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like yeah I know crowley calling aziraphale angel and aziraphale calling crowley my dear is a big fuckin deal and yeah I regularly lose sleep over it but it’s been done to death at this point like we get it like for real when are we going to start talking about the gordian knot of long-suffering love and adoration in “I know you, you old serpent”
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Crowley agrees to try something for Aziraphale.
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ID Doc Sends ‘Thank You’ Cards for Those Interesting Consults
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NEW HAVEN, CT - Taking consultative manners into another echelon, a Yale infectious diseases doctor is sending “Thank You” cards to show her appreciation for anyone who reached out to her with an interesting consult. “I wanted to send this to say thank for the interesting consult from the…
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All I’m saying is thank fuck the antichrist turned up out to be chill and saved the whole world from Armageddon because these two idiots certainly weren’t going to
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One of my favourite things to study is ancient medical texts. It’s strangely comforting to find so many of the things we suffer from today, from blindness to celiac disease to infertility, described by people thousands of years ago. The text I came across today is a particularly special example, since it deals not with a physical but a mental illness: depression.
The text in question (CTH 432) is a Hittite ritual, written in the 14th or 13th century BC in Anatolia (modern Turkey), and intended to make the Gods favourable to the person with depression. Unlike today, people in the Bronze Age didn’t differentiate between mental and physical illness: to them, many persistent afflictions were simply a sign that a God was had turned against the person. To make the God favourable again, a ritual was necessary.
Our ritual was done at night, and involved the person washing, shaving, cutting their nails, and having a palm frond placed on their head while they prayed for forgiveness. While this all might seem strange and even funny to us, some passages are familiar and touching even today.
The opening paragraph describes depression in the following words:
If a god or goddess is [angry(?)] with a person, so that his mind is ever spinning(?), and [during the day] everything is difficult for him while at night he cannot sleep. (If) by day [and] night he is always in a foul mood. Further[more], (if) he keeps having bad dreams and cannot [get a good night’s] sleep, so that he is always irritated, and […] consume him - then [they] placate the god or goddess in respect to that person (in the following manner).
(Translation: G. Beckman, 2007)
This is one of the prayers recited:
Quiet is the countryside, silent are the hills. The door is …, the gate is closed, and the door-bolt is set. The gods of the night are silent… The city gate of the great gods is open. Enter, O gods and goddesses of the night: Qaqqad, the South Wind, the North Wind, the East Wind, the West Wind, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Pegasus, the Pleiades, Hyades, Orion, Sirius, Canis Major, Scorpius, Aquila, Pisces Austrinus, Pisces W, Cygnus+Cepheus, Lyra, and Perseus. O those of Ea, stand by me! O those of Ea and all those of Anu, help me!
And this is said about the outcome of the ritual:
During the propitious months, in whatever month he cries for mercy, it will be fine.
The expression “it will be fine” is common in this type of ritual, but it’s reassuring to find it written about depression, is it not?
This text shows that across time, we have never been alone in our experiences. Even depression was shared by people thousands of years ago. Though our interpretations and treatments may have changed, we still tell each other the same thing:
Depression can heal.
It will be fine.
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This post was inspired by G. Beckman, “A Hittite Ritual for Depression (CTH 432)”, in D. Groddek (ed.), Tabularia Hethaeorum: hethitologische Beiträge Silvin Košak zum 65. Geburtstag (Wiesbaden 2007), 69-81.
More references to mental illness from Mesopotamia proper about can be found in J. Scurlock, B.R. Andersen, Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine (Urbana 2005). Chapter 16 contains the following description of anxiety: “… he continually has a crushing sensation in his chest, speaking and not being heard, calling out and not being answered…” And about depression: “If a person continually has a crushing sensation in his chest and depression (and) his heart ponders untruths…”
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The old lady got awkwardly to her feet by means of a pair of ivory-handled walking sticks. Then she dropped one and grabbed Moist’s chin. She stared intently at him, turning his head this way and that.
“Hmm,” she said, stepping back. “It’s as I thought…” The remaining walking stick caught Moist a whack across the back of the legs, scything him over like a straw. As he lay stunned on the thick carpet, Mrs. Lavish went on, triumphantly: “You’re a thief, a trickster, a charlie artful, and an all-round bunco artist! Admit it!”
“I’m not!” Moist protested weakly.
“Liar too,” said Mrs. Lavish cheerfully. “And probably an imposter! Oh, don’t waste that innocent look on me! I said you are a rogue, sir! I wouldn’t trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!”
Then she prodded Moist in the chest, hard. “Well, are you going to lie there all day?” she snapped. “Get up, man. I didn’t say I didn’t like you!”
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Information for Gyakuten Kenji (Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth) from Tokyo Game Show 2008.
Nintendo Power
Issue 236, Page 50
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