Seed

• Seed is associated with Rebirth.

  A seed looks dead and then is not. Agricultural hope and funerary hope have both borrowed the picture; they are not one doctrine.

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• Seed is used in Medicine.

  In Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, Seed is named in the physic and receipt lemmas beside Medicine.

  from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)

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• Soil is associated with Seed.

  Seed is put in soil. Demeter’s crisis is that this ordinary work fails.

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• Tree is associated with Seed.

  Trees begin as seed. The world-ash of Snorri is still a plant in that sense, even as a mythic architecture.

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• Fortnight is used in Seed.

  In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, vinegar is poured to the seed and left to infuse for a fortnight, then strained and bottled — a fortnight is the steep time of that seed infusion.

  from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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• Trefoil is used in Seed.

  In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, mustard seed may be taken in a glass of water among the same bitter and stimulant counsel as trefoil infusions — seed doses neighbor that trefoil practice.

  from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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• Midsummer is used in Seed.

  In Culpeper’s English Physician, plants flower and give ripe seed about Midsummer — Midsummer marks that seed-time.

  from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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• Score is used in Seed.

  In Culpeper’s English Physician, half a score linseeds sit in the syrup or electuary recipe — score marks that seed count.

  from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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Buddhist traditions

• Seed appears in Buddhist traditions.

  Watson’s Lotus Sūtra seats seeds and plants of many kinds under the one Dharma rain. A named seed in that plants parable, not a grain-rite dump alone and not rebirth as a doctrine flatten.

  from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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Vedic tradition

• Seed appears in Vedic tradition.

  The Ṛgveda names seed among grain and fertility wealth in hymn speech. A named Vedic seed in that corpus, not barley as the already-filed yava grain and not a generic agriculture dump.

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

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Islam

• Seed appears in Islam.

  The Qur’an names the grain/seed among provision parables and what God splits and brings forth. Islamic seed speech in that revelation, not Persephone underworld seed already walked and not wheat as the cereal plant alone.

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

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Hellenic religion

• Demeter is associated with Seed.

  The hymn’s crisis is that seed will not grow while the mother grieves. Grain is the plot’s body.

  from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Demeter, c. 7th–6th century BCE

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Nahua tradition

• Maize is associated with Seed.

  Maize is a grain from a seed. Origin stories in the Florentine Codex are about that plant, not wheat.

  from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

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Roman religion

• Dibber is used in Seed.

  Columella’s De Re Rustica seats pointed sticks that open holes for setting seeds and seedlings among garden and nursery planting. A named dibber in that seed craft, not seed-drill as the later mechanized coulter-box refused and not seed-lip as the broadcasting basket filed beside it.

  from Columella · De Re Rustica, 1st century CE

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• Seed lip is used in Seed.

  Columella’s De Re Rustica seats baskets and lips that hold grain for hand broadcasting among sowing craft. A named seed-lip in that seed work, not seed-drill as later machine chrome refused and not dibber as the planting stick already walked here.

  from Columella · De Re Rustica, 1st century CE

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