This is a combination of common rituals from the Papyri Graecae Magicae. I am using it in my summoning of a familiar in the next couple of days. I combined this ritual by reading Stephen Skinner’s Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic commentary on spatial techniques. If you intend to work with the PGM please read this book! It is one of the most valuable commentaries on the PGM. You will also likely need to get the original text. Stephen Skinner takes the ritual from PGM XIII line 821 from a ritualistic “recitation of the Heptagram”.
I did this ritual as part of the familiar ritual described in PGM 1-42 where it is not described because of the distinct familiarity with the symbols written in myrrh on the virgin parchment. I often believe that magicians left notes to remind themselves of what they would do at certain points, but without writing everything in full. Adding to a ritual is often more beneficial than removing from it since the gods will hardly condemn those that work doubly hard for their favour. Or will they?
For the first part of this ritual the spoken parts are the 7 Greek vowels in in the order they appear in the Greek alphabet ΑΕΗΙΟΥΩ. These are pronounced as follows:
- A as in Father;
- E as in Get;
- Ai as in Air;
- I as in Git or EE as in Keep;
- O as in Got;
- U as in Rule (albeit slightly more restricted As in French word Tu, but not Tout), and;
- Awe as in Awesome.
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“Accomplish for me …”
“I call your name, the greatest of gods.”
The second part of this ritual appears to me to be incomplete as there is no invocation of East and I am yet to determine the reason for the beginning of the order of the first vowel of each section. I have enacted it as written above for now and will modify this if I determine something that would make it more complete. It is entirely possible that the perceived “imbalance” in the cardinal points is deliberate to establish a format only to break it.