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    Magic through the ages

    Mar 27, 2020 3 minutes

    Primal rites

    Paleolithic peoples create artwork based around the acknowledgement of prey animals and the ritual propitiation of their ancestors. Some paintings include strange, human-animal hybrids that are later theorised to be shamanistic figures.

    Paleolithic era

    Defining moment

    Pyramid scheme

    c. 2686–2181 BCE

    The Pyramid Texts, dating from the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom, are the oldest still-extant magical texts. Primarily related to the ancient Egyptian religion, particularly the cult of Osiris, the god of the afterlife and rebirth, they

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