Unicorn

Roman religion

• Unicorn appears in Roman religion.

  Pliny’s Natural History seats the monoceros among fabulous and reported beasts of Book 8 natural history speech. A named unicorn in that encyclopedia report, not a sacred_to cult animal and not rhinoceros as a forced modern identity flatten.

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

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• Unicorn is historically related to Oil.

  In Boutell's English Heraldry, Unicorn is kept among the working lemmas, companion to Oil.

  from Charles Boutell · English Heraldry, 1867

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• Unicorn is associated with Incarnation.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the legend of the unicorn was a favourite illustration of the doctrine of the Incarnation, caught only by a virgin of pure life — unicorn emblems that Incarnation doctrine.

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

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• Unicorn is associated with Chastity.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the unicorn appears especially as the emblem of chastity, with the virgin seated upon it — the unicorn marks that chastity reading.

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

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• Unicorn is associated with Strength.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, among Persian and Egyptian nations the unicorn was the symbol of purity and strength, and early Christians retained those significations — the unicorn marks that strength reading.

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

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• Unicorn is associated with Purity.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, among Persian and Egyptian nations the unicorn was the symbol of purity and strength, retained in early Christian animal symbolism — the unicorn marks that purity reading.

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

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• Unicorn is historically related to Lion.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the unicorn was represented on the walls of Persepolis in battle with the lion — unicorn sits against that lion.

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

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• Unicorn is historically related to Cross.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the unicorn is represented kneeling before the cross in much the same position as the lamb — the unicorn kneels to that cross.

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

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• Horn is historically related to Unicorn.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the unicorn’s horn was held an antidote to poison and cups made of it were supposed to strip deadly drink of harm — the horn belongs to that unicorn figure.

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

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European folklore

• Unicorn rampant is historically related to Unicorn.

  Boutell’s English Heraldry treats the unicorn rampant among English and Scottish armorial beasts. A named unicorn-rampant historically related to the unicorn, not lion-rampant and not unicorn-mark as a bare emblem dump.

  from Charles Boutell · English Heraldry, 1867

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