Jannes 1; 1
Janna = "he vexed"
1) he and Jambres, were two Egyptian magicians who in the presence of Pharaoh imitated the miracles of Aaron in order to destroy his influence with the king. The author of the epistle derived their names from the tradition of the Talmudists and the Rabbins

[Dysart]

That’s beyond the pale.

[TigersEye]

Not even a Voodoo priest would be that mean.

(a year or two from now that won't sound like a joke)

[MaxMax]

I’ve been cursed my whole life and I learned to use it against others by becoming their friends.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Squawk 8888. Funny thing -- this practice of casting curses on enemies persisted for centuries (actually, in some parts of the world, right up to the current day) and never actually worked, kinda like pointing at a flipping (oldschool) TV picture and yelling "stop!" never worked.

[null and void]

It does on my TV (as long as I make the sacred mash the pause button at the same time)!

Clarke's law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic...

[ApplegateRanch]

kinda like pointing at a flipping (oldschool) TV picture and yelling "stop!" never worked.

Of course it didn't; the pointing negated the whole thing. To stop a rolling picture, or for any other ritual to succeed, the Law of Three must be utilized: Word, Visualization, and Gesture.

In this example, you must use your right hand (the Hand Of Power) to simultaneously deliver an authoritative flat-palm slap to the top of the receiver, on its left (Heart) side, just in front of the rabbit ears, while maintaining a Visualization of a stable picture, when PROJECTING, (not "yelling") "STOP ROLLING!"

So many in today's hectic world tend to forget, when in the dill and the situation is rapidly pickling, that a Word of Power MUST be accompanied by the appropriate Passes to have any, let alone the Vizualized, effect.

In fact, only utilizing "STOP!" while pointing, if it had any effect at all, would be to halt the program entirely, probably either via, if lucky, breaking the tape at the studio; or, if unlucky, blowing a tube--maybe even the picture tube--in your TV set. I happen to know of one case where such a rash act resulted in lightning striking the transmission tower, and putting the station off the air for a week!

In practicing the Art, Discipline is not just important, it is foremost!