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Partridge — Partridges are mentioned three times in the Bible: 1 Kings 26:20, Jeremiah 17:11, and Sirach 11:30 (in the Apocrypha). Francolins and sand partridges are found in the Holy Land. Peacock — A common translation of תֻּכִּיִּים ( tukkiyyîm ), mentioned in 1 Kings 10:22 and 2 Chronicles 9:21 as an import from Tarshish ...
Harpy – A half-bird, half-woman creature of Greek mythology, portrayed sometimes as a woman with bird wings and legs. Hippalectryon – A creature with the front half of a horse and the rear half has a rooster's wings, tail, and legs. Hippocampus (or Hippocamp) – A Greek mythological creature that is half-horse half-fish.
A horse has forelegs and hind legs. It has two hind legs. Fore plus two hind is six, thus it has six legs; Six is an odd number of legs for a horse to have; But the number must also be even! The only number which is both even and odd is infinity (note: strictly speaking, infinity is not a number but...) Therefore, a horse has an infinite number ...
The rider of the second horse is often taken to represent War [4] (he is often pictured holding a sword upwards as though ready for battle) [31] or mass slaughter. [2] [9] [32] His horse's colour is red (πυρρός, purrhós from πῦρ, fire), and in some translations, the colour
Lamassu at the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.. The goddess Lama appears initially as a mediating goddess who precedes the orans and presents them to the deities. [3] The protective deity is clearly labelled as Lam(m)a in a Kassite stele unearthed at Uruk, in the temple of Ishtar, goddess to which she had been dedicated by king Nazi-Maruttash (1307–1282 BC). [9]
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The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
Sitting with your legs nicely crossed is one thing, but this woman somehow managed to twist her legs around each other nearly three times!