We recently stumbled on “pharmakoi” in this book. to “heal the land” of pandemics or bad economy or whatever the Greeks would perform human sacrifices. The name of those sacrifices were “pharmakoi”. This is the latin root of the word “pharmacy”.
The Roman aristocracy was heavily practing Kabbalist magic. In fact, in HBO’s “Rome” (John Milius version) the religion of the “Roman” Ruling Class was VERY different from the peasantry. More sorcery, paganism, and occult Judiasm. Notice the Rabbi consulting Atia on the success of her blood ritual.
You can see it for yourself in the video here.
The book cited is on Archive.org here.
