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Book
A bound or rolled text. Funerary spells, law, and later “book of the dead” talk in English are different jobs given to writing that can be carried.
Also known as scroll · codex
Egyptian religion
Book appears in Egyptian religion.
English calls a shifting funerary corpus the Book of the Dead. The “book” is a modern title for spells meant to go with a body.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Daoism
Book is connected to Yijing.
The Yijing is a classic that can be opened and consulted. Wilhelm’s volume is one Western binding of that classic.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Book is associated with Knowledge.
A book claims to hold teaching. Hermetic treatises and a dream-handbook are both books; they are not one school.
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Book is associated with Wisdom.
In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, a figure holds the book emblematic of the spirit of wisdom in a French fourteenth-century manuscript — the book marks that wisdom.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Book is historically related to Angel.
In Twining Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, the lamb lies on the altar with an angel holding a book behind - the book is held by that angel.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Book is historically related to Altar.
In Twining Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, the lamb lies on the altar with a book held behind, and the lion and lamb stand at either side of the altar with the sealed book - the book scene sits at that altar.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Book is used in Medicine.
Book used in Medicine. A bound or rolled text. An organized craft of treating the sick. The Atlas keeps their meeting local, without dissolving either into a single meaning.
from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026
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Book is used in Offerings.
Book used in Offerings. A bound or rolled text. Gifts given to gods, dead, or powers: fire, food, blood, incense, words. The Atlas keeps their meeting local, without dissolving either into a single meaning.
from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026
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Book is used in Incense.
Book used in Incense. A bound or rolled text. Aromatics burned as offering or perfume. The Atlas keeps their meeting local, without dissolving either into a single meaning.
from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026
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Writing is connected to Book.
A book is writing that can be carried. The spells of the dead are one such carrying; a printed tarot booklet is another, later job.
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Megillah is historically related to Book.
JE MEGILLAH seats the Mo'ed treatise governing how the Megillah (the Esther roll) is read on Purim Megillah historically related to book and manuscript arts, not a free synonym dump and not a forced identity merge.
from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906
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Golem is historically related to Book.
JE GOLEM (medieval) seats the clay/wooden figure animated by a Shem written with aid of the Sefer Yeẓirah — golem toward that named book-method, not a robot flatten.
from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906
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Chapter house is used in Book.
CE CHAPTER HOUSE seats the monastic/cathedral meeting room used daily for reading the Martyrology and Necrology (among chapter business) — chapter-house book-reading use, not the cloister walk alone.
from Charles G. Herbermann et al. · The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907–1912
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Romance is historically related to Book.
Century ROMANCE seats originally a tale in verse recounting the adventures of knights, and later fictitious narrative prose of wonder and adventure — romance-tale kinship toward book, not a single novel-object essay.
from William Dwight Whitney et al. · The Century Dictionary, 1889–1891 (and later PD editions)
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Bestiary is historically related to Book.
Century BESTIARY seats a name formerly sometimes given to a book treating of animals — animal-book kinship, not the Roman amphitheater fighter sense alone.
from William Dwight Whitney et al. · The Century Dictionary, 1889–1891 (and later PD editions)
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Annals is historically related to Book.
Century ANNALS seats a history or relation of events recorded year by year, and formal accounts of events, discoveries, or transactions — year-by-year historical book kinship.
from William Dwight Whitney et al. · The Century Dictionary, 1889–1891 (and later PD editions)
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Almanac is historically related to Book.
EB1911 Almanac seats the annual calendar-book of astronomical and civil data — almanac-book speech, not a single ephemeris table alone.
from Hugh Chisholm et al. · Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1910–1911
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Bible box is historically related to Book.
EB1911 furniture notes seat the bible box as a small chest for the household Bible — book-chest speech, not a large chest alone.
from Hugh Chisholm et al. · Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1910–1911
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Illumination is historically related to Book.
Twining’s plates draw on illuminated manuscripts for early Christian emblems Illumination historically related to book and manuscript arts, not a free synonym dump and not a forced identity merge.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Book of hours is historically related to Book.
Twining’s Symbols and Emblems seats Book Of Hours in the material and craft neighborhood of book and manuscript arts. Book Of Hours historically related to book by that shared workshop path, not a forced identity merge and not a modern brand SKU dump.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Sword is historically related to Book.
In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, one apostle figure holds a sword as well as a book, an attribute suited to St Jude or St Paul — the sword is carried with that book.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Cup is historically related to Book.
In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, a figure representing the Church holds a book and a cup in her hands, the frequent emblems of the Church — the cup is held with that book.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Lily is historically related to Book.
In Twining Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, the angel Gabriel holds the lily in a ms book of hours - the lily is drawn in that book.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Lion is historically related to Book.
In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Book of Revelation titles Christ the Lion of the tribe of Judah beside the Lamb, expressing divine power.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Peacock is historically related to Book.
