The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
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Topos
//ˈtɒpɒs//
Synonyms for "topos"
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12 translations across 8 languages.
Czech
1 entries- topos noun (literary theme)
Dutch
2 entries- topos noun (literary theme)
- topos noun (mathematical structure)
French
1 entries- topos noun (mathematical structure)
German
2 entries- Topos noun (literary theme)
- Topos noun (mathematical structure)
Hungarian
1 entries- toposz noun (literary theme)
Japanese
2 entries- トポス noun (literary theme)
- トポス noun (mathematical structure)
Polish
2 entries- topos noun (literary theme)
- topos noun (mathematical structure)
Spanish
1 entries- tópico noun (literary theme)
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