Seal

Hellenic religion

• Seal appears in Hellenic religion.

  Herodotus notes seals among Caspian fauna in the traveler frame. A named seal (the animal) in that speech, not cylinder-seal as the Mesopotamian stamp already walked and not a circus dump.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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Northwest Coast tradition

• Seal appears in Northwest Coast tradition.

  Swanton’s Tlingit collection seats seals among coastal marine animals of hunt and story. A named seal in that ethnography, not otter as the land-otter already filed this pass and not kushtaka.

  from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909

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• Seal is historically related to Wool.

  In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Seal sits with Wool in textile speech — named together on the working page.

  from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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European folklore

• Motto is historically related to Seal.

  Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable seats Motto throughout device and heraldic-phrase speech — short legends that travel with arms, orders, and seals as standing watchwords of a house or state. A named Motto in that device-legend speech, not a catchphrase, and not a bare slogan dump alone.

  from Ebenezer Cobham Brewer · Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1870 (and later PD editions)

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