element

Silver

Elements · Colors & materials

A pale metal used for coin, mirror, and later lunar correspondence in laboratory idiom.

Alchemy

  • Silver is associated with Moon.

    Later alchemy and jewelry-speech pair silver with the moon. The pairing is a craft and market convention, not Thoth’s lunar office.

    associated with · interpretive · culturally specific

  • Gold is connected to Silver.

    Sun-and-moon metal-speech in later alchemy pairs gold and silver. The pairing is a laboratory idiom.

    connected to · interpretive · culturally specific

  • Silver is associated with Mirror.

    Glass mirrors were silvered. The metal is a technology of likeness, not a moral of the self.

    associated with · interpretive · documented

  • Silver is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History lists silver scoria among metal remedies: compounded into wound plasters and eye-salves, used in clysters for dysentery, and applied as liniments for ulcers and scars. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the metal, not lunar silver-speech and not looking-glass silvering alone.

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

    used in · sourced · documented

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