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Flint
A named hard silica used for fire-making, blades, and later as a strike-a-light. Not generic stone, and not a thunderstone as identity.
Roman religion
Flint appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History treats flint among fire-striking and hard stones of common use. A named flint in that encyclopedia, not pesesh-kef as the Egyptian funerary flint knife already walked and not a gun-flint dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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Nahua tradition
Flint appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records tecpatl in Books treating knives and day signs — named flint knife and day-sign stone. 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
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Egyptian religion
Flint appears in Egyptian religion.
The Book of the Dead neighborhood seats flint among Opening-of-the-Mouth knives that touch the dead’s mouth. A named flint in that corpus, not pesesh-kef as the named knife already walked and not a thunderstone identity dump.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Chinese tradition
Flint appears in Chinese tradition.
Laufer’s Jade Chapter I cites polished flint chisels found with stone coffins in Sichuan among stone implements of China. A named flint in that archaeological survey, not Roman strike-a-light speech, not Nahua tecpatl, and not Book of the Dead Opening-of-the-Mouth flint alone.
from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912
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Flint is used in Death.
Laufer’s Jade Chapter I cites flint chisels found in stone coffins in Sichuan among implements buried with the dead. A named burial-goods use in that survey, not Book of the Dead Opening-of-the-Mouth flint and not jade-death-chinese mortuary jade restated.
from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912
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Northwest Coast tradition
Flint appears in Northwest Coast tradition.
Swanton’s Tlingit Myths and Texts seat hard stone for fire-striking and blades among coastal tool speech. A named flint in that ethnography, not obsidian as volcanic glass alone and not Pliny’s roman flint seat alone.
from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909
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Flint is used in Northwest Coast tradition.
Swanton’s Tlingit Myths and Texts treat hard silica stone as material used in fire-striking and blade craft of that coast. Flint used in that coastal tool craft, not appears_in attestation alone and not obsidian use as volcanic glass.
from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909
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Flint is used in Clay.
In The Potter’s Craft, ground flint is mixed into almost all pottery clay — flint opens the porosity of the unburned body so the mix can be fitted to a chosen glaze.
from Charles Fergus Binns · The Potter's Craft: A Practical Guide for the Studio and Workshop, PD Gutenberg #40411
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Flint is used in Feldspar.
In The Potter’s Craft, flint and feldspar are balanced in clay and glaze batches — flint aids porosity when raw; feldspar produces density when fired.
from Charles Fergus Binns · The Potter's Craft: A Practical Guide for the Studio and Workshop, PD Gutenberg #40411
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Flint is historically related to Lead.
In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, a fine frit is made from calcine of equal parts lead and tin with ground flint and potash fused under the kiln — flint is fused with that lead calcine.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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Flint is historically related to Tin.
In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Chaptal obtains a fine frit from calcine of equal parts lead and tin with ground flint and potash under a pottery kiln — flint is fritted with that tin calcine.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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Kaolin is used in Flint.
In The Potter’s Craft, kaolin bodies take ground flint among the non-plastics — flint with feldspar adjusts porosity and firing density of the china clay mix.
from Charles Fergus Binns · The Potter's Craft: A Practical Guide for the Studio and Workshop, PD Gutenberg #40411
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Porcelain is used in Flint.
In The Potter’s Craft, porcelain recipes include flint with the clay body — flint keeps the unburned porcelain porous enough to dry and then densifies with the feldspar.
from Charles Fergus Binns · The Potter's Craft: A Practical Guide for the Studio and Workshop, PD Gutenberg #40411
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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).
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
- Jade · Berthold Laufer
Berthold Laufer, Jade: A Study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion.
- Tlingit Myths and Texts · John R. Swanton
John R. Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts, BAE Bulletin 39 (1909).
- The Potter's Craft: A Practical Guide for the Studio and Workshop · Charles Fergus Binns
Binns, The Potter's Craft (PD Gutenberg ed.).
- Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines · Andrew Ure
Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines.