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Duenech, 126–7
Dürer, Albrecht, 179
dyad, 43, 47, 50–5, 151
see also sulfur and mercury
eagle, 53, 113, 178
as a woman, in sexual
alchemy, 163
earth, 27–8, 60–1, 179
see also elements, Greek;
terra fœtida
earth artists, 104
earth tones, 70, 85
ebullition, 145
Edaus, 32
Eden, four rivers of, 61
egg, 57–9, 77
hermetic, 165
white, 16, 168
yolk, 21
Egyptian Blue, 66
electrum, 108–9
elements, Greek, 55–64, 109, 158,
181
symbols of, 64, 177–8
elements, modern list of forgotten,
112
elephants, 24
El Greco, 171–3
Eliade, Mircea, 102
elixir of life, 154, 181
elk, 150
see also stag
emerald, 56
Emerald Green, 14, 66, 106, 195
Emmens, Stephen, 68, 197
encaustic, 132
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 23
engraving, 98–9
epilepsy, 149–50
Erämetsä, 39
Eskimos, 25
essence, 181
Ethiops mineral, 20
INDEX 231
Evangelists, the four, 61
Eve, 60–1, 82
exaltation, 145
excrement, 69, 71, 80, 82, 84, 95,
136–7, 179
see also bile;
horse, manure;
faeces
explosion, 144
Expressionism, 117–9
extravasation, 160
faeces, 149–50
Falloppio, Gabriele, 168
fat, 56, 139
father, 157–60
Faust, 150
female, 54
feminine, 53
fermentation, 143–4, 145
ferrocyanides, color of flame of, 66
ferrous sulfate, see copperas
fiberglass, 34
fig juice, see juices
film, 34
fire, 29, 57, 60–1, 107–8, 179
as sulfur, 103
colors of, 66
four senses of, 111
wetness of, 102
see also elements, Greek
fireflies, 185
fish,
glue, 20
rocks in the shape of, 24
rotting, 70
symbol for saltpeter, 179
fixation, 145
fixity, 53, 56, 123, 158
symbols of, 122–3
Flaubert, Gustave, 198
flesh color, 93
Flood, the, 85
Fludd, Robert, 61, 77, 84