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Salt in Hellenic Polytheism
I’ve been an advocate for the validity of “simple” offerings such as water and olive oil for a while, and I’ve been struck today with the realization that I’ve completely overlooked salt. This post is my attempt at correcting this mistake and explaining why you should also consider salt as a potent offering.
On the sacredness of salt The earliest appearance of the term “sacred salt” is taken straight out of the Iliad (Book 9, 210-215). We can also mention Plato’s Timaeus where he calls it a “substance dear to the gods” (theophiles). It’s no doubt that salt as a substance was precious, whether it is for its culinary, medicinal or economic reasons.
When asked about that specific line in the Iliad, Plutarch goes on to reply (Table Talk 5,10):
“But consider farther, whether its power of preserving dead bodies from rotting a long time be not a divine property, and opposite to death; since it preserves part, and will not suffer that which is mortal wholly to be destroyed. But as the soul, which is our diviner part, connects the limbs of animals, and keeps the composure from dissolution; thus salt applied to dead bodies, and imitating the work of the soul, stops those parts that were falling to corruption, binds and confines them, and so makes them keep their union and agreement with one another. […] Besides, you know that we account lightning to be sacred and divine, because the bodies that are thunderstruck do not rot for a long time; what wonder is it then, that the ancients called salt as well as lightning divine, since it has the same property and power?”
Salt, Aphrodite and sexuality Plutarch also comments on the aphrodisiac quality of salt, using examples taken from animal breeding methods. But ultimately, we reach this explanation:
“I think the poets had a respect to this generative power of salt in their fable of Venus springing from the sea. And it may be farther observed, that they make all the sea gods very fruitful, and give them large families. And besides, there are no land animals so fruitful as the sea ones.”
In this aspect, the myth of Aphrodite’s birth is an interesting example. While she is often called “Sea-born”, “Ocean-born” or, as her name suggests “Foam-born”, there is a much more obscure epithet that calls her “Salt-born” (Haligenos). This suggest that sea-salt in particular is the cristallization of Ouranos’ sperm, which came to fecundate the foam from which Aphrodite was born.
I will end by saying this: the sacredness of salt is not unique to the Greeks and the Romans. It has an important place to the Egyptians and the Old Testament tells plenty about the importance of salt in the ancient Judaism. If anything, this shared trait should remind us to not forget about such an essential substance.
Bibliography under the cut.
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The bagh naka is a claw like weapon which hails from India. It is quite often designed to fit over the knuckles and some are designed to be concealed under the hand but as seen above, there are many variations of the weapon. It was inspired by the claws of large animals. The term bagh naka means “tiger claw” in Hindu. This weapon was often used in a form of fighting called naki ka kusti. One of these brutal fights which took place in 1864 is described below:
“The weapons, fitted into a kind of handle, were fastened by thongs to the closed right hand. The men, drunk with bhang or Indian hemp, rushed upon each other and tore like tigers at face and body; forehead-skins would hang like shreds; necks and ribs were laid open, and not infrequently one or both would bleed to death. The ruler’s excitement on these occasions often grew to such a pitch that he could scarcely restrain himself from imitating the movements of the duelists.”
“Kumonosu-jo”/“Throne of Blood” [2], 1957, directed by Akira Kurosawa (b. 1910, Japan)
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The Ninja And Their Secret Fighting Art
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“The notion that every single thing we do is recorded, that every purchase, even every mouse click, can be tracked in every way, that there is no part of our lives where we can truly be alone and where we can say that what we are doing is not available for observation—except maybe going to the bathroom and that’s soon to change (how about intelligent toilets that test your excreted fluids and solids). I think the notion that we’re all on camera now is going to cause a subtle shift in our natural behaviors. If we were having a conversation before the camera started, we experience some subtle but genuine difference now that the cameras are rolling. I’m on the air, I’m being broadcast, and I’m not being my normal self. I’m concerned that there isn’t going to be any part of my life where I can be my normal self.”
— Michael Chricton, Closer To Truth: Science, Meaning, and the Future, Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Three headed dragon wall painting from an Etruscan tomb at the necropolis of Pianacce, dated to the 4th century BC. [1280x1205]
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