Editing Adamant (section)

==In mythology==
* Adamant is used as a translation in the [[King James Bible]] in [[Ezekiel]] 3:9 for the word [[wikt:שמיר|שמיר]] (Shamir), the original word in the [[Hebrew Bible]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bible Gateway passage: Ezekiel 3:9 - King James Version |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%203%3A9&version=KJV |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=Bible Gateway |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ezekiel 3 / Hebrew - English Bible / Mechon-Mamre |url=https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1203.htm |access-date=2022-11-17 |website=mechon-mamre.org}}</ref>
* In [[Greek mythology]], [[Cronus]] castrated his father [[Uranus (mythology)|Uranus]] using an adamant [[sickle]] given to him by his mother [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hesiod|title=Hesiod's Theogony|year=1987|publisher=Focus Information Group|location=Cambridge, Ma|isbn=9780941051002|pages=[https://archive.org/details/hesiodstheogony00hesi/page/37 37–38 at lines 161–181]|author2=Richard S. Calwell|quote=Quick she [Gaia] made the element of grey adamant, made a great sickle...|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/hesiodstheogony00hesi/page/37}}</ref> An adamantine sickle or sword was also used by the hero [[Perseus]] to decapitate the Gorgon [[Medusa]] while she slept.
* Three Phrygian Dactyls, in the service of the Great Mother as Adraste ({{lang|grc|Ἀδράστη}}), are usually named '''[[Acmon (Dactyl)|Acmon]]''' (the [[anvil]]), '''Damnameneus''' (the [[hammer]]), and '''Celmis''' ([[casting]]). Of Celmis, [[Ovid]] (in ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' iv) made a story that when Rhea was offended at this childhood companion of [[Zeus]], she asked Zeus to turn him to diamond-hard [[adamant]], like a tempered blade. Zeus obliged.<ref>Pierre Grimal, ''The Dictionary of Classical Mythology'', ''s.v.'' "Kelmis"</ref>
* In the Greek tragedy ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'' (translated by G. M. Cookson), [[Hephaestus]] is to bind [[Prometheus]] "to the jagged rocks in adamantine bonds infrangible".
* In [[Hesiod|Hesiod's]] [[Works and Days|''works and days'']], the third race of men [https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodWorksDays.html is compared to adamant], so as to imply great strength.
* In [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'', the gate of [[Tartarus]] is framed with pillars of solid adamant, "that no might of man, nay, not even the sons of heaven, could uproot in war"<ref>Virgil, ''Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6'', trans. H. Rushton Fairclough, rev. G. P. Goold, Loeb Classical Library 63 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1916), p. 571.</ref>
* In [[John Milton]]'s epic poem ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', adamant or adamantine is mentioned eight times. First in Book 1, [[Satan]] is hurled "to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in adamantine chains and penal fire" (lines 47–48). Three times in Book 2 the gates of hell are described as being made of adamantine (lines 436, 646 and 853). In Book 6, Satan "Came towring [''sic''], armd [''sic''] in Adamant and Gold" (line 110), his shield is described as "of tenfold adamant" (line 255), and the armor worn by the fallen angels is described as "adamantine" (line 542). Finally in book 10 the metaphorical "Pinns [''sic''] of Adamant and Chains" (lines 318–319) bind the world to Satan, and thus to sin and death.<ref>John Milton, ''Paradise Lost'', Book one, two, six, and ten (1667). (see [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20 text from Project Gutenberg])</ref>
* In some versions of the [[Alexander Romance]], [[Alexander the Great]] builds walls of Adamantine, the [[Gates of Alexander]], to keep the giants [[Gog and Magog]] from pillaging the peaceful southern lands.{{Citation needed|date=July 2016}}
* In The [[Hypostasis of the Archons]], [[Gnostic]] scripture from the [[Nag Hammadi Library]] refers to the Adamantine Land, an incorruptible place 'above' from whence the spirit came to dwell within man so that he became Adam, he who moves upon the ground with a living soul.<ref>The Hypostasis of the Archons. (Translated by Bentley Laton and the Coptic Gnostic Library Project [http://gnosis.org/naghamm/hypostas.html])</ref>