Healing

Hellenic religion

• Healing is associated with Serpent.

  Asklepian healing keeps a serpent in the sanctuary. Healing and the snake meet there as Greek temple medicine, not as a global serpent-essence.

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

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• Healing is used in Dream incubation.

  At Epidaurus the useful dream is for a cure. Incubation is one Greek method of asking to be healed.

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

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• Healing appears in Hellenic religion.

  Pausanias seats healing among Asklepios sanctuaries—Epidaurus incubation and votive cure speech—as Hellenic cult practice. A named healing in that periegesis, not medicine-epidaurus alone and not modern clinic dumps.

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

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• Apollo is associated with Healing.

  Greek Apollo can send plague and also be asked for its stopping. Harm and help sit in one cult without becoming Asklepios.

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

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• Asklepios is sacred to Healing.

  Pausanias describes Asklepieia as places one went to be cured. Healing here is a temple craft with a named god.

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

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• Serpent is associated with Healing.

  Greek Asklepian cult pairs the serpent with a healing god. Keep this pairing separate from Apep’s hostility and from the Nahua feathered serpent.

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

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• Epidaurus is associated with Healing.

  People went to Epidaurus to be cured. The cure is a temple hope with a named god.

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

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• Healing is connected to Medicine.

  Healing is the hope; medicine is an organized craft of that hope. They meet without being identical.

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Vedic tradition

• Healing appears in Vedic tradition.

  The Ṛgveda includes healing hymn speech — prayers for the body’s restoration and for remedies named in rite. A named Vedic healing in that corpus, not later Ayurvedic handbook alone and not medicine as a bare craft dump.

  from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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Buddhist traditions

• Healing appears in Buddhist traditions.

  Watson’s Lotus Sūtra’s physician parable turns on the children’s healing when they take the medicine — healing as restoration speech in that teaching, not clinical medicine alone and not a generic cure dump.

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

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Celtic tradition

• Brigid is associated with Healing.

  Later Irish tradition gives Brigid a share in healing. That is not Asklepios’s Epidaurus.

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Roman religion

• Mandrake is used in Healing.

  Pliny treats mandragora among medicinal plants. Roman encyclopedia, still not a witchcraft root-person.

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

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Egyptian religion · Nile valley

• Wedjat is associated with Healing.

  The restored eye is a restored whole. Healing as a completed sign, not a later clinical metaphor.

  from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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