Purity

Islam

• Purity is used in Islam.

  The Qur’an treats purification (ṭahāra and related clean-state speech) as required for prayer and as God-loved cleanliness. Islamic purity practice in that revelation, not a generic hygiene slogan and not Christian purity culture without a Bible source.

  from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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Shinto

• Purity is used in Shinto.

  The Kojiki has Izanagi wash and purify after Yomi’s pollution before the noble children are born from that cleansing. Purification as practiced rite in that narrative, not Qur’anic ṭahāra restated and not a generic hygiene slogan.

  from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968

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Roman religion

• Purity appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid seats ritual cleanliness before sacrifice, burial, and underworld approach—washed hands, pure victims, and nefas avoidances. Purity as published concept in that cult speech, not Islamic/Shinto purity used_in walks restated.

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

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Vedic tradition

• Purity appears in Vedic tradition.

  The Ṛgveda seats purity and cleansing speech in preparation for rite — fitness for fire, soma, and hymn. A named Vedic purity in that corpus, not a generic cross-cultural purity dump and not later purity-code handbooks alone.

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

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• Karaites is used in Purity.

  In the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Karaites follow all the laws of purity — purity is the body of abstinence and ablution law they keep in practice.

  from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906

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• Lily is associated with Purity.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the lily is the well-known emblem of purity and innocence — the lily seats that purity emblem.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Chastity is associated with Purity.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the unicorn appears as the emblem of chastity while the virgin seated upon it holds a flower as the emblem of purity — chastity and purity are paired emblems in that virgin-unicorn scene.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Unicorn is associated with Purity.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, among Persian and Egyptian nations the unicorn was the symbol of purity and strength, retained in early Christian animal symbolism — the unicorn marks that purity reading.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Ceres is associated with Purity.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, Ceres should stand outside the city in a place people need only go for sacrifice, under the protection of religion, purity, and good morals — Ceres’s precinct keeps that purity.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Heart is associated with Purity.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Heart in the Catacombs may allude to that purity of heart by which alone we can see God — the heart marks that purity.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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