The VA 243 is a 6,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet housed in the British Museum.
Nevertheless, its magnetic attraction in that extreme case would not be on water or clay, but on iron and its kindred ores.
By suspending a ball of magnetic iron along side a suspended cup of water, it will be discovered there is no magnetic attraction between them, more than between two cups of water, or between two vessels of clay.
Admitting the general parts of the moon, as to iron and stone and clay and water, to be alike and like unto the corporeal earth, the power of the magnetic attraction of the earth, as against the moon's, to hold the tides from rising, would be in the ratio of different sizes of the two bodies, and their respective distances from the water contended for.
As to the attraction (so-called) between two earth substances, as granite, or sandstone, or lead, or gold, or clay, or water, it is far less than between two steel magnets.
Here are iron, and copper, and granite, and water, and lead, and clay, and nitrogen, and oxygen, and hydrogen, and various other kinds of corporeal substances, as known on the earth, and besides these, millions of things not known on the earth.
Consequently the solutions in the higher atmosphere not only contain moisture, but they contain iron, lead, zinc, gold, platinum, clay, granite, diamonds and all other things known to exist on the earth, and many others besides.
In the time of luts there fall''' on a planet condensed earthy substances, as clay, stones, ashes, molten metals disseminated, and so on, in such great quantities that it can be compared to snow-storms, piling up corporeal substance on the earth in places to a depth of many feet, and in drifts to hundreds of feet.
That they may learn to know of a truth they are but machines and playthings in the hands of angels and Gods; that they are worked like clay in a potter's hand, till they cry out: Enough!
And God (Gitchee) perceiving the virtue and wisdom of men, sent His angels to teach man the mystery of canal-making; to teach man to compound clay with lime and sand, to hold water; to teach man to find the gau, the level, and the force of water.
The angels also taught man to make pots and kettles; to burn the clay in suitable shape; to find copper ore and silver ore, and gold and lead for the floors of the oracle chambers, clean and white shining, suitable for angels.
But these are my chosen, that live in mounds, and in cities with wooden walls, and clay walls.
Jehovih's Gods and Lords mold the inhabitants of the earth as clay is molded in a potter's hand.
And the I'hins, men and women, with their servants, built images of stone and clay and wood unto the Lord, and stood them by the altars of sacrifice.
And the I'hins covered the roadways of the earth over with idols of stone and wood and clay, and the angels of heaven descended to the idols and established thereabout heavenly kingdoms.
In late 1946 or early 1947, young Bedouin shepherds near the ancient settlement of Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea (modern-day West Bank), stumbled upon a cave containing large clay jars with leather and papyrus scrolls.
Description: A small clay figurine found at a depth of 97 meters, in deposits that suggest an age of around 2 million years, implying a possible advanced ancient culture in North America.
Description: An ancient clay tablet listing Sumerian kings, including semi-mythical rulers with reigns of tens of thousands of years, suggesting a lost history that modern scholars have difficulty accounting for.
Description: A small baked clay figurine found 97 meters below the surface, in a layer of earth that suggests it could be millions of years old.
Canaanite and Ugaritic religion is the old coastal faith of what is now Syria and Lebanon, written on clay at Ugarit.
The clay tablets from Ugarit (Ras Shamra, Syria) preserve the Baal Cycle.
The goat reappeared and said they could marry themselves, but they would have to put a hoe-handle and a clay pot with a broken bottom on their roof to signify that they are relatives.
He planted palms, asked Olorun to create the sun, and, in time, created people from sculpted clay.
Mangaia (Cook Islands):The rain god Aokeu ("Red Circle" for the red clay he washes around the island), who was lowly born of the drippings from stalactites, disputed with the ocean god Ake to see which was more powerful.
Meanwhile, Aokeu caused five days and nights of rain, washing the red clay and small stones into the ocean and carving deep valleys.
Aokeu was judged the victor, because the sea had been stopped by the rocky heights, but but the rains flowed far into the ocean, carrying red clay to mark their progress.
They created a man out of earth, putting in grass for the stomach and heart, clay for liver and kidneys, pulverized red stone mixed with water for blood.
It lay down in the south; Naigaicho covered it with clay and plants to create the mountains.
