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Air the supreme element (1)

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02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs



 		Keywords
four elements
personifications
Period
4th century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Firmicus Maternus, De Errore 4.1:
The Assyrians and some Africans (= Carthaginians) hold that the air is the supreme element, and venerate it as a symbolic figure. They have consecrated it by calling it Juno or the virgin Venus … They have given that element a female identity.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Firmicus Maternus, De Errore 4.1

Bibliography

Lapinkivi 2004, 142Lapinkivi, Pirjo. The Sumerian Sacred Marriage in the Light of Comparative Evidence. State Archives of Assyria Studies 15. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Coprus Project 2004.

Amar Annus


URL for this entry: http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database/gen_html/a0001368.php

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