animal
Ram
Ram as an animal people have named and used. Strength, Leadership, Protection — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Vedic tradition
Ram appears in Vedic tradition.
The Rigveda names the ram among flock and sacrifice speech. A named Vedic animal in that corpus, not Aries as the zodiac sign already walked and not a generic sheep dump.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Hellenic religion
Ram appears in Hellenic religion.
Pausanias notes rams among sacrificial and dedicatory animals. A named ram in that periegesis, not sheep as the flock noun and not the Golden Fleece already walked.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Egyptian religion
Ram appears in Egyptian religion.
Herodotus’s Egyptian logos notes rams among Theban sacred animals. A named ram in that traveler’s speech, not goat as the Mendes keep-apart and not a zodiac Aries flatten alone.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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sources
- The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.
- Description of Greece · Pausanias
Pausanias, Description of Greece.
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.