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Execration Ritual

Abstract

The execration ritual was intended to prevent rebellious actions by Egyptians, foreigners, or supernatural forces by textually and kinetically destroying enemies via inanimate, animal or human substitutes. Execration rites are attested throughout Pharaonic history.

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