Frog — The Atlas

Frog is used in Medicine.
Pliny’s Natural History treats frogs among aquatic and marsh animals entering Roman pharmacological speech. A named frog in that encyclopedia, not toad as a separate shelf id and not a modern lab dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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Islam

Frog appears in Islam.
The Qur’an (7:133) names frogs among the signs sent upon Pharaoh’s people. A named frog in that revelation, not a Nile-fauna dump alone and not locust as the neighboring sign.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Egyptian religion

Frog appears in Egyptian religion.
The Book of the Dead seats the frog among rebirth and Heqet-adjacent forms of the justified’s hope. A named frog in that corpus, not a toad dump and not a mere marsh checklist.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Hellenic religion

Frog appears in Hellenic religion.
Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 6 turns the Lycian peasants into frogs after they muddy Latona’s spring. A named frog metamorphosis in that poem, not a generic amphibian dump and not a comic-fable flatten alone.
from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE
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Vedic tradition

Frog appears in Vedic tradition.
Ṛgveda 7.103 (the Maṇḍūka hymn) seats frogs as a rain-and-rite chorus answering one another at the year’s turn. A named Vedic frog in that hymn, not a Pliny pharmacy frog and not a generic wetland dump.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Nahua tradition

Frog appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex Book 11 records frogs among water animals — named frog natural-history and rain-adjacent speech. 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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sources

Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).
Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Metamorphoses · Ovid
Ovid, Metamorphoses.
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.
Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).