Ladder

Hellenic religion

• Ladder appears in Hellenic religion.

  Herodotus notes ladders among siege and wall-scaling gear in Greek and Near Eastern campaigns. A named ladder in that traveler’s speech, not a stair dump and not a symbolic ladder-of-ascent flatten.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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Egyptian religion

• Ladder appears in Egyptian religion.

  The Book of the Dead includes ladder speech for the dead’s ascent toward the sky. A named funerary ladder in that corpus, not Jacob’s ladder and not a carpenter’s tool dump alone.

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

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• Ladder mark represents Ladder.

  The Book of the Dead keeps sky-ladder speech for the dead’s ascent — the ladder mark performs a depiction job for that ladder figure, not ladder→egyptian-religion attestation alone already walked.

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

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Roman religion

• Ladder appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid Book 2 seats ladders among the Greeks’ scaling of Troy’s walls on the fall night. A named ladder in that Trojan episode of the Roman epic, not a ship-ladder dump and not the Herodotus siege-ladder restated as this edge.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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Northwest Coast tradition

• Ladder appears in Northwest Coast tradition.

  Swanton’s Tlingit collection seats house-entry ladders among plank-house and story travel of that coast. A named ladder in that ethnography, not a dream-ladder symbol dump and not Herodotus Nile ladder alone.

  from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909

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