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This latter word combines the "horn radical" 角 and 虯 's jiu 丩 phonetic. Carr follows Karlgren's reconstructions and suggests qiu < *g'yŏg or jiu < *kyŏg 虯 is "part of a 'twist; coil; wrap' word family" [2] that includes: qiu < *g'yôg 觩 "long and curved; curled up horn" jiu < *klyŏg 樛 "curving branch; twist"
Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The morning dew gathers in their horns and forms the rivers of the world.
The brow-antlered deer is a medium-sized deer, with uniquely distinctive antlers, measuring 100–110 cm. in length with extremely long brow tine, which form the main beam. The two tines form a continuous curve at right angles to the closely set pedicels.
In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian hind (Ancient Greek: Κερυνῖτις ἔλαφος Kerynitis elaphos, Latin: Elaphus Cerynitis), was a creature that lived in Ceryneia, [1] Greece and took the form of an enormous female deer, larger than a bull, [1] with golden antlers [2] like a stag, [3] hooves of bronze or brass, [4] and a "dappled hide", [5] that "excelled in swiftness of foot", [6 ...
Male muntjacs have short antlers, about 10 cm (3.9 in) long, that protrude from long body hair-covered pedicels above the eyes. Females have tufts of fur and small bony knobs instead of antlers. Males also have elongated 2–4 cm (0.79–1.57 in) long, slightly curved upper canines, which can be used in male-male conflicts and inflict serious ...
In Slavic fairytales, Golden-horned deer is a large deer with golden antlers. Golden or silver deer / elk was a popular folk character at the Urals in the 18th century. [ 31 ] There were tales about the mythical creature called Silver Deer, also known as the elk Golden Horns and the goat Silver Hoof .
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As part of the Scythian "Animal Style" a specific motif known as "zoomorphic transformations" was used, whereby parts of the animals were themselves depicted as animals or parts of animals, such as, for example, the branches of deer's antlers and claws of beasts of prey, which were depicted as the heads of birds of prey with curved beaks. [23]