Canaanite Magic and Divination - Ugaritic Texts on Healing, Astrology, the Evil Eye & Hangovers!

The ancient myths, rituals and magic of the ancient Canaanites spent millennia known only through an Israelite lens, darkly. That is, in large part, until the discovery of the ancient lost city of Ugarit and the cuneiform tablets preserved in the fires that doomed the city as part of the Bronze Age Collapse. In this episode, I'll be exploring the precious remains of the divinatory and incantation texts which provide us a glimpse into the rituals by which these ancient Canaanites sought to peer into the future, counter evil magic and even cure a divine hangover!
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Coogan & Smith - Stories from Ancient Canaan - 978-0664232429
Gregorio del Olmo Lete - Incantations and Anti-Witchcraft Texts from Ugarit - 978-1614516279
Pardee - Ritual and Cult at Ugarit - 978-1589830264

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Will you perhaps consider uploading an in depth/highly detailed analysis, research and background texts behind the language of Mesopotamia, (and its linguistics/how each letter/word may have sounded), as so forth I’ve sadly only found a few excerpts “if that”online, and it’s really jarring! However thank you ESOTERICA for all that you do input wise and creating a platform of solid/thorough knowledge of a plethora of poly-topics/subjects X

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@@BenedictaXValentina I'm not an ane linguist and, to my knowledge, there's no agreement on the vocalization of many ancient languages including Ugaritic. Hence the texts are presented with only the consonants in this case.

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Hoping you and your family are all on the mend and feeling better now.

[@EveritteBarbee]

"Compared to the anti-Canaanite propaganda from the Hebrew Bible". Once again, Dr. Sledge slaps those tough truth grits down onto griddle! I'm buckled up, I can tell this is gonna be a good one! And I get to enjoying this from the northern shores of Cannaan, here in Beirut no less!

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Ha! You're only about 3.5 hours from ras shamra!

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@@TheEsotericaChannel I know right? I wish I'd gone when I lived in Syria. In 2009, I actually got to see the tiny tablet from there containing the first "alphabet" in cuneiform that you mentioned, in the Museum of Damascus. They had it displayed behind a giant magnifying glass because it was so tiny. Kinda trippy something so miniscule can have such an enormous global legacy.

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I always wanted to go to the levant

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Snakebite, scorpion sting, evil eye, bad dreams, and invasions. Intriguing to compare the stresses of modern life to the litany of ancient worries and magical remedies! Thank you so much for your scholarship, humor, and wonderful, highly illuminating Esoterica channel!

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you know there's something wrong with the world when on a scholarly video on Canaan you get a commercial for "ancient aliens"

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Yeah that stuff is cringe

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The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts is a great read for those intesested in this area of study. I do love this channel.

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Thanks

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Thank you so much for sharing.

[@omarwaqar8637]

The islamic Hadith literature seems to say almost the exact things: snake, scorpion, and evil eye taking center stage in the "magic" practices mentioned therein. Probably has cultural origins in these earlier traditions.

[@MrWaterlionmonkey]

More likely Islam took these traditions from the Jews of the time

[@MrWaterlionmonkey]

A lot of Islamic traditions are taken from Jewish and Christian practices of the time or from Jewish and Christian literature. Some cananite were more prominent in their traditions at the time and many are still important, especially in Judaism.

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Indeed, his breakdown is understandable and thorough. I got some serious manifestos on my joint that breaks down a lot of esoteric knowledge.

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"Disarming the bites of vipers" as it was described in Virgil's golden age, is a euphemism (disphemism? Kakaphemism?) that Ficino refers to in a really nasty way when discussing how the Golden Age (of the Messiah) has already come in DCR: "Look! Christians and Jews get along far more now than they used to! the Golden Age has already come!"

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Feel better soon Dr. Sledge. Hopefully the family is better/not infected.

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Rest well and I hope and wish for your fast recovery!

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A full and speedy recovery....

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Rest deeply, and may you get well quickly. Sorry to hear it got you.

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get well soon!

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‘Hair of the dog’ tidbit alone was worth the watch! Great content.

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I was reading about Phoenicians whole day, and now you put this on yt, thank you so much

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Glorious. And please take time to heal.

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I smell a proto- St. Patrick. Love your stuff Doc. Also, he Hair of the Dog info was worth many likes.

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I love how he gives side-eye to certain things.

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So sorry to hear you are ill. Hope you and your families recover soon!

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

Wow, the 'hair of the dog' thing was a very entertaining surprise! It really is amazing how some concepts and ideas can linger in culture and just... persist. Not due to anyone taking any special effort to keep them alive, but simply due to most people not questioning their origin and applicability. I don't know very much about cultures as ancient as Ugarit and the Bronze Age, but I know there are a tremendous amount of ideas adopted for pragmatic reasons during the Industrial Revolution as factories led to booming and overcrowded urban centers which we simply... keep around. Even when those ideas harm people in the modern day, and every practical reason that justified them fell away a century or several decades ago, many people will step up to resist change simply because it's "always" been a certain way. It would make sense for things to persist for a long time if they had some grain of truth to them, or some lingering utility to people... but just having the words and phrases around and overheard seems to let them perpetuate themselves! Amazing!

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We don't really know they were intended to be read literally either.

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I made it three years without getting it. Now I'm sitting in quarantine. Hope you make a speedy recovery. Thank you for all the work.

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Get well soon. Another excellent video

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Ngl, when you said "monster-mancy" I had to rewind to catch everything I missed while yelling "We did the Mance! We did the MONSTER MANCE!" 😂

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get well soon, I send my healing blessings.

