Editing Dew (section)

=== Historic ===
The book ''[[On the Universe]]'' (''De Mundo'') (composed before 250 BC or between 350 and 200 BC) stated: "Dew is moisture minute in composition falling from a clear sky; ice is water congealed in a condensed form from a clear sky; [[Hoar frost|hoar-frost]] is congealed dew, and 'dew-frost' is dew which is half congealed".<ref name=1908DeMundo>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/demundoarisrich |title=De Mundo |year=1914 |author=Aristotle |author2=Forster, E. S. |author3=Dobson, J. F. |page=End of chapter 3}}</ref>

In Greek mythology, [[Ersa]] is the goddess and personification of dew.
Also, according to the myth, the dew in the morning was created when [[Eos]] (Ersa's aunt), goddess of the dawn, cried for [[Memnon (mythology)|her son]]'s death, although later he received immortality.

Dew, known in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] as טל (''tal''), is significant in the [[Judaism|Jewish religion]] for agricultural and [[theological]] purposes. On the first day of [[Passover]], the ''[[Chazan]]'', dressed in a white ''[[kittel]]'', leads a service in which he prays for dew between that point and [[Sukkot]]. During the rainy season between December and Passover there are also additions in the [[Amidah]] for blessed dew to come together with rain. There are many [[midrash]]im that refer to dew as being the tool for ultimate resurrection.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Resurrection |encyclopedia=[[Jewish Encyclopedia]] |url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=233&letter=R |access-date=21 Dec 2008}}</ref> "Dewy" or "my father is the morning dew" are approximate etymologies of the Hebrew given name, [[Avital (given name)|Avital]].<ref name="Hanks Hardcastle Hodges 2006">{{cite book |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nd05X_awIgC&pg=PT42 |title=A Dictionary of First Names |last2=Hardcastle |first2=Kate |last3=Hodges |first3=Flavia |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-19-861060-1 |series=Oxford paperback reference |page=42 |access-date=2018-11-17 |authorlink=Patrick Hanks}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Abital |url=http://biblesuite.com/hebrew/37.htm |accessdate=2013-06-27}}</ref>

In the Biblical [[Torah]] or [[Old Testament]], dew is used symbolically in {{bibleverse||Deuteronomy|32:2|KJV}}: "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass."<ref>[https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Deuteronomy-Chapter-32/ Deuteronomy 32: King James Version], accessed 22 September 2019</ref>

In the Catholic Mass in the Western Rite, whenever the Second Eucharistic Prayer is used, the priest prays over bread and wine, to God the Father;  ‘Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall, so that they may become for us the Body and  Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ The idea that the Holy Spirit enters the world and our lives in a quiet, undramatic way, ‘like the dewfall’,  has great appeal for many Christians.{{cn|date=July 2024}}