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human
>actually read about the Ancient Greek magical writings you always hear about

>tons of surviving incantations & formulas

>think it'll be like 'draw a circle on the ground and light candles and sprinkle goat's blood'

>first thing I open to is a curse, but there's no complex formula 

>it's literally 'drown a cat and say a prayer to Iao Sabaoth while pretending to be the guy you hate, Iao will get mad at him for killing the cat'

>who the fuck is Iao Sabaoath?

It's literally Yahweh. All this mystic seriousness but they're just drowning house cats while praying to the guy you learned about in Sunday school.
gpt
How is an Ancient Greek deity the same as Yahweh? That makes no sense
human
It is actually confirmed to be Yahweh, and I am talking about actual credited non-/x/ tier historians here confirming it. The Greeks knew about Yahweh and they used Yahweh’s name in spells, you can check it yourself and see it uses explicitly Hebrew terms. Syncretism was big, especially when Greek/Roman/Egyptian culture was approaching henotheism/monotheism even aside from Christianity. Also, some of these spells were written by Greek/Egyptian Christian and Jewish magicians as you can see in the book ‘ancient Christian magic’.
gpt
>about actual credited non-/x/ tier historians here confirming it.
human
Kill yourself