Lake

Roman religion

• Lake appears in Roman religion.

  Pliny’s Natural History seats lakes among inland waters of geography and marvel chapters. A named lake in that encyclopedia, not sea as salt water and not a marsh already seated under Virgil.

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

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Nahua tradition

• Lake appears in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records lakes and Basin of Mexico water among settlement, canoe, and chinampa-adjacent speech — named lakes as livelihood geography. 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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Chinese tradition

• Lake appears in Chinese tradition.

  Wilhelm’s Yijing trigram speech seats Lake/Marsh (Duì) among the eight image-figures. A named lake image in that classic, not marsh as a second Dui dump and not a gazetteer pond.

  from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

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Hellenic religion

• Lake appears in Hellenic religion.

  Pausanias names storied lakes among Arcadian and Boeotian itinerary—Stymphalus and kin with cult and labor speech. A named lake in that periegesis, not every reservoir dump and not marsh as the reed edge beside it.

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

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Egyptian religion

• Lake appears in Egyptian religion.

  The Book of the Dead seats lakes of fire and other named lakes among the districts of the below and the Field. Lake as that funerary inland-water speech, not marsh as the reed-wet already walked and not sea as open salt.

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

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