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
- child of
- God
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (1)
encyclopedia (1)
- peer reviewed
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