Alchemist Regional, Cultural, Spiritual Terms

Question 1

Koran

Answer 1

• central religious text of Islam
• means “the recitation”
• revealed by God to Muhammad

Question 2

Levanter

Answer 2

• the name of the wind that blows off of Africa into Spain

- related to the conquest of Spain by the Moors

Question 3

Allah

Answer 3

The name of God in Islam

Question 4

Scarab

Answer 4

A beetle that represented God to the Egyptians

Question 5

Maktub

Answer 5

• expression that means “it is written”