Nature

nature_spirit earth Christian corroborated · 2

Nature is a personification who appears in a "glorious bower" along with Mercury and Prometheus. Together, they usher in the dance of the masquing courtiers. The courtiers are described as "Sons of Nature."

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

First attested
1000 BCE
Attested period
1120 – 1699
Historical notes
Appears in Ben Jonson's masque, Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists.

Relationships

allied with
Mercury, Prometheus
serves
God
co occurs with
the devil, Mercurius
child of
God

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Sources

Source passages

“glorious bower," in which Mercury, along with Prometheus and a personification of Nature, ushered in the dance of the masquing courtiers, who were twelve "Sons of Nature."”

#38076 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“In cosmology he teaches that God first created "Nature", whose role it was to act as his intermediary (Dei auctoris vicaria).”

#44641 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free