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IV.650b
Papyri Graecae Magicae IV.650b · So you may bring the hour-guardianIV.650bSo you may bring the hour-guardian
The close of the great prayer. In a parenthesis the initiate asks that the god bring with him the ὡρονόμος, the 'guardian of the hour' — a named lesser power (θραψιαρι μοριροκ) who governs this exact day and hour and, once he appears, will 'give response' in the favorable hours. The clause dissolves into a run of ō- and e-vowels, the hour-guardian's own sound.
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ἵνα1
hína
so thatin order that
συνπαραλάβῃς2
synparalábēis
you may take alongtake along with / take as an associate / include
τὸν3
tòn
the
τῆς4
tês
of the
σήμερον5
sḗmeron
today'stoday, this day
ἡμέρας8
hēméras
daydaytime
καὶ9
kaì
and
ὥρας10
hṓras
hourseason / the right time
ὡρονόμον6
hōronómon
hour-guardianhour-ruler, guardian of the hour
,
ᾧ7
hôi
whosewho, which, that
ὄνομα11
ónoma
name isword / reputation, (gram.) noun
θραψιαρι12
thrapsiari
Thrapsiarian untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
μοριροκ31
morirok
Morirokan untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
,
ἵνα32
hína
so thatin order that
φανεὶς13
phaneìs
appearingbring to light / show / (mid. / pass.) appear, shine
χρηματίσῃ14
chrēmatísēi
he may give responsegive a response / deliver an oracle / do business, be called
ἐν15
en
inwithin
ταῖς16
taîs
the
ἀγαθαῖς17
agathaîs
goodnoble / excellent, (τὸ ἀγαθόν) the Good
ὥραις18
hṓrais
hourshour / season / the right time
·;
εωρω19
eōrō
eōrōan untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
ρωρε20
rōre
rōrean untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
ωρρι21
ōrri
ōrrian untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
ωριωρ22
ōriōr
ōriōran untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
ρωρ23
rōr
rōran untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
ρωι24
rōi
rōian untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
ωρ25
ōr
ōran untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
ρεωρωρι26
reōrōri
reōrōrian untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
εωρ27
eōr
eōran untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
εωρ28
eōr
eōran untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
εωρ29
eōr
eōran untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
εωρε30
eōre
eōrean untranslatable magical name or sound, spoken for power, not meaning
so that you may take along the hour-guardian of this day and hour, whose name is [Thrapsiari Morirok], so that, appearing, he may give response in the good hours: [eōrō rōre ōrri ōriōr…]

so that you may take along the hour-guardian of this day and hour, whose name is [Thrapsiari Morirok], so that, appearing, he may give response in the good hours: [eōrō rōre ōrri ōriōr…]
Interpretation
(…so that you may take along the guardian of the hour of this day and hour, whose name is thrapsiari morirok, so that, appearing, he may give his response in the good hours: eōrō rōre ōrri ōriōr rōr rōi ōr reōrōri eōr eōr eōr eōre).
Ancient time was not a smooth line but a population. Every day and every hour of it had a ruler — a hōronómos, an 'hour-allotter' — and to act at the right time meant getting that specific power on your side. So at the very summit of the prayer, having asked for immortality itself, the initiate slips in a scheduling clause: bring the guardian of this hour along too, the one named thrapsiari morirok, so that when he shows up he will chrēmatísēi — 'give a response,' the technical word for an oracle answering — and do it 'in the good hours.' It is a startlingly practical request lodged inside a cosmic one, and it tells you how these people lived: astrologically, hour by hour, each slot of the day open or closed, benign or dangerous. And then the sentence stops meaning and starts sounding. The parenthesis ends in a long chain of ō's and e's — eōrō rōre ōrri… — the hour-guardian's own voice, or the sound that summons it. You do not translate a name like that; you say it, and the vowels roll like the hours themselves turning over.
IV.657
Papyri Graecae Magicae IV.657 · He comes to the pole; bellow, and kiss the amuletsIV.657He comes to the pole; bellow, and kiss the amulets
The rubric returns to the body. Once the words are said, the god will come to the celestial pole, and you will see him walking there 'as on a road.' You are to gaze fixedly, give a long horn-like bellow, spending all your breath and straining your flank — then kiss the protective amulets and say, first to the right, 'guard me, prosymēri.'
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When you say this, he comes to the pole, and you see him walking, as on a road. And you, gazing fixedly, a long bellow, horn-like, spending all your breath, straining your flank, bellow, kiss the amulets, say, to the right: 'guard me, prosymēri.'
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