Egyptian Magic

Magic is the way in which a magician converts energy into something usable, such as a spell.

Divine Words
Divine Words are Ancient Egyptian pronunciations for words.Magicians speak them to morph or create reality. To use them, no papyrus or other equipment, such as amulets, shabti, potions, and statues, are needed. When Sadie Kane was the host of Isis, she could speak a lot of Divine Words. However, due to giving the goddess up, her use of Divine Words are more limited than before.

Divine Words are also hieroglyphs summoned without need. Carter Kane can, due to being the former host of Horus, summon the Eye of Horus symbol effortlessly. It is displayed that to be Chief Lector, a magician needs to be able to speak a lot of Divine Words. Former Chief Lectors Iskander and Desjardins had enough ability to summon a cloud of hieroglyphics without other objects.

Known Hieroglyphic Spells
The following list of spells are some that have been used in the Kane Chronicles. It includes a brief description of what the spell does and, when applicable, provides the corresponding hieroglyphs, incantation, and the approximate English translation.

Seven Ribbons of Hathor
A spell which summons seven ribbons and binds a god, banishing them to the Duat.This was used by Zia Rashid against Serqet, goddess of scorpions, in the British Museum when she was trying to save Carter and Sadie Kane. This great weapon can only be summoned once a year.

Glamor
A spell that manipulates the weak minds of mortals, allowing a god or magician to appear differently. Once a magician becomes aware of the spell, their glamor becomes see-through.

Portal Summoning
This magic is used to go from one place to the other. However, it is no easy art, and therefore can be done with other resources known as obelisks. Normally, obelisks tend to be statues of ancient creatures such as sphinxes. A portal is described a swirling vortex of sand.

Scrying
A magician learns to scry as an initiate. Scrying involves a spell with a bowl of oil to see other faraway places.

Execration
This magic is very powerful and destructive. Execrating someone is banishing the thing forever or, in gods case, for half a dozen centuries. It was first used by Vladimir Menshikov on his minion, Death-to corks, to summon Set. It was used again by Michel Desjardins to execrate Apophis for a while, leaving time to the Kane siblings to teach other magicians the Path of the Gods.