The provenance file on Anima

Provenance record 033 · Anima · one temple, fully accounted for.

Provenance

1. The attestation. ANIMA, from the tradition's own record. On record: Oxford Latin Dictionary, s.v. anima, Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary, s.v. anima, Cicero, De natura deorum and Tusculanae disputationes, Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.

2. The narrative record. The Breath of Life — In Classical Latin anima first means breath, air, or breeze. Cicero uses it for the vital breath that sustains life, and Lucretius describes the soul as a subtle, airy stuff mixed with blood and heat, dispersed at death. The Rational Soul — Early Latin Christianity adopted anima as the standard translation for Greek psychē and Hebrew nephesh. Augustine's De anima and later scholastic treatises made the anima rationalis the immortal, thinking part of the human person, created by God and destined for salvation or damnation.

3. The current holding. The temple at /anima/, classified Tier 2. The restoration keeps one feature the ASCII form drops. One is enough to matter, and the label says so plainly: Tier-2.

4. The documented resonances. Education, Research & Knowledge, Mythic Name Restoration, Writing, Publishing & Media — seats argued and weighted in the pattern atlas, read through the myths in this temple's Resonance File.

5. The primary sources. Theogony, Homeric Hymns, Works and Days — the library this file answers to, open at the Sacred Texts collection.

6. The continuing record. Anima is one of the most quietly influential words in Western languages. It underlies 'animal' (a being that has breath), 'animate' (to give life), 'animation' (the illusion of life in images), and 'animism' (the attribution of soul to natural objects).

At a Glance

• Restored name: Anima
• ASCII form: anima
• Meaning: "Breath, air, soul"
• Domain of influence: Soul, Breath, Life Force
• Pantheon: Greek
• Classification: Tier 2
• Original script: ANIMA
• Series: The Restoration Files, No. 33 of 542

The Emblems

The name does not travel alone. Breath or wind — The invisible current that enters at birth and departs at death.; Bird — A widespread symbol for the soul as something light, winged, and capable of leaving the body.; Blood or pulse — The physiological sign that anima is at work in the living body.. Each emblem is filed in the temple's record with its own provenance, the same discipline the spelling gets.

For the Voice

'AH-nih-mah' — stress the first syllable; the middle vowel is short and light. The reconstructed line runs `/ˈa.nɪ.ma/` — the temple's pronunciation atlas carries the phonemes one by one.

The Discipline It Answers To

This restoration belongs to Greek, a tradition that invented both the chorus and the critique. The rules that govern it are not house style; they are the tradition's own scholarship, applied with the same care here as in any edition — and published, with the sources, so the file can be checked the way an edition can be checked. The restoration keeps one feature the ASCII form drops. One is enough to matter, and the label says so plainly: Tier-2.

The File Continues

Read the founding dispatch for the name's full story, the Resonance File for the archetype at work — or the whole archive in one sitting.

Continue the series — previous file: Angrboða (read it here) · next file: Animus (read it here).

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