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Pelican

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Pelican as an animal people have named and used. Sacrifice, Resilience, Generosity — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Pelican is historically related to Oil.

    In Boutell's English Heraldry, Pelican is named in the finish and formula lemmas beside Oil.

    from Charles Boutell · English Heraldry, 1867

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  • Pelican represents Resurrection.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems, the pelican, besides the Passion sense, had reference to the Resurrection because it was supposed to bring its young to life with its own blood — the pelican represents that blood-reviving resurrection emblem.

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

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  • Pelican is associated with Eucharist.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the pelican was read of the death of Christ and of the Eucharist by which Christians are nourished with his blood — pelican emblems that Eucharist nourishment.

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

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  • Pelican is associated with Cross.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the nest with the pelican and its young ones is placed on the summit of the cross in a Fribourg crucifixion window — the pelican sits at that cross.

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

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  • Pelican is associated with Nest.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the nest with the pelican and its young ones is placed on the summit of the cross — the pelican sits in that nest.

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

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  • Pelican is historically related to Blood.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the pelican is the emblem of the passion and resurrection as it was supposed to bring its young to life with its own blood — the pelican is marked by that blood.

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

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  • Pelican is historically related to David.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, a plate pairs the pelican with king David, who wrote of the resurrection in the 16th Psalm, as corresponding emblems of rising to life — the pelican is set with that David.

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

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  • Pelican is historically related to Lion.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, a plate pairs the pelican with king David and the corresponding subject of the lion awakening its young as twin emblems of rising to life — the pelican is set beside that lion.

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

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  • Pelican is historically related to Phoenix.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the phoenix and the pelican are combined with Samson and the lion as a type of victory over death — pelican sits with that phoenix as resurrection marks.

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

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  • Pelican is historically related to Altar.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, the pelican is still placed near the altar in modern churches as an allusion to the blood shed for the sins of many.

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

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  • Christianity is used in Pelican.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems, after the phoenix is brought into Christianity as a Resurrection emblem, the pelican is taken as an emblem of the Passion with reference also to the Resurrection — Christianity adopts the pelican for that Passion/Resurrection emblem use.

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

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  • Crucifixion is associated with Pelican.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the pelican-and-nest emblem is taken from a representation of the crucifixion in a painted window of Fribourg cathedral — the crucifixion hosts that pelican.

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

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  • Peacock is historically related to Pelican.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, among birds the peacock, the phoenix, and the pelican are named together as especial emblems of rising from the grave — peacock sits with that pelican as resurrection marks.

    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 Pelican.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the pelican is called a more important bird-symbol than the dove because it alludes to the Saviour, though less early and frequent — the dove is measured against that pelican.

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

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