Animals in the heavens — Mythoi

Motif

Animals in the heavens.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical animals. · view the constellation · filed as B7

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter III: Thoth the Master of Wisdom
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LIV LIV. Types of Animal Sacrament
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 5, Section XXXV

Within the index

Filed under Mythical animals.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Animals rule celestial spheres Mythical animals surround God's throne Mythical bird running before the sun bears inscription of golden letters

Filed beside it

Animal elders. Mythical ancestors of the present animals Animal totems Fantastic beasts, birds, etc., in art

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