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It had taken him longer than he would've liked to look at Karissa's findings on ancient Greece and Egypt but as soon as he had time to look over them, spent the whole evening reading them and writing his own theories next to it. It appeared that her findings were closely related to wizardkind, or at least some of it was, which would be a good thing to hear he thought. He knew that she wanted to move on to cultural ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia so when he was finished going through all of it, Mitchell wrote back to her almost immediately.
Letter to Karissa Taylor said:Dear Karissa,
I've taken a long look at the notes you handed me, I'm terribly sorry that it took me so long, classes have kept me rather busy, and I can conclude that your findings are indeed closely related to wizardkind. Of course these are mostly all theories, but I think that with the knowledge that I possess over both worlds, I can conclude that large structures such as the Giza Necropolis and the Sphinx of Giza might have been built by wizards, this would mean that pharaohs such as Khufu, who commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza, would likely have used some kind of spellwork to have his subjects help him in building these. As you might know, Egyptologists seemed have reached a consensus that these structures weren't in fact built by slaves and prisoners, but by peasants during the off-seasons. Whether this is actually true is hard to say, of course, as different sources say otherwise. However, I think that I can positively say that magic had a hand in building these enormous structures one way or another. It seems that there's a balance in that both worlds contributed equally as much. Unfortunately, I couldn't find much about Greece architecture and their ties to magic. One might say that the Temple of Apollo at Delphi might have had some magical properties, the Pythia who served as the oracle of Delphi may have used magic to communicate with the Greek Gods. As you may very well know, however, Muggles have debunked this theory by saying that the Pythia was inhaling a gas called ethylene, which would make her high.
Having read your entry on magic in ancient Egypt in the form of rituals and such, I do think that the ''God'' the Egyptians worshipped, Heka, may have been a cover for wizardkind to perform their magic upon the peasants. While magic was an integral part of their religion and culture, witches and wizards alike may not have been accepted in society unless in the form of something greater such as a God. Priests would invoke Heka in the 'practice of heka' for mainly healing purposes. As for magic in ancient Greece, we've talked about the Gods before and how they may have just been wizards and witches in disguise, magical potions were mostly used in their day-to-day lives. The Oracle of Delphi could be tied to this as well if we believe the theories Muggles have used since 2001. Divination is also set to have been used in Greek times. Cities were set to have been protected by magical spells, and in some cases, people were sentenced to death for performing magic, even harmful magic. Plato, who wanted nothing more than to punish people who used magic and magical artefact, may have been a Muggle not to keen on living amongst wizardkind. Again these are all theories. So if the people in that time believed in magic and were sentenced to death for practising it, who says it's not real? Especially with everything we know today.
I've put my notes in your journal for you to look over at yourself. If you have any questions, you are more than welcome to write back to me.
Mitchell