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The finger. Person "giving the middle finger". In Western culture, " the finger ", or the middle finger (as in giving someone the ( middle) finger, flipping the bird[ 1] or flipping someone off) [ 1] is an obscene hand gesture. The gesture communicates moderate to extreme contempt, and is roughly equivalent in meaning to "fuck you", "fuck me ...
Phoenix (mythology) The phoenix is an immortal bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. While it is part of Greek mythology, it has analogs in many cultures, such as Egyptian and Persian. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by rising from the ashes of its predecessor.
Garuda is described as the king of the birds and a kite-like figure. [7] [8] He is shown either in a zoomorphic form (a giant bird with partially open wings) or an anthropomorphic form (a man with wings and some ornithic features). Garuda is generally portrayed as a protector with the power to swiftly travel anywhere, ever vigilant and an enemy ...
Thunderbird is a Bolliger and Mabillard Launched Wing Coaster that opened at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana in 2015. Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client. The Thunderbird is the cap badge and symbol of the Canadian Forces Military Police since 1968.
Musician Neil Young has a song "Beautiful Bluebird" about a lost love on his 2007 album Chrome Dreams II . "Blue Bird" is a song by Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions from their 2009 album Through the Devil Softly . A blue bird like device can be found in "The Bluebird of Zappiness" a 2010 episode of Cyberchase.
The common nightingale has also been used as a symbol of poets or their poetry. [17] Poets chose the nightingale as a symbol because of its creative and seemingly spontaneous song. Aristophanes's The Birds and Callimachus both evoke the bird's song as a form of poetry. Virgil compares the mourning of Orpheus to the “lament of the nightingale ...
Doves as symbols. White doves at the Blue Mosque, Mazar-i-Sharif. Doves, typically domestic pigeons white in plumage, are used in many settings as symbols of peace, freedom, or love. Doves appear in the symbolism of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and paganism, and of both military and pacifist groups.
In medieval France, the language of the birds ( la langue des oiseaux) was a secret language of the Troubadours, connected with the Tarot, allegedly based on puns and symbolism drawn from homophony, e. g. an inn called au lion d'or ("the Golden Lion") is allegedly "code" for au lit on dort "in the bed one sleeps". [ 11]