What are the 5 elements?

Question

Are the five elements earth, fire, wind, water, heart?? If not what are they??

Answer 1

The elements are FOUR and not five.The four elements which the greeks believed, well through plato's teaching to have been the building blocks for the formation of our universe are; Earth, Fire, Wind, and water.

Answer 2

The concept of elements has actually varied across cultures and through time, both how many elements there are and what those elements are. Most cultures included water, fire, and earth as elements, with a popular fourth being wind, air, or spirit. Some cultures, such as the Chinese, had the three common elements, along with the elements of wood and metal. Other cultures made a fifth element that was some kind of binding force between the other elements, such as life or heart. In these cultures the fifth element is often given a special place over the others, although actually less important when distinguishing the elemental compositions of different objects. Although probably not the best example, using the question's reference to Captain Planet, by itself, heart could be seen to be the weakest of the elements, but it stands apart as the one necessary to unite them into Captain Planet. Scientifically, we now have many elements which can be found in the periodic table of elements, none of which will be found in any common list of basic 4 or 5 elements. Also referencing a previous answer which said you were thinking of the movie The Fifth Element, you can see how that fifth element is given presidency over the other elements, even though they actually are all needed to combine into one, the emphasis is also but on the fifth element (except in cultures such as the Chinese, which treated them all about equally).

Answer 3

fire and heat are same categorically as elements, although not by physics and chemistry

There are four elements only that matter-cosmos is made up of:(fire, earth, air,water) same elements used in astrological signs-houses, but chinese usually add metal and even wood. Native american also add wind, but it is part of the air element.

So you are missing wind, metal and wood.

(Metal and wood are part of the earth element).

Vedic sciences (Vedas) explain how all these work, are created, interlinked, etc. VERY COOL.

Answer 4

earth wind and fire are the FOUR main elements believed to make up all of the elements by the ancient Greeks

Answer 5

In Asian lore, the elements are water, wood, earth, fire, and metal (and they "modify" the zodiac in that order).
The Greeks recognized four: earth, air, water, and fire (which rotate through the zodiac in that order).
There are also four humours which correlated to the elements and seasons.
R&B recognizes three: Earth, Wind, & Fire.
And 4H is head, hands, health, and heart, but heart has never been one of the elements.

Answer 6

Indians (India) beleive in the five elements and also Astrologically there are five elements. Prthvi (Earth) Up (Water) Tejo (Fire) Vaayu (Air) Akash (Space).

Answer 7

scientiffically, there are 90 natural elements. if you mean the basic elements from anime movies, i can only think of four: water (hydrogen+oxygen), air(made of several of the 90 elements), fire ( not a solid, liqid, or gas), and earth( also made up of several ntural elements).

Answer 8

Earth, fire, wind, water, and metal

Answer 9

The chinese believed the 5 was wood and they had another element which we don't every hardly talk about is Metal.

Answer 10

There are only four elements. You must be thinking of that movie "The Fifth Element." There is no such thing. That movie is fiction.