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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →Warmth for digestion and regeneration
ventre equino; venter equinus; Venter equinus
The phrase literally means horse’s belly; edition note 9 explains it as the warm horse-dung environment used for digestion.
Meaning
The phrase literally means horse’s belly; edition note 9 explains it as the warm horse-dung environment used for digestion. In Book VI it is the setting of putrefaction in the serpent and wood narratives. The workshop expression names sustained warmth, while the very different alleged outcomes depend on the material being treated. Those regenerative claims remain part of the historical theory, not established biological results.
Places to read
- Book 6 · Resuscitation · Passage 5Latin“in ventre equino putrefiant”
From the book
Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →Horse's-belly warmth
venter equinus
The horse’s belly names the historical warming environment assigned chiefly to putrefaction and digestion.
Meaning
The horse’s belly names the historical warming environment assigned chiefly to putrefaction and digestion. Its place among ash, sand, baths, and other heat conditions makes it part of the operational catalogue, not a recommendation to work inside an animal’s stomach. The expression preserves a workshop idiom whose significance is controlled, sustained warmth within the source’s practice.
Places to read
- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 14Latin“venter equinus”
From the book
Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →Horse-dung warmth in artificial generation
Ventris Equini; ventris equini; ventre equino; venter equinus
The literal phrase is “horse’s belly,” but the edition explains its technical use as a warm horse-dung environment for digestion.
Meaning
The literal phrase is “horse’s belly,” but the edition explains its technical use as a warm horse-dung environment for digestion. It should not be read as an instruction to place a vessel inside a living animal. In the bird and homunculus accounts it supplies sustained warmth within alleged regenerative processes. Naming the environment explains historical terminology; it does not validate the extraordinary biological outcomes attributed to it.
Places to read
- Book 1 · Generation · Passage 3Latin“Ventris Equini”