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Sistrum

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A metal rattle of Egyptian cult music, shaken in procession. Not a bell, not a drum, and not every later revival rattle.

Egyptian religion

  • Sistrum appears in Egyptian religion.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris attests the sistrum as a metal rattle shaken in Isis cult. Egyptian cult music in a Greek treatise, not a bell and not every later revival rattle.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Sistrum is sacred to Isis.

    Plutarch’s Isis and Osiris treats the sistrum as Isis’s shaking rattle. A named cult-instrument of that goddess, not a generic bell, and not a sistrum dump onto every Egyptian rite.

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

    sacred to · sourced · documented

  • Sistrum is used in Egyptian religion.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris treats the sistrum as shaken in Egyptian rite to awaken motion and repel Typhon. A named sistrum use in that treatise, not the appears_in and Isis sacred_to seats alone and not a bell as the same instrument.

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

    used in · sourced · culturally specific

  • Bell is historically related to Sistrum.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris defines the sistrum as a shaken metal rattle of Isis cult, not a struck bell. A named bell–sistrum keep-apart licensed by that treatise’s instrument speech, not a claim that bells serve Isiac rite in this essay and not menat as a third rattle id.

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

    historically related to · sourced · culturally specific

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