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Ant

Beings · Nature

Ant as an animal people have named and used. Community, Collaboration, Persistence — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Ant is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats ants among insects in Roman natural-history and related remedy speech. A named ant in that encyclopedia, not a modern hive-metaphor dump and not a termite flatten.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

Nahua tradition

  • Ant appears in Nahua tradition.

    Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records azcatl in Book 11 insect speech — named ant including maize-carrying lore in Sahagún’s animal books. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.

    from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

Islam

  • Ant appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an names the ant in sura 27 (al-Naml) among Solomon’s host speech. A named insect in that revelation, not a generic insect dump and not the spider parable of another sura.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

Hellenic religion

  • Ant appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus’s Indian marvel logos tells of gold-digging ants. A named ant in that traveler’s speech, not a generic insect dump and not Pliny/Florentine ant walks alone.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Natural History · Pliny the Elder

    Pliny, Naturalis Historia.

  • Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators

    Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).

  • Histories · Herodotus

    Herodotus, Histories.