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Eagle

Nature · Beings

A high-soaring raptor. Imperial standards, Zeus’s bird, and ordinary hunting eagles share the animal, not one cult.

Hellenic religion

  • Eagle appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias notes eagles among birds of Zeus cult and sanctuary omen. A named eagle in that periegesis, not aquila as a constellation dump and not a Roman legion standard alone.

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

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  • Eagle is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats the eagle among birds with gall and other parts entering Roman pharmacological speech. A named eagle in that encyclopedia, not Pausanias sanctuary speech already walked and not aetites the eaglestone as the mineral already filed.

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

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  • Eagle is associated with Ascension.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Ascension was compared to the eagle, the bird which soars heavenward and fixes its gaze on the sun — eagle is that Ascension emblem.

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

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  • Eagle is associated with Spirit.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Eagle was an ancient Hebrew symbol of the Spirit, rarer in Art than the Dove and used with Old-Testament persons — the eagle marks that Spirit.

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

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  • Eagle is associated with David.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Eagle is placed on the sceptre King David holds, seeming to suggest the words of the Psalm he sings to the Harp — the eagle sits with that David.

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

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  • Eagle is historically related to Serpent.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, an evangelist eagle is shown grasping a serpent in its claws to express victory over sin — the eagle holds that serpent.

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

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  • Eagle is historically related to Psalm.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, an eagle is placed on the sceptre King David holds and appears to suggest the words of the psalm he sings to the harp — the eagle keys that psalm.

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

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  • Eagle is historically related to Fish.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, an Irish gospel book shows the eagle holding a fish in its claws as the emblem of baptism — the eagle holds that fish.

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

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  • Eagle is historically related to Sun.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Ascension is compared to the eagle that soars heavenward and fixes its gaze on the sun, as on a Bitton church sculpture.

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

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  • Eagle is historically related to Nimbus.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, a St Alban’s Abbey roof painting sets the eagle with an ornamented nimbus matching the glory given to the corresponding lamb.

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

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  • Eagle is historically related to Baptism.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, an Irish gospel-book assigns St John’s eagle holding a fish in its claws as the emblem of baptism.

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

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  • Double represents Eagle.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems, the double-headed eagle is the peculiar attribute of the prophet Elisha, intelligible from his petition for a double portion of Elijah’s spirit — the double-headed eagle marks that Elisha attribute.

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

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  • Elijah is associated with Eagle.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems, the double-headed eagle attribute of Elisha is intelligible from his petition to Elijah for a double portion of spirit when Elijah was taken up — Elijah’s ascent is the petition hinge of that eagle emblem.

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

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  • Third symbolizes Eagle.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems, the third living creature, that of the eagle, prefigures the evangelist whose history opens with the voice in the wilderness — the third creature is that eagle sign.

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

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  • Labarum is historically related to Eagle.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, after Constantine’s conversion the labarum took the place of the eagle on the Roman standard and was stamped on imperial coins — the labarum replaces that eagle on the standard.

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

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  • Dove is historically related to Eagle.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Holy Spirit appears as the dove as inspirer of men’s thoughts, while the eagle is the rarer Hebrew spirit mark used with Old Testament persons — dove and eagle are alternative Spirit figures.

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

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Nahua tradition

Norse tradition

  • Eagle appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning seats an eagle atop Yggdrasil with the hawk Veðrfölnir between its eyes. A named eagle in that prose, not Pausanias Zeus-bird speech alone and not Hræsvelgr as a wind-eagle flatten into one id.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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Roman religion

  • Eagle appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid seats the eagle among bird-omens and divine bird speech of the epic’s sky signs. A named eagle in that Roman omen speech, not Pausanias sanctuary eagle restated and not a legionary standard dump alone.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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Northwest Coast tradition

European folklore

  • Eagle displayed is historically related to Eagle.

    Boutell’s English Heraldry treats the eagle displayed — wings spread and legs apart — among imperial and English armorial bird charges. A named eagle-displayed historically related to the eagle, not double-headed-eagle and not aquila as the Roman standard object alone.

    from Charles Boutell · English Heraldry, 1867

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