River

• River is connected to Water.

  A river is water with a course. The identity is material.

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• Nilometer is used in River.

  Mollett’s Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology seats Nilometer among the tools, materials, or practices of the river neighborhood. Nilometer used in that craft path, not a bare synonym for river and not a modern brand SKU dump.

  from J. W. Mollett · Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology, 1883

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Egyptian religion

• River is connected to Nile.

  The Nile is one named river. Connecting the category to the instance keeps the Nile from standing in for every stream.

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Shinto

• River appears in Shinto.

  The Kojiki has Izanagi purify at a river mouth after fleeing Yomi before the noble children are born from that washing. Named river as the misogi course in that narrative, not Styx poetry and not Nile alone.

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

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Islam

• River appears in Islam.

  The Qur’an repeatedly promises Gardens underneath which rivers flow. A named river speech in that paradise geography, not Nile ethnography dumps and not paradise as the garden seat already walked.

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

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Roman religion

• River appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid seats rivers among the Tiber’s destiny speech and the underworld streams Aeneas must cross. A named river in that epic, not Styx/Lethe as the already-filed named waters and not a hydrology dump.

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

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Hellenic religion

• River appears in Hellenic religion.

  Pausanias names cult and boundary rivers among Greek travel speech (Alpheios, Eurotas, and kin). A named river class in that periegesis, not Styx as the Hesiod oath-river already walked and not every underworld water.

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

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• Lavoir is used in River.

  Homer’s Odyssey seats open washing-places by spring and river where Nausicaa and the maids wash clothes before the stranger’s arrival. Named lavoir use in that river wash-place neighborhood, not washhouse as an enclosed laundry building and not dhobi-ghat as a riverside step dump alone.

  from Homer · Odyssey, c. 8th–7th century BCE

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Norse tradition

• River appears in Norse tradition.

  Eddic cosmogony and journey poems in the Poetic Edda name rivers among the wet paths of the worlds. A named river in that corpus, not water as the kind already walked via Gylfaginning and not a Nile dump.

  from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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Vedic tradition

• River appears in Vedic tradition.

  The Ṛgveda names rivers (Sarasvatī, Sindhu, and kindred) as hymn landscape and praise-objects. A named Vedic river speech in that corpus, not Nile membership and not a generic watercourse dump.

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

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• Ghat is historically related to River.

  Hobson’s Ghaut article seats ghāt as a landing-place or path of descent to a river, ferry, or quay — river-stair speech, not a mountain pass alone (sense B kept apart).

  from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)

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• Bathing ghat is used in River.

  Hobson’s Ghaut landing-place sense seats the river stair used for bathing — bathing-stair use toward the river, not a burning-ghat cremation stair.

  from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)

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Chinese tradition

• River appears in Chinese tradition.

  Wilhelm’s Yijing image and line speech names the river among flowing-water figures beside ford and well counsel. A named river in that classic, not the Nile and not water as the Kan trigram alone.

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

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