Soil

• Soil is associated with Seed.

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

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• Soil is used in Medicine.

  Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica catalogs medicinal earths and soils (Lemnia, Samia, and kin) among mineral drugs used as astringents and plasters. A named soil class in that handbook, not clay or chalk as the specific earths already walked and not earth-element as a cosmological five-phase dump.

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

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• Soil is historically related to Oil.

  In Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, Soil is treated with Oil; piece and peer stock share the entry.

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

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• Soil is historically related to Ochre.

  In Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, Soil is treated with Ochre; piece and peer stock share the entry.

  from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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Hellenic religion

• Soil is associated with Demeter.

  The hymn’s barren year is soil that will not feed people. Earth here is a Greek agricultural body, not a philosophical element only.

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

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Roman religion

• Soil appears in Roman religion.

  Pliny’s Natural History seats soils among tilled earths and agricultural ground of the later books. A named soil in that encyclopedia, not earth-element as cosmological earth and not mud as wet earth.

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

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