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Hawk

Beings · Nature

Hawk as an animal people have named and used. Vision, Intuition, Perspective — one living kind, not a single symbol.

Norse tradition

  • Hawk appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning names Veðrfölnir as the hawk sitting between the eagle’s eyes on Yggdrasil. A named hawk in that prose, not eagle as the larger bird alone and not a falconry dump.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    appears in · sourced · documented

Egyptian religion

  • Hawk is sacred to Horus.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats the hawk as Horus’s bird — hierax speech in Egyptian cult as that Greek treatise tells it. A named hawk–Horus cult link under this source, not falcon as a forced second silhouette and not a generic raptor dump.

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

    sacred to · sourced · culturally specific

Hellenic religion

  • Hawk appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 11 turns Daedalion into a hawk after he leaps from Parnassus in grief for Chione. A named hawk metamorphosis in that poem, not eagle as the same raptor and not every bird-of-prey dump.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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