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[@SobekLOTFC]

Great job, as always Dr Sledge. The Ugaritic corpus is not my strong suit; I mostly know of the Baal cycle as a great paradigm of theomachy in Near Eastern texts. However, they're definitely on my "further study" list, along with Mark Smith's book.

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It's sadly under-represented despite it being so important. Even Ugaritic is more accessible as a language assuming some classical Hebrew. Thanks!

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Monstermancy sounds like it should be a song by Lordi. You give us such an incredible opportunity to dive into ancient People's minds. Cheers.

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Thanks for the dedication Sir. Get better.

[@joshuatherighteous2256]

I find it so interesting that Israelite religion is formed out of ancient Canaanite religion, in fact at one time there probably wasn't a difference as Israelites are historically connected to ancient Canaan.

[@johangrostkerck6046]

Well they did have the same believe system. The capital of the kingdom of Judea, Jerusalem, had Yahweh (which was simply one of multiple gods) as its patron god and when they got exiled and culturally surpressed, they became henotheistic (basically meaning that Yahweh was the father of all other gods, a bit like Odin in modern interpretations of Norse Mythology). I'm not sure if it was at this point (I really need to refresh my memory on Mesopotamian history) but the Israelites became iconoclastic, destroying all depictions of other gods and over a long period of time the henotheism changed into monotheism. You can see remnants of this in for example how names of what were previously gods were combined into names for demons, such as Beelzebub (though, this might actually be a Christian demon, not a Jewish one, I'm not sure but it's what came to mind).

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​@@johangrostkerck6046beelazbub was a Jewish demon that was taken up in Christian demonology as he's mentioned in the new testament

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[@JuanitaGrande]

Thanks for all the insight, especially regarding El. And on the note of that last ritual, time to feed this pooch here. Heal well, Doc!

[@LNSY144]

I’ve been waiting for this episode for weeks, if not my entire life! Thanks for all you do

[@somniumisdreaming]

Thanks so much for this wonderful knowledge and for giving us the tools to research things ourselves. I bought the Canaanites in the Old Testament, I try to get any affordable books you recommend and my modest library is better for it.

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This is such an amazing channel. You have a gift for explaining these complex histories of these ancient cultures, you explain on a way that makes it easy to digest for us laymen. Thank you for the effort you put in to make these videosnn

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Another fantastic production dr.sledge

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what an informative video thank you Justin

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The sacrificial tablet looks so much like a menu I had to laugh. And how old does this make “the hair of the dog that bit you” the best thing for the morning after? Crazy fun here❤

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Ach! So sorry to hear that you have covid. I had a bout of it back in January; not fun. Hope yours clears up quickly with no lasting effects!

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Ooo, yet another interest of mine, Ugarit. Thank you for preserving and making this wonderful video. Hope you are well recovered by now.

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Just awesome sir! Thank you!

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I watched this with COVID, so I guess there is a connection. I hope you and yours get well soon.

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Thank you for this. I was watching a really biased and ill informed video on canaanite deities and I really hoped someone more reliable had better information for me, and you delivered!

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I wish I could get my fundamentalist Protestant as well as Catholic relatives to watch this kind of video and learn more about the cultural context behind some of their own belief systems. Im pretty sure if you asked them about "the Ugaritic Cycle" theyd give you a blank stare. Im rather shocked by their apparent lack of curiosity vs me, the atheist. Its strange. Get well soon, btw! It struck me that going to the Temple of Asclepius would be the closest thing to a doctor for many of the ancient lower classes-literally a hope and a prayer lol. I suppose if that was the only thing on offer Id go to take my chances with Asclepius too.

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Definitely going to read that Smith book.

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Sorry to hear you aren't feeling well. Hopefully you can look forward to a speedy recovery!

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Great video. Informative and understandable. I got blessings going your way for good health and fortune.

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Sending healing energy your way!

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[@andythedishwasher1117]

I actually wonder if there may be a profound misinterpretation occurring where ancient peoples were simply in the habit of correlating natural events with problematic or notable events in their lives. Thus, they wrote things that we're interpreting as "If the moon is red, then x will happen" when it may be possible that they are simply saying "The moon was red when x happened" and were in the habit of generalizing these observations into principles grammatically. That interpretation sounds familiar and I don't think I'm the first to posit it, but I'd be interested to learn more about that perspective if there are academics who hold something like it.

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It's been however many thousand years and we're still using the "hair of the dog" for a hangover cure ;) 🤣

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this is so intersting. i really enjoyed this video!!!

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Great video as usual!

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Creating a video with COVID? Thats impressive dedication, and what a great video. Recover soon.

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I hope you're feeling better friend. Fantastic video. The hair of the dog thing is mind blowing. Also....monster-mancy lmao

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Thank you for this episode, and I hope you get to feeling better soon, Dr. Sledge! Get all the rest you need!

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Awesome 😎 thanks brother!!🙏

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Complete healing

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Another excellent video. Thank you. You do look a little flushed. Take care and get better fast.

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Drink sports drink. It helped me a lot.

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Yeah I was running an unfun fever filming this episode

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Healing light to you 💫

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Get well soon!

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Yay! I had been waiting for this video, also I really hope you're doing well. I truly admire and love the videos you make.

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Hope you feel better Dr.

[@mrwebbofficial]

There is a remedy where I’m from that after a night of drinking, you are supposed to drink a beer first thing in the morning if you are hung over. Drinking this beer is the: “Hair of the dog” (that bit you.) Who knew that this saying was really that ancient.

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I'm intrigued. In what culture exactly are people calling this beer to cure hangover "hair of the dog"?

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Been enjoying your studies into some of humans more unique ancient history

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