Horus's belly-ache (KYP T144)

[He] cut it without a knife, he cooked it [without] fire, he [ate it without] salt, and he ached, and the area around his navel [was in pain]. …you could adjure the three hundred sinews that are around the belly: ‘Let every sickness and every suffering and every aching that is in the belly of NN son of NN be healed at once, it is I who recite, it is the lord Jesus who grants healing!’

A god eats something he shouldn't have, sends a one-eyed demon to fetch his mother, and Isis brings the words. Then the charm hands the healing to Jesus without a blink. Every stomach-ache is a small myth, and every mother has been called out at night for one.

Historical text; not medical advice.

Translation by Korshi Dosoo, notes by Edward Love, edited by the team and Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin. KYP T144, Berlin P. 8313, 651–800 CE. Link: KYP T144.

Contains information from the Kyprianos Database, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL). Line numbers omitted.