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Donkey

Beings · Nature

Donkey as an animal people have named and used. Stubborn load, sure footing, humble strength — one living kind, not a single symbol.

Islam

  • Donkey appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an names the donkey among beasts of burden and in the parable of books on a donkey’s back (62:5). A named animal in that revelation, not a comic stubbornness dump.

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

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Egyptian religion

  • Donkey appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Egyptian and Libyan logos note asses among ordinary and desert fauna and baggage speech. A named donkey in that traveler’s speech, not horse as the cavalry keep-apart and not a cartoon burro dump.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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  • Donkey is sacred to Typhon.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats the ass/donkey as Typhon’s animal in Egyptian cult speech — reddish ass imagery in Typhon-facing keep-aparts. A named donkey–Typhon cult link under this source, not a Roman pack-animal dump and not a missing ass id.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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Hellenic religion

  • Donkey appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 11 gives Midas ass’s ears after he judges against Apollo’s music. A named donkey/ass metamorphosis mark in that poem, not every pack-animal dump and not Silenus’s mount as the only claim.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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