The Magic of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls + the Origins of Lilith

God bless you Doctor 🙏

Wait what if they are bowls because the demons can enter/exit through corners?

It seals them away that way.

Dr. Sledge, your lectures are allways interesting. With slight doze of suptile sarcasm.🙂

Algormancy!

I bought the SBL Dissertation Series version of Isbell's Corpus of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls a while ago at a used bookstore. The typesetting looks the same as the new version in the Amazon preview. Do you know if it's the same text, or if there are any revisions in the newer version?

You're not making it clear if you believe this stuff. That could make a good thing, actually!

I was listening to carmina burana and i found myself thinking of you


Perhaps it wasnt just any carmina burana, as it is an occasion

Oh heck yeah, the more protection you have, the better. Lets have a whole dinner set of those bowls! I need one against garlic and spice breath, for some reason, my breath stinks when I eat "aromatic" food, damn those demons!

a bowl made of glass that you can put over a light source, so that the spell is projected all around. I think that's the next big thing in magic bowl technology. 😊

Lilith made me do it😂😂😂😂😂❤

Neon Genesis Evangelion makes more and more sense every time I listen to this channel 😂

Is it odd that I listen to these videos while playing Elden Ring?

Why do I know there was foetus and milk in those things?

Such a great teaching for me to relax,kick back,and take in.Thankyou.

Intereting content. Does the text spiral out or in? (always in the same way?) your wording ist partly confusing to me. Thanks.

Some really cool later examples of these made out of precious metals and stones in the Brooklyn Museum's Persian art collection if anyone wants a chance to see some in real life.

Thank you for bringing this to the attention of the masses❤

Pesky indeed

Okay, but... is there a bowl featuring Count Chocula? Is there one to protect me from having the roof of my mouth cut by Captain Crunch?

I strongly agree with you about Brill. It's time to make something… about their prices. 😄

love your content :}

thunderstorm while making video?
same
while watching video

This is the closest i get to any weekly religious content. Thank you sir.

Just reading the divine names and the implied theology from the stuff you put up on screen alone was mind-blowing.
I really hope that as many as possible get photographed and translated, and then shared in some way. This seems like an amazing cultural bundle to lay fallow. And that it's phonetic in many cases makes me think that linguists could probably glean a lot from it about the way those languages were spoken.
Fascinating all around. Keep up the amazing work Dr 🔨

Syro Aramaic and Bardaisan's 'book laws of countries' was my jam when in the academy. Bittersweet memories.

I saw one of the translated texts refer to "male lili and female lilith", what's up with that? Just before that passage, it referred to lillith in general, so I'm a bit confused. An uncommon, in my experience at least, of the female form being the default? I watched your video on lillith and the lillioth a while ago, but I don't recall anything about male lili

idk know if it's mentioned in the video still haven't finished it but I've seen a lot of bowls here in Syria inscribed with passages form the Quran

Im curious to know why you chose a Mayan glyph as your logo. I’m more so because I’m Mexican and I know the Mayans had little to do with Middle East and am flattered that you chose a glyph of their language

So many things come to mind. Like "who is Bril (Brill?)? And how devout is dr Sledge? (Jarmulka and full, yet visibly thining, beard, but not pyes (dreadlocks) and other visible symbols of being devout) and also very un-devout short head hair! (There should be a bowl for keeping a full and luscious beard, a beard is man's pride). But mostly, what is dr Sledge's secret for what seems having boundless energy and dedication? He keeps putting out one elaborate video after another, filled with loads of the arcane! Respect, dr Sledge. Respect.

The demon is trapped under the dip. The chips form a salt ring to prevent it from flying free.

Hooray!! An incantation bowl against Brill!! I love that idea! Right now I'm guessing that hundreds of magic-users are already hard at work with their styluses and pottery wheels making exactly that very thing in various forms! Would you like one written in Irish? It is the only non-English language I speak and write, and English just doesn't have the gravitas and mysterious undertones needed for serious magical talismans, (in my opinion.) I really want to make an incantation bowl for you, Dr. Sledge, as a present, to say thank you for all of the wonderful wisdom and lore you've brought into our lives. Do you have an address where people can send you things, a PO box maybe?
If so, and if you would like an incantation bowl against Brill made for you, in the Irish Gaelic language, please respond to my comment, and it's yours!
Sincerely, and with great respect, Naomi.

You better be careful. That little bowl may have a previous inhabitant LOL

Amazing artifact ❤

Others might simply tie a string around a finger ☝️

Was Lilith proof of ancient aliens? A guy with crazy hair says yes

The level of patriotism you show for your country is an example for future generations

I love your channel. I learn so much about subjects I adore and it’s been a long time since I have listened to a man break it down. It feels good to remember …. dudes love wild stuff too.♥️

The bowls can be wards for women to stop entities from stealing or bewitching their husbands. So, ancient version of Jolene?

Keep up the great work

I, too am experiencing the start of a thunderstorm in my neighborhood while watching this! 🙄😊

s o u p t i m e

Thank you for the information. Here's a comment for the algorithm.

I need to make one to keep bill collectors away….

Would you consider a video about how to be a responsible collector? What are some things you can do while collecting that will be beneficial, for example you said you are working to get the bowl inscriptions published so that scholars will still have access to them. Are there other things like this that people who have these sort of collections can do?

Lilith the original Karen

This reminds me of Witch Bottles and Witches' Marks on buildings. Both were often placed by doors and windows and were Folk Magic, not well attested in elite magic.