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Salt

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A mineral that preserves and seasons. Covenant, purity, and the alchemical “salt” of matter are different jobs given to the same substance.

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    European folklore

    • Salt cellar is used in Salt.

      Beeton’s Book of Household Management seats the salt-cellar among open or covered dishes that hold salt at the household table. A named salt-cellar in that salt-service frame, not a pepper-mill and not a cruet alone.

      from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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    Alchemy

    • Sulfur is connected to Salt.

      Later alchemical schemes pair sulfur and salt among the principles of matter. The pair is a craft diagram.

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    tradition · 6

    Alchemy

    • Salt is used in Alchemy.

      Later alchemy names salt as one of the principles of matter. That “salt” is a craft term, not only kitchen mineral.

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    Nahua tradition

    Mesopotamian tradition

    • Salt appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

      Enuma Elish’s combat with Tiamat seats sea and crystalline salt among the ordered world after the waters are divided. A named salt in that cosmogony, not Roman table-salt pharmacy and not Nahua salt speech alone.

      from Enuma Elish, standard version often dated to the late 2nd millennium BCE

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    Roman religion

    • Salt appears in Roman religion.

      Pliny’s Natural History seats salt among Roman salt-works, trade, and encyclopedia chapters beyond pharmacy alone. A named salt in that encyclopedia seat, not salt-medicine-pliny as the remedy edge already walked and not Florentine Nahua salt alone.

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

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    Norse tradition

    • Salt appears in Norse tradition.

      Snorri’s Gylfaginning has the cow Auðhumla lick salty rime-stones until Búri emerges. A named salt in that cosmogony, not covenant-salt dumps and not bare seasoning alone.

      from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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    Egyptian religion

    • Salt appears in Egyptian religion.

      Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris names salt inside Egyptian elemental and purity speech tied to Typhon’s sea and priestly keep-aparts. A named salt presence in egyptian-religion under this source, not Pliny salt craft and not natron substitution.

      from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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    European folklore

    • Salt is associated with Offerings.

      Salt appears in European household and covenant customs as a thing given or shared. The uses are local and should not be read as one church.

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    • Salt is used in Medicine.

      Pliny’s Natural History lists salt among aquatic remedies: drying, cleansing, and compounded into salves and poultices. A Roman-era pharmacological use of a mineral, not alchemical “salt” as a principle of matter and not a folk purity charm.

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

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    Egyptian religion

    • Salt is historically related to Typhon.

      Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris ties sea-salt to Typhon’s portion — salt as the dry, hostile deposit of Typhon’s sea against fresh Osirian water. A named salt–Typhon figure under this source, not a kitchen-salt dump and not natron (absent from this treatise’s purification seat).

      from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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    • Salt is associated with Death.

      Salt holds flesh from rot. The material fact has been used as a picture of holding off decay; that picture is not a doctrine.

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    • Salt is historically related to Pepper.

      In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, stock takes salt with whole pepper and a blade of mace among the ingredients cut and rubbed in the stewpan — salt is seasoned with that pepper.

      from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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    ritual · 1

    • Salt is historically related to Baptism.

      In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, after the Council of Nice Christians added baptismal ceremonies including giving salt to the baptized person to taste — salt is given in that baptism rite.

      from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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    Alchemy

    • Alchemical salt represents Salt.

      Ruland’s Lexicon seats Salt beside Sulphur and Mercury as one of the three principles in which the property of things is composed. A named alchemical-salt sign in that triad speech, not pantry salt alone, and not mercury or sulfur of the triad.

      from Martin Ruland the Elder · Lexicon Alchemiae, 1612

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