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Neptune and Salacia in a mosaic, Herculaneum, 1st c. AD Neptune and Amphitrite by Sebastiano Ricci, c. 1690. In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia (/ s ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə / sə-LAY-shə, Latin: [saˈɫaːkia]) was the female divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean. [1]
Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. [1] [2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. [3] The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book ...
Daughters of the salt-makers, and many more, engaged in these dances. [1] In the Florentine Codex, Sahagún describes the range of participants in Huixtocihuatl's festival. He says, "All gathered together and took their places, the salt people and the salt-makers - the old women, the mature women, the maidens, and maidens recently matured." [7]
In Aztec mythology, Huixtocihuatl was a fertility goddess who presided over salt and salt water. [16] Salt is an auspicious substance in Hinduism and is used in ceremonies like house-warmings and weddings. [17] In Jainism, an offering of raw rice with a pinch of salt signifies devotion and salt is sprinkled on a person's cremated remains before ...
A pillar of salt named "Lot's wife" is located near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom in Israel. [4] A second one is shown to tourists across the Dead Sea, in Jordan, not far from the ruins of the Byzantine Monastery of St Lot. [5] The Talmud states that a blessing should be said at the place where the pillar of salt is.
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
The primacy of water gods is reminiscent of, and may even have been influenced by, ancient Near Eastern mythology - where Tiamat (salt water) and Apsu (fresh water) are the first gods of the Enuma Elish, and where the Spirit of God is said to have "hovered over the waters" in Genesis. Pontus is the primordial deity of the sea.
In Athens Poseidon was an inland god who created the salt-sea Erecthēιs (Ερεχθηίς), "sea of Erechtheus". In Acropolis his cult was superimposed on the cult of the local ancestral figure Erechtheus. [2] In Athens and Asine he was worshipped in the house of the king during the Mycenean period. [35]