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I. NAAMAH, or Noema, Daughter of Lamech and Zillah, and Sister of TubalcainGen. iv. 22.. ‘Tis believed that she found out the Art of spinning Wool, and of making Cloth and Stuffs. She is thought to be the same as Minerva, who is sometimes called Nemanoum by the Greeks1.
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Plutarch. lib. de Iside & Osiride. ↩
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