Veil

• Veil is associated with Rite.

  Covering a face or a shrine is a local etiquette of rites. The cloth is not a metaphor of cosmic mystery until a later writer says so.

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• Veil is historically related to Temple.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, when the veil of the temple was rent at Christ’s death, a new way of access was opened — the veil belongs to that temple.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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• Veil is historically related to Sanctuary.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, a Babylonian veil denoted the universe, and a double veil separated the sanctuary from the holy of holies — the veil divides that sanctuary.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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• White is associated with Veil.

  A pale cloth can be a veil. Covering and color are etiquette before they are a metaphor of innocence.

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Hellenic religion

• Veil is associated with Initiation.

  What is hidden from the uninitiated is sometimes literally cloth. Eleusis is one famous house of that hiding; not every veil is Eleusis.

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

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• Veil appears in Hellenic religion.

  Pausanias notes veils and draped coverings among cult images and dedications, kept beside peplos without collapsing into that already-walked garment. A named veil in that periegesis, not a wedding dump alone.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Veil is sacred to Hera.

  Iliad 14 has Hera dress and veil herself before the deception of Zeus, among the goddess’s own adornment. A named veil of Hera in that epic, not a generic bridal veil dump and not every later wedding-veil use.

  from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

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• Veil is used in Hellenic religion.

  The Iliad seats veils among women’s head-covering and goddess adornment, including Hera’s dressing scene and mourning speech. A named Homeric veil in dress use, not sacred_to→hera alone and not a wedding-only dump.

  from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

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Roman religion

• Veil appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid seats the veil among sacrificial and bridal cloth speech of Trojan and Carthaginian rite. A named veil in that epic, not toga as civic dress already walked and not a fashion dump.

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

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Norse tradition

• Veil appears in Norse tradition.

  Þrymskviða in the Poetic Edda seats the bridal veil among the woman’s gear Thor must wear to recover the hammer. A named veil in that poem, not every mystery-cloth dump and not Brísingamen as the necklace alone.

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

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• Veil is used in Wedding.

  Þrymskviða in the Poetic Edda uses the bridal veil as disguise-gear in the false wedding that recovers the hammer. A named wedding-instrument use of the veil, not every mystery-cloth dump and not the appears_in tradition seat alone.

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

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Egyptian religion

• Veil appears in Egyptian religion.

  Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris treats Isis’s variegated robes and the Sais shrine speech that no mortal has uncovered her robe as Egyptian covering grammar. A named veil/covering seat in that treatise, not Hera’s hellenic veil alone and not Athena’s peplos as a second garment id.

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

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• Veil is sacred to Isis.

  Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris binds variegated robes and the uncovered-robe Sais speech to Isis’s power over matter that receives every opposite. A named veil/covering sacred to Isis in that treatise, not Hera’s veil sacred_to already walked and not Osiris’s plain flame-coloured garment as the same edge.

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

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• Veil is historically related to Linen.

  Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris keeps Isis’s cult robes and covering speech beside the linen garments of Egyptian priests as neighboring cloth grammar of that religion’s holy living. A named veil–linen neighbor in that treatise, not identity of shrine covering and priest tunic and not wool as the abstained fiber.

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

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Islam

• Veil appears in Islam.

  The Qur’an names ḥijāb as barrier and speaks covering/modest-dress commands for the community. Islamic veil/covering speech in that revelation, not hijab/niqab as refused clothing-object invents and not a fashion dump.

  from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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European folklore

• Mantilla is historically related to Veil.

  Planché’s Cyclopaedia seats the mantilla among lace or silk veils of Spanish dress worn over the head and shoulders. A named mantilla in that costume speech, not a generic veil identity alone, not a wimple, and not a hijab flatten.

  from James Robinson Planché · A Cyclopaedia of Costume, 1876–1879

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