In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, an eleventh-century Bodleian manuscript shows the peacock holding a book among resurrection bird emblems.
from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)
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Hellenic religion
Book appears in Hellenic religion.
Pausanias notes books kept in the alabaster-adorned rooms of Hadrian’s library buildings at Athens. A named book in that periegesis, not Book of the Dead as the Egyptian funerary corpus alone and not every modern codex dump.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Nahua tradition
Book appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex seats amoxtli painted books among priestly knowledge, history, and craft speech. A named book/codex in that ethnography, not amatl paper as a missing id and not an Old-World papyrus-roll dump.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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Islam
Book appears in Islam.
The Qur’an continually names al-kitāb — the Book — as sent-down scripture and as what People of the Book were given. Islamic book/scripture speech in that revelation, not mushaf as the bound codex object (refused furniture) and not the quran→book association already stored as a different edge.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Qur’an is associated with Book.
A muṣḥaf is a bound or gathered text. The Arabic revelation is not “a book of the dead” and not a tarot booklet.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Hadith is historically related to Book.
Hughes HADIS seats the Prophetic traditions collected in canonical books — tradition-literature speech, not Qurʾān alone.
from Thomas Patrick Hughes · A Dictionary of Islam, 1885
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Buddhist traditions
Book appears in Buddhist traditions.
Watson’s Lotus Sūtra speaks of the sūtra as a book to be copied, kept, and recited — book/scroll speech for the text’s material keeping. Not the lotus-plant→book edge already filed, and not a generic library dump.
from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older
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Lotus appears in Book.
The Lotus Sutra is a book that uses the flower as its name-image. A sūtra, not an Egyptian papyrus.
from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older
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Shinto
Kojiki is associated with Book.
Philippi translates a compiled text. Kami narrative in a book is still Japanese court memory, not a Bible.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Alchemy
Albion press is used in Book.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the iron hand press with a toggle or knuckle action for letterpress work among printing machines. A named albion-press in that book-printing craft, not a Columbian eagle press and not a Washington press.
from Edward H. Knight · American Mechanical Dictionary, 1876
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European folklore
Type galley is used in Book.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats the Galley as the shallow tray that receives composed lines and tied-up pages before imposing the sheet of a Book. A named Galley in that page-holding speech, not a war-galley, not a composing-stick, and not a chase.
from Joseph Moxon · Mechanick Exercises (Printing), 1683–1684
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Woodcut block is used in Book.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises still seats Wooden-Borders and Wooden-Letters, if well drawn and neatly cut, as printable in a Creditable Book beside metal Capitals now more common. A named wooden relief printing piece in that book-ornament speech, not a copperplate, not a bare plank, and not Koster origin-blocks alone.
from Joseph Moxon · Mechanick Exercises (Printing), 1683–1684
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Vedic tradition
Ganesha is historically related to Book.
Dowson GANESA seats Ganesa as god of wisdom and remover of obstacles who is invariably invoked at the commencement of books (and said to have written down the Mahabharata) — book-opening kinship, not the elephant animal alone and not a Lots Animal Deck reprint.
from John Dowson · A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, 1879
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Valmiki is historically related to Book.
Dowson RAMAYANA seats the oldest Sanskrit epic as written by the sage Valmiki — Valmiki authorship kinship toward the book, not Vyasa as identity and not the Ramayana text orphan under one id.
from John Dowson · A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, 1879
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Panchatantra is historically related to Book.
Dowson seats the Pancha-tantra as the larger older work of ethical tales and fables from which the Hitopadesa was compiled — Panchatantra book kinship, not fable as a genre word alone.
from John Dowson · A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, 1879
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sources
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
- I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)
The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.
- Description of Greece · Pausanias
Pausanias, Description of Greece.
- 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).
- The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)
Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.
- Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art · Louisa Twining
Louisa Twining, Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art.
- SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE
SHOE.BLUE, Atlas instrument voice.
- Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)
Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.
- American Mechanical Dictionary · Edward H. Knight
Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary (1876).
- Mechanick Exercises (Printing) · Joseph Moxon
Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises (Printing).
- The Jewish Encyclopedia · Isidore Singer et al.
Isidore Singer et al., The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1906).
- The Catholic Encyclopedia · Charles G. Herbermann et al.
Charles G. Herbermann et al., The Catholic Encyclopedia (1907–1912).
- A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion · John Dowson
John Dowson, A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion (1879).
- The Century Dictionary · William Dwight Whitney et al.
William Dwight Whitney et al., The Century Dictionary.
- A Dictionary of Islam · Thomas Patrick Hughes
Thomas Patrick Hughes, A Dictionary of Islam (1885).
- Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.) · Hugh Chisholm et al.
Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition (1910–1911).