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Pyrite
A named iron-sulfide, later called fool’s gold, used for spark and later as an ornamental cube-stone. Not gold, and not sulfur as a dump.
Also known as Fool's gold
Pyrite is used in Medicine.
Pliny’s Natural History treats pyrites among fire-striking stones with listed remedies. A Roman-era pharmacological use of pyrite, not slag as furnace waste and not gold as a metal dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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Nahua tradition
Pyrite appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex seats hard glittering iron-sulfide stone among mirror and stone speech neighboring tezcatl craft. A named pyrite in that ethnography, not smoking-mirror as the named object already filed and not fool’s-gold modern joke framing.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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Roman religion
Pyrite appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History seats pyrite among spark-giving iron sulfides of mineral and fire-craft speech beyond pharmacy alone. A named pyrite craft encyclopedia seat, not pyrite medicine already walked and not gold as a false-identity dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
appears in · sourced · documented
sources
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).