| 1. Septuagint, Isaiah, 2.302 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 168 |
| 2. Cicero, Philippicae, 13.24 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 168 |
| 3. Horace, Odes, 3.23.15 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 168 |
| 4. Propertius, Elegies, 4.8.51 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 168 |
| 5. Tosefta, Taanit, 1340 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 168 |
| 6. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 4.27, 6.25, 9.39, 10.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 7, 168 |
7. Porphyry, On Abstinence, 4.7 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray, by chief priest Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 287 | 4.7. 7.It was not lawful for them therefore to meddle with the esculent and potable substances, which were produced out of Egypt, and this contributed much to the exclusion of luxury from these priests. But they abstained from all the fish that was caught in Egypt, and from such quadrupeds as had solid, or many-fissured hoofs, and from such as were not horned; and likewise from all such birds as were carnivorous. Many of them, however, entirely abstained from all animals; and in purifications this abstinence was adopted by all of them, for then they did not even eat an egg. Moreover, they also rejected other things, without being calumniated for so doing. Thus, for instance, of oxen, they rejected the females, and also such of the males as were twins, or were speckled, or of a different colour, or alternately varied in their form, or which were now tamed, as having been already consecrated to labours, and resembled animals that are honoured, or which were the images of any thing [that is divine], or those that had but one eye, or those that verged to a similitude of the human form. There are also innumerable other observations pertaining to the art of those who are called mosxofragistai, or who stamp calves with a seal, and of which books have been composed. But these observations are still more curious respecting birds; as, for instance, that a turtle should not be eaten; for it is said that a hawk frequently dismisses this bird after he has seized it, and preserves its life, as a reward for having had connexion with it. The Egyptian priests, therefore, that they might not ignorantly meddle with a turtle of this kind, avoided the whole species of those birds. And these indeed were certain common religious ceremonies; but there were different ceremonies, which varied according to the class of the priests that used them, and were adapted to the several divinities. But chastity and purifications were common to all the priests. When also the time arrived in which they were to perform something pertaining to the sacred rites of religion, they spent some days in preparatory ceremonies, some indeed forty-two, but others a greater, and |118 others a less number of days; yet never less than seven days; and during this time they abstained from all animals, and likewise from all pot-herbs and leguminous substances, and, above all, from a venereal connexion with women; for they never at any time had connexion with males. They likewise washed themselves with cold water thrice every day; viz. when they rose from their bed, before dinner, and when they betook themselves to sleep. But if they happened to be polluted in their sleep by the emission of the seed, they immediately purified their body in a bath. They also used cold bathing at other times, but not so frequently as on the above occasion. Their bed was woven from the branches of the palm tree, which they call bais; and their bolster was a smooth semi-cylindric piece of wood. But they exercised themselves in the endurance of hunger and thirst, and were accustomed to paucity of food through the whole of their life. SPAN |
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| 8. Ammonius Hermiae, In Porphyrii Isagogen Sive V Voces, 2.15 (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 168 |
| 9. Anon., Testament of Abraham A, 201 Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 168 |
| 10. Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q402, 4.7 Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray, by chief priest Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 287 |
| 11. Julianus The Theurgist, Oracula Chaldaica, 2.37 Tagged with subjects: •sprinkling, with salt spray, by chief priest Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 287 |
