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Camel

Beings · Nature

Camel as an animal people have named and used. Endurance, reserve, desert crossing — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Camel is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats the camel among land animals of Africa and Asia with milk, flesh, and other uses entering Roman handbook speech. A named camel in that encyclopedia, not a desert-trade dump alone and not a giraffe camelopardalis flatten.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Camel is historically related to Wool.

    In al's The Jewish Encyclopedia, Camel is placed beside Wool as concrete shop companions.

    from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906

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  • Dozen is used in Camel.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, Arab bride-offers may be camels, or a dozen of cows — a dozen marks that camel-scale offer rank.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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Islam

  • Camel appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an repeatedly names the camel among created signs and provision (including ‘do they not look at the camel how it is created’). A named animal in that revelation, not a desert-travel stereotype dump alone.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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Hellenic religion

  • Camel appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus notes camels among Arabian and Persian baggage and army speech in the traveler frame. A named camel in that ethnography, not a desert-tourism dump and not Pliny pharmacy alone.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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