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Dolphin

Beings · Nature

Dolphin as an animal people have named and used. Harmony, Joy, Unity — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Dolphin is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats dolphin among marine animals entering Roman pharmacological and natural-history speech. A named dolphin in that encyclopedia, not a modern aquarium dump and not a constellation flatten.

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

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  • Dolphin is associated with Anchor.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the dolphin is twined round the anchor, the emblem of hope — the dolphin sits with that anchor emblem.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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Hellenic religion

  • Dolphin appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias notes dolphins among Apollo and Poseidon dedication and sanctuary image speech. A named dolphin in that periegesis, not Pliny pharmacy alone and not constellation Delphinus.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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