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Smoke

Elements · Rituals

Visible breath of fire. Offerings, signals, and later “smoke without fire” talk use it differently.

Roman religion

  • Smoke appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid seats sacrificial and funeral smoke rising from altars and pyres as sign and rite-mark. Smoke as published element in that cult speech, not KF incense churn and not fire-roman-virgil alone.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Smoke is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica repeatedly directs fumigation and smoke of named drugs for cough, womb, and cleansing uses. A named smoke job in that handbook, not incense as KF offerings churn and not fire as the combustion principle already seated in other medicine rows.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

  • Smoke is historically related to Ochre.

    In Heather's Treatise on Mathematical Instruments, Smoke is treated with Ochre; piece and peer stock share the entry.

    from J. F. Heather · Treatise on Mathematical Instruments, 1849 (and later PD editions)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

  • Tobacco is associated with Smoke.

    In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, an earwig in the meatus may be destroyed by tobacco-smoke, or by oil poured into the meatus — tobacco supplies that smoke.

    from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)

    associated with · sourced · documented

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