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There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.
(In all probability we owe to the Coptic Christians the invention, and to the Coptic magicians the dispersion, of the names of the three wise men, who make their first appearance, as Melchior, Thattasia, Bathesora, in Coptic magical texts in the 6th-8th c.
The Church of Saint Barbara is also worth visiting; it is typical Coptic in style.
Enter Old Cairo by the old Roman Gate — the Romans established a fort here following their annexation of the country — where you will find a concentration of Coptic churches and monasteries.
Deir Abu Maker is the most important, having provided several leaders for the Coptic church; nearby is Deir Anba-Baramos.