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[Tutorial] PGM V. 213-303 (p. 104-5 in Betz) Magic accessories popular in China

Informative post.
"Here I will tell you about the specific operations and ritual interpretations of this ritual as currently practiced in China. I hope you will all enjoy it. This is my first post, so if there are any shortcomings in wording, formatting, or other aspects, I hope the readers and moderators will forgive me."
CORE SPELL: Consecrate a scarab-ring according and say this invocation as you put it on: I AM THOUTH, Discoverer and Founder of Drugs and Letters! Come to me, You [who are] under the earth: Arouse yourself for me, O Great Daimon, He of Noun, the Subterranean! I am the famous Heron, [the] Egg of the Ibis, Egg of the Falcon, Egg of the Air-Ranging Phoenix, Having under my tongue the mud of Em. I wear the hide of Keph. Unless I know what is in the minds of everyone – Egyptians! Greeks! Syrians! Ethiopians! Every race and people! – Unless I know their skills and their practices and their works and their lives, And the names of them, and of their fathers, mothers, brothers and friends, Even of those now dead! – I will pour the blood of the black Dog-Face as a drink offering in a new, faultless jar And put it on a new base, and burn under it the bones of Hesies [Osiris], And I will shout in the port of Busiris That [Hesies] remained in the river three days and three nights; That he was carried by the current of the river into the sea; That he was surrounded by the waves of the sea and by the mist of the air. “[Hesies]: your belly is eaten by fish And I will not stop the fish chewing your body with their mouths Nor will the fish shut their mouths!
I will take the fatherless boy away from his mother! The Pole of the sky will be brought down, and the two mountains will be one! I will let ANOIXIS The Breacher loose against you, and she will do what she wants.” I will not let god or goddess give oracles Until I, [Your name], know through and through what is in the minds of all [people], Egyptians, Syrians, Greeks, Ethiopians, of every race and people – Those who question me and come into my sight, Whether they speak or are silent, So that I can tell them Whatever HAS happened, and IS happening, and IS GOING to happen to them, And [until] I know their skills and their lives and their practices and their works and their names, And those of their dead, and of everybody, And I can read a sealed letter, And tell them everything Truthfully!

This is a spell to consecrate a ring to give the user oracular powers. As such, the PGM recommends that the consecration be done as follows:
  1. Get a scarab ring (the PGM recommends that it be a “costly green stone” threaded with gold wire, and be inscribed on its base with the name of Isis). Exorcise it.
  2. Put an altar or table on a clean sheet (so that it is not touching the ground), and scatter olive twigs about its base.
  3. Burn incense of myrrh and kapet/kyphi on the table/altar.
  4. Put a salve containing essence of lilies or myrrh or cinnamon in a little clay (faience) boat that you have fashioned; put the ring in the salve that is in the boat. Put it on the altar/table.
  5. Leave the ring in the clay boat for three days.
  6. After three days, at dawn, make another incense offering to the ring as before, and then take the ring out of the salve and put it on. Anoint yourself with the cream it was in.
  7. Facing the sunrise, say the spell to the rising sun.
  8. The rite should be timed so that it occurs on either the 7th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 21st, 24th, or 25th day after the new moon.
In China, when we generally perform the making, we spread a layer of papyrus on the table. The ceramic jar contains only a single-ingredient essential oil. When facing the sun, we burn grapevines to bless it and chant prayers to invoke the power of Helios.
In terms of the gemstone for crafting, we have more options. The materials my personal friends have used include pure copper, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and jadeite. After all, emerald is just too expensive.

Next is the interpretation of some names. I hope it can be helpful to everyone:
1.This simple and beautiful spell is meant to give the ritualist the ability to know all about the lives of clients of any background, race or nationality, in order to better serve them with truthful oracles. In it, the ritualist consecrates a scarab ring. The scarab was the epiphany of Khepri, the solar god of the rising or morning sun.
2. It contains a clear godface: in the opening of the invocation, the ritualist identifies as THOTH, the primal Egyptian god of magic, scribes, sound, words, and sorcerous workings.
3. Some of the references in the spell can be understood as follows:
Heron: the epiphany of the sun god, the heron was known as “the soul (ba) of Ra.”
Egg of the Ibis: the ibis (and the baboon) is an epiphany of Thoth; the “egg of the Ibis” may refer to the Hermepolian creation myth wherein Thoth/Djehuty lays the World Egg.
Great Daimon / He of Noun / Subterranean: Underworld Osiris, Lord of the Dead. Also, perhaps the spirit of the Abyss itself.
Mud of Em: Uncertain, although perhaps the “mud” is the dung ball representing the sun which Khepri (the sun-scarab) rolls to the top of the hill, representing the rising sun.
Hide of Keph: Uncertain meaning, but if “Keph” is “Khepri”, the hide could be the sun scarab’s winged carapace.
Black Dog-Face: Anubis, the jackal-headed psychopomp son of Osiris and Nephthys.
Hesies: “The Praised One”, referencing Osiris. See Betz, p. 334 (re: “Esies”). h. Busiris: An Egyptian city 50 miles north of Cairo, now called Abu Sir Bana.
Fatherless Boy: Horus, who is fatherless because Seth killed Osiris. j. Pole of the Sky: The axis mundi linking the earth and heavens, around which all the spheres of creation spin.
The Breacher: ANOIXIS, “The Opening”. An ambiguous reference to a feminine disruptive power, perhaps akin to the Tauret, the mother of Osiris and Isis, whose epiphany was the hippopotamus; or perhaps the demonic soul-devouring, crocodile-lion-hippopotamus Ahemait who guarded the lake of fire wherein resided evil souls.
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