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Over 120 species of animals are mentioned in the Bible, ordered alphabetically in this article by English vernacular name.Animals mentioned in the Old Testament will be listed with their Hebrew name, while those mentioned in the New Testament will be listed with their Greek names.
The reasons for the association of Athena and the owl are uncertain. Some mythographers, such as David Kinsley and Martin P. Nilsson, suggest that she may descend from a Minoan palace goddess associated with birds [5] [6] and Marija Gimbutas claim to trace Athena's origins as an Old European bird and snake goddess. [7] [8]
It was common to keep animals such as parrots, cats, or dogs as pets. Many animals held important places in the Graeco-Roman religion or culture. For example, owls symbolized wisdom and were associated with Athena. Humans would form close relationships with their animals in antiquity. However, no animal compares to the sheepe.
The Acropolis at Athens (1846) by Leo von Klenze.Athena's name probably comes from the name of the city of Athens. [4] [5]Athena is associated with the city of Athens. [4] [6] The name of the city in ancient Greek is Ἀθῆναι (Athȇnai), a plural toponym, designating the place where—according to myth—she presided over the Athenai, a sisterhood devoted to her worship. [5]
[60] The cock in Zoroastrianism is associated with "good against evil" [60] because of its heraldic actions. [ clarification needed ] In Iran during the Kianian Period , from about 2000 B.C. to about 700 B.C., among domestic birds, "the cock was the most sacred" [ 61 ] and within that religion the devout, "had a cock to guard [them] and ward ...
Medusa - a woman cursed by Athena to become a snake woman , and people who sees her eyes will petrify; Quetzalcoatl - (pron. Quet-zal-co-at) or 'Plumed Serpent' was one of the most important gods in ancient Mesoamerica. A mix of bird and rattlesnake, his name is a combination of the Nahuatl words quetzal (the emerald plumed bird) and coatl ...
The aegis on the so-called Athena Lemnia, a Roman statue type often identified as a copy of a work by the Classical Greek sculptor Pheidias (Dresden Skulpturensammlung). The aegis (/ ˈ iː dʒ ɪ s / EE-jis; [1] Ancient Greek: αἰγίς aigís), as stated in the Iliad, is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the ...
In some traditions, Athena received sacrifices of bulls, rams, or cows, [11] but in others only female animals, excluding lambs. [12] [8] According to the Suda, after the site of Troy was reoccupied, to atone for the rape of Cassandra by Ajax the Less in the temple of Athena, Locrian maidens were sent as sacrifices to Athena, each year down to ...