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Sky and earth separated (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Fire 02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs 02.02 Cosmic symbols and imagery 02.02.03 Fire Pole connecting heaven and earth 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.05 Celestial imagery 01.05.01 Pole connecting heaven and earth	Keywords Atlas Chaldean Oracles
Period 2nd century CE Roman Empire	Channel No channel specified

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Chaldean Oracles 6:
But (Atlas) holds up the sky and separates it from the earth, so that the things above are not confused with the things below:
“For as girdling, intellectual membrane, he separates,”
according to the oracle,
“the first fire and the other fire which are eager to mingle.”

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Chaldean Oracles 6

Bibliography

Majercik 1989, 51

Majercik, Ruth. The Chaldean Oracles. Text, Translation, and Commentary. Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 5. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1989.

Amar Annus

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