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Vine

Nature

Vine as a plant people have named and used. Climbing reach, shared juice, tendril hold — one living kind, not a single symbol.

Egyptian religion

  • Vine is sacred to Osiris.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats the vine with Osiris–Dionysus interpretatio — vine as Osiris’s plant in Egyptian/Hellenic crossover speech. A named vine–Osiris cult link under this source, not a missing wine entity and not ivy as the same edge.

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

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  • Vine is historically related to Oil.

    In Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Vine is kept among the working lemmas, companion to Oil.

    from Ebenezer Cobham Brewer · Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1870 (and later PD editions)

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  • Vine is historically related to Oak.

    In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Vine is placed beside Oak as concrete shop companions.

    from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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  • Vine is associated with Phoenix.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, a Catacomb sarcophagus shows Christ among the Apostles with Vine branches spreading behind and a Phoenix seated on one of two Palm Trees — the vine shares that phoenix field.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Vine is historically related to Cypress.

    In Twining Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, plate 87 trees treats the vine with the palm and the cypress as early Christian vegetable symbols.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Vine is historically related to Egg.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, parchment black from vine charcoal is tempered with egg like the other bright book colours.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Wine is historically related to Vine.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats wine among products of the vine in Roman agricultural and diet speech. A named wine beside vine, not grape as the fruit alone and not spirit-of-wine as distilled alcohol.

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

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  • Grape is associated with Vine.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Good Shepherd is surrounded with bunches of Grapes on a Catacomb grave lamp among Vine subjects — the grape sits with that vine.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Charcoal is historically related to Vine.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, black for painting is made from the charcoal of a soft wood or of the vine, and vine twigs steeped in wine then burnt become blacker — charcoal is taken from that vine.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Cedar is historically related to Vine.

    In Watson Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the same Lebanon note places the cedar among the fir, oak, fig, and vine on the cultivated mountain crags.

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

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  • Olive is historically related to Vine.

    In Twining Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, plate 87 treats the vine with palm and cypress, and plate 88 continues with the palm and the olive as vegetable symbols.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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Roman religion

  • Pruning hook is used in Vine.

    Columella’s De Re Rustica seats hooked knives for cutting and training vines among vineyard dress. A named pruning-hook in that vine craft, not falx as the broader hooked cutter already walked under Pliny and not billhook as the heavier wood hook filed beside it.

    from Columella · De Re Rustica, 1st century CE

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Hellenic religion

  • Vine Charcoal is historically related to Vine.

    Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants Book 5 seats charcoal made from different woods and ranks which burn and hold fire, including vine and soft-shoot woods in that fuel neighborhood. A named vine-charcoal as charcoal from vine wood continuous with that handbook, not charcoal as the generic fuel seat alone and not vine-black as the pigment char dump refused here.

    from Theophrastus · Enquiry into Plants, c. 300 BCE

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