The four elements — Mythoi

Motif

The four elements.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.2.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / Alchemical The Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages) , The Twenty-fifth Dictum
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 14: The New Chemical Light, Part I (Michael Sendivogius)
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 15: The New Chemical Light, Part II, Concerning Sulphur (Michael Sendivogius)
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 12, Section CLXXXVI
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter VII

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Formulistic number: four.

Filed beside it

Formulistic number: fourfold (e.g. 400, 4000) Formula: north, south, east, west. (The cardinal directions.) The four humors Four places that cleanse the soul Four categories of souls at Judgment Four things that prevent the holy life Four things to which the glory of the world is compared Sending four messengers with four winds

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