The manido from the bottom formed a clay figure, shook his rattle and talked, and the figure came to life.
The Great Spirit put the last rib from the woman into a clay figure and likewise created a man.
Then he made all kinds of birds and creeping things, and he made clay images and commanded them to become living humans.
The Creator molded new people from clay at Tiahuanacu.
Upon completion, the Hogan is dedicated in a sacred ceremony, marking the four directions—east, south, west, and north—with white clay or cornmeal.
This ceremony includes marking four directions with white clay or cornmeal inside the Hogan, starting with the east and moving in a sacred pattern.
Earthly materials like clay, water, and plant essences were also used in creation, symbolizing humanity’s connection to Earth’s ecology and the diversity within it.
Obatala felt that the world needed life, so he began to mold figures from clay.
"The first man was made of clay; but he had no intelligence, and was consumed in the water."
Having collected materials for the purpose, they found a very adhesive clay and bitumen, with which they speedily commenced to build the tower; and having reared it to the greatest possible altitude, so that they say it reached to the sky, the Lord of the Heavens, enraged, said to the inhabitants of the sky, 'Have you observed how they of the earth have built a high and haughty tower to mount hither, being enamored of the light of the sun and
The savage, having nothing but wooden vessels in which to cook, covered the wood with clay; the day hardened in the fire.
When the storm ceased--it lasted till twelve, mid-day--the roofs and walls of the buildings in town, the street pavement, the door-steps and back-yards were found covered with a deposit of volcanic débris, holding together like clay, dark-gray in color, and in some places more than an inch thick, with small, shining metallic particles on the surface, which could be easily identified as iron pyrites.
The body of this strange personage, which was chiefly naked, was painted with white clay, so as to resemble at a distance a white man.
Nay, but one wife each knew, though when she passed to higher ether—soul instead of clay—another came to bless with tenderest love.
For, life imbued, the smallest creeping thing is fraught with beauty in comparison with modeled clay or stroke of brush by man.
Yet not the beaten melody ye hear, but soft, or silent to the clay ear deaf to higher notes.
Streams of ether carried shape to other realm—the shape akin to substance, yet the clay shape lay in state when soul did journey.
Such is Man—the man of clay, all imbued with life which is the motive force.
The iodide, the melting; bitumen in the clay in finest form, the pliable, and thus doth lead stand forth enformed by heat which melted earth's greatest bulk long ages since.
These forms constituted the inchoate material placed at man's disposal, and the clay was ready to assume whatever shape the potter's hands might mould it into.
To the extreme west of the Punjab there is found rich clay land [227]as well as barren heaths, which seem endless, occasionally varied lovely spots on which the eye rests enchanted.
In such a state, individuals can reshape their spiritual energies much like wet clay.
Clay figurine from Idaho, dated 2 million years.
Kiss me once as thou wouldst if I were thine own wife in the sight of the world, as I am in that of Incal, and having died, thou wert about to confide my clay to the Unfed Light."
As for this, thy poor clay, over it we will say final words, for it hath done its work and is committed to Navazzamin.
"Unto Incal this soul, unto earth this clay."
As it might be done to-day didst thou but know how, and that day is not far off when thou wilt again uncover the knowledge, so, in that time, we transmuted clay, first raising its atomic speed so that it became white light of a pale illuminating power and then reducing it to the, so to speak, chemical "mile-post" of aluminum, and this at a cost not nearly so great as in this modern day it takes to get iron from its ores.
But a metal which might be obtained from any ledge of slate rock, or a bed of clay, was so inexpensive as to be the chief base metal in use.
Feet partly of Iron and partly of Clay: Represents a divided kingdom, often interpreted as the later Roman Empire or subsequent divided nations.
It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer.
Alternative: “Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were turned into one, and became as dust from the harvest floor, and the wind swept them away so that no trace of them was found.
In the work of altering the configuration of the surface of the great promontory from that of a plain to the more beautiful variations of hills and their intervening depressions, the scheme pursued had been to make keyed-shells of rock, of enormous strength, in the form of terraces, and leaving arched passages wherever the avenues intersected such elevations, to fill in the interiors then remaining with a concrete of clay, rubble and cement carefully tamped.