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  2. List of occult symbols - Wikipedia

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    An ancient symbol of a unicursal five-pointed star circumscribed by a circle with many meanings, including but not limited to, the five wounds of Christ and the five elements (earth, fire, water, air, and soul). In Satanism, it is flipped upside-down. See also: Sigil of Baphomet. Rose Cross: Rosicrucianism / Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

  3. Serpent symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The anthropologist Lynne Isbell has argued that, as primates, the serpent as a symbol of death is built into our unconscious minds because of our evolutionary history.. Isbell argues that for millions of years snakes were the only significant predators of primates, and that this explains why fear of snakes is one of the most common phobias worldwide and why the symbol of the serpent is so ...

  4. Myrmecophobia - Wikipedia

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    Myrmecophobia (/ ˌ m ɜːr m ɪ k oʊ ˈ f oʊ b i ə /) is the inexplicable fear or hatred for ants. [1] It is a type of specific phobia.It is common for those who suffer from myrmecophobia to also have a wider fear of insects in general, as well as spiders (see Arachnophobia).

  5. Animals in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The word Sháhál (usually meaning "lion") might possibly, owing to some copyist's mistake, have crept into the place of another name now impossible to restore. צֶפַע ‎ ṣep̲aʿ (Isaiah 59:5), "the hisser", generally rendered by basilisk in ID.V. and in ancient translations, the latter sometimes calling it regulus. This snake was ...

  6. Ant mimicry - Wikipedia

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    Top: An ant in Mozambique Bottom: An ant-mimicking spider, Myrmarachne Ant mimicry or myrmecomorphy is mimicry of ants by other organisms; it has evolved over 70 times. Ants are abundant all over the world, and potential predators that rely on vision to identify their prey, such as birds and wasps, normally avoid them, because they are either unpalatable or aggressive.

  7. Insects in literature - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphised ants have often been used in fables, children's stories, and religious texts to represent industriousness and cooperative effort. [2] In the Book of Proverbs, ants are held up as a good example for humans for their hard work and cooperation. Aesop did the same in his fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper".

  8. Bill Donohue - Wikipedia

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    The piece included a scene with ants crawling on a crucifix. [85] Donohue called the video "anti-Christian hate speech" and called for its removal, which the Smithsonian did. [ 86 ] Frank Rich described the work as consistent with the use of religious imagery in the Western tradition: "A crucifix is besieged by ants that evoke frantic souls ...

  9. Amphisbaena - Wikipedia

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    Amphisbaena in an illustration from the Aberdeen Bestiary (c. 1200) A medieval amphisbaena. The amphisbaena (/ ˌ æ m f ɪ s ˈ b ɛ ɪ n ə /, / ˌ æ m f ɪ s ˈ b aɪ n ə /, or / ˌ æ m f ɪ s ˈ b iː n ə /, plural: amphisbaenae; Ancient Greek: ἀμφίσβαινα) is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.