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Nahua tradition

Air is associated with Quetzalcoatl.
Sahagún’s materials attach wind to Quetzalcoatl. Wind here is a Nahua office of the feathered serpent, not a Greek elemental air.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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Roman religion

Air appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History seats air among the atmosphere and winds of Book 2 sky speech. A named air in that encyclopedia, not wind as the moving breath already walked here and not a soul-breath theology dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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Vedic tradition

Air appears in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda names the mid-space (antarikṣa) and breathable air among the three worlds’ middle realm. A named Vedic air in that corpus, not wind as Vāyu/Marut weather alone and not later elemental air dumps.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Buddhist traditions

Air appears in Buddhist traditions.
Watson’s Lotus Sūtra seats air among the open media of Buddha-lands and assembly space — breathable medium beside wind as moving force. Air speech in that sūtra, not wind as the named moving force alone and not a humoral dump.
from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older
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Egyptian religion

Air appears in Egyptian religion.
The Book of the Dead gives spells for the breath and air of life in the throat of the dead — named air speech beside already-walked breath keep-apart, not a Mood-shelf wind dump and not incense KF.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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European folklore

Air Pump is used in Air.
Ure’s Dictionary seats the air-pump among manufacture apparatus that form and maintain a vacuum — paper wetting, evaporation, and filtration — by exhausting air under receivers. A named air-pump in that vacuum-manufacture speech, not a fire-piston, and not a chain-pump or well-pulley water lift.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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Coal damp is historically related to Air.
Ure’s Dictionary seats FIRE-DAMP as the explosive carburetted hydrogen of coal mines, and names choke-damp as the miner’s carbonic-acid foul air. A named coal-damp in that mine-air speech, not coal-gas for lighting, not coal-tar, and not coal-dust.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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sources

Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.
The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)
Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.
Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
De Architectura · Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation)
Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morris Hicky Morgan (1914).
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SHOE.BLUE, Atlas instrument voice.
Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines · Andrew Ure
Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines.
Domestic Medicine · William Buchan
William Buchan, Domestic Medicine (12th ed., 1791).