animal
Bat
Bat as an animal people have named and used. Intuition, Transition, Vision — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Bat is used in Medicine.
Pliny’s Natural History treats the bat among flying animals entering Roman pharmacological speech. A named bat in that encyclopedia, not Camazotz as the Popol Vuh bat-house being and not a vampire dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
used in · sourced · documented
Nahua tradition
Bat appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records quimichin / tzinacan speech in Book 11 animal chapters — named bat among night animals. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific
Hellenic religion
Bat appears in Hellenic religion.
Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 4 turns the Minyades into bats for refusing Bacchus’s rites. A named bat metamorphosis in that poem, not a generic cave-mammal dump and not Camazotz as a second tradition.
from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE
appears in · sourced · documented
sources
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
- Metamorphoses · Ovid
Ovid, Metamorphoses.