Shadow

• Shadow is associated with Sun.

  A body between sun and ground makes shade. Solar eclipse is a special case of that geometry.

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• Eclipse is associated with Shadow.

  An eclipse is a covering by shadow. The physics is one fact; the omen is another.

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• Third is used in Shadow.

  In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, a little red is mixed with the former shadow to make the outer shade before the three drapery kinds — the shadow mix is the base of that third-step shading.

  from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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Egyptian religion

• Shadow appears in Egyptian religion.

  The Book of the Dead seats the shadow (šwt) among the enduring parts of the person the justified must keep. A named funerary shadow in that corpus, not Jungian shade-talk and not darkness as a bare night dump.

  from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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Norse tradition

• Shadow appears in Norse tradition.

  Eddic verse in the Poetic Edda uses shadow among darkness and shade speech of halls and woods. A named shadow in that corpus, not a Jungian dump and not night alone.

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

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Nahua tradition

• Shadow appears in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records shadow and shade among omens, body-signs, and earthly phenomena — named shadow in portent and natural speech. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.

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

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Roman religion

• Shadow appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid Book 6 seats umbrae—shades of the dead—as the underworld’s population Aeneas meets. Shadow as published phenomenon/concept id for that shade speech, not Egyptian/Norse shadow walks and not umbra cosmic penumbra flatten.

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

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European folklore

• Owl is associated with Shadow.

  The bird hunts in low light. Night-omen folklore uses that fact; Athena’s owl on a coin is another fact.

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