plant
Ivy
Ivy as a plant people have named and used. Cling climb, lasting bind, wall green — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Hellenic religion
Ivy appears in Hellenic religion.
Pausanias notes ivy among Dionysiac plant gear in sanctuaries and processions. A named ivy in that periegesis, not grape as wine plant and not a wallpaper dump.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Ivy is historically related to Dionysus.
Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris pairs Osiris’s ivy with Dionysus’s familiar ivy so Greek readers hear the interpretatio — a named ivy–Dionysus keep-together under this source, not a second sacred_to and not a courtesy reverse.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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Ivy is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists ivy (kissos) leaves and clusters among cooling and head-drug uses. A named ivy in that handbook, not Pausanias Dionysiac sanctuary speech already walked and not a wallpaper dump.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Ivy is historically related to Vinegar.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, fresh ivy leaves are boiled in vinegar and applied warm to the sides for spleen ache or stitch — ivy is boiled in that vinegar foment.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Ivy is historically related to Wine.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, fresh ivy leaves are boiled in wine for old filthy ulcers hard to be cured — ivy is boiled in that wine.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Ivy is historically related to Alum.
In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, a flux powder compounds salt from ashes of musk ivy with burned alum, litharge, vitriol, and camphor before it is mixed with ore and lead.
from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912
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Ivy is historically related to Camphor.
In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, a flux powder mixes salt from ashes of musk ivy with an uncia of camphor ground with sulphur among litharge and vitriol.
from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912
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Galbanum is associated with Ivy.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, a compound lists wax, turpentine, gum of ivy, and galbanum of each two ounces among roots and seeds for the plaster — galbanum sits with that ivy gum.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Flax is historically related to Ivy.
In Culpeper English Physician, compound ointment of marsh-mallows steeps flax seeds then adds gum of ivy with turpentine - flax meets that ivy gum.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Egyptian religion
Ivy is sacred to Osiris.
Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats ivy as Osiris’s plant — Greek readers are told ivy belongs to Osiris as it does to Dionysus in Hellenic speech. A named ivy–Osiris cult link under this source, not a generic evergreen dump.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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Ivy appears in Egyptian religion.
Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris names ivy inside Egyptian Osiris cult speech — plant attestation in that Greek treatise’s Egypt, not only the Hellenic Dionysus ivy pile.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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sources
- Description of Greece · Pausanias
Pausanias, Description of Greece.
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- On Isis and Osiris · Plutarch
Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (Moralia).
- The English Physician · Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Complete Herbal).
- De Re Metallica · Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation)
Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, trans. Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (1912).