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Bell

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A hollow casting that rings when struck. Temple hours, cattle, and apotropaic jingles use bells for different jobs.

Hellenic religion

  • Bell appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias notes bells among sanctuary and civic sounding gear. A named bell in that periegesis, not bianzhong as Chinese chimes and not a church-bell dump alone.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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Nahua tradition

Buddhist traditions

  • Bell appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra seats bells among the heavenly and offering musics that announce and honor the Dharma beside drums and conches. A named bell in that sūtra, not Pausanias cult bells alone and not ghanta as the later Vajrayana hand-bell.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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  • Bell is used in Buddhist traditions.

    In Watson’s Lotus Sūtra struck bells serve among the sounding honors of assembly and offering music. A named Buddhist ritual use of the bell in that text, not a cattle-bell dump and not a temple-tourist souvenir.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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  • Bonshō is historically related to Bell.

    Chamberlain’s Buddhism / temple notes seat the bonshō as the large bronze temple bell of Japanese monasteries — temple-bell speech, not a small hand bell dump.

    from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)

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Egyptian religion

  • Bell is historically related to Sistrum.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris defines the sistrum as a shaken metal rattle of Isis cult, not a struck bell. A named bell–sistrum keep-apart licensed by that treatise’s instrument speech, not a claim that bells serve Isiac rite in this essay and not menat as a third rattle id.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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Yoruba Ifá

  • Bell is used in Yoruba Ifá.

    Bascom’s apparatus chapter seats the divining bell or tapper — irọ Ifá / irọke — tapped against the tray to call Ifá’s attention. A named bell instrument of that ethnography’s Ifá, not agogo as a music double-bell and not a church-bell dump.

    from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969

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  • Bell is used in Divination.

    Bascom seats the irọ Ifá tapper-bell as struck on the tray to open the session — sounding furniture of that divination craft. A named bell use in divination in that ethnography, not used_in→yoruba-ifa alone and not a music agogo flatten.

    from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969

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  • Bell is historically related to Opon Ifá.

    Bascom’s irọ Ifá is tapped against the divining tray to call Ifá — bell and board as paired sounding and marking furniture of the cast. A named bell–tray neighborhood in that ethnography, not identity and not agogo.

    from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969

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  • Ivory is historically related to Bell.

    Bascom’s apparatus plates pair ivory with the irọ Ifá tapper-bell — wealthier diviners have bells carved of ivory. A named ivory–bell material meeting in that ethnography, not identity of ivory and bell and not brass bells alone.

    from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969

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  • Brass is historically related to Bell.

    Bascom notes wealthier diviners’ irọ Ifá tapper-bells cast in brass beside ivory examples. A named brass–bell meeting in that ethnography, not ivory-bell alone and not agogo music-bell flatten.

    from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969

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European folklore

  • Repeating watch is historically related to Bell.

    Reid’s repeating-work chapters seat the repeating watch among pocket watches that strike hours and quarters on demand on a small bell or gong. A named repeating-watch in that craft, not a pocket-watch without strike alone and not a tower strike.

    from Thomas Reid · Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, 1826

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  • Tower clock is historically related to Bell.

    Reid’s public timekeeping speech seats the tower clock among mechanical clocks set in towers whose strike trains sound hours on bells. A named tower-clock in that craft, not a turret movement alone and not a domestic longcase.

    from Thomas Reid · Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, 1826

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  • Jacquemart is historically related to Bell.

    Reid’s public striking speech seats the jacquemart among articulated figures that hammer a bell on a public clock face. A named jacquemart in that craft, not a cuckoo bird alone and not the tower movement alone.

    from Thomas Reid · Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, 1826

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  • Christening is used in Bell.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the ceremony of blessing bells is by the Catholics called christening them because the name of some saint is given — christening is that bell-naming rite.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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  • Pomegranate is historically related to Bell.

    In Watson Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the high-priest blue robe carries seventy-two bells and as many embroidered pomegranates upon its skirts.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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