animal
Vulture
Vulture as an animal people have named and used. Purification, Patience, Death — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Vulture is used in Medicine.
Pliny’s Natural History treats the vulture among birds whose parts enter Roman pharmacological speech. A named vulture in that encyclopedia, not an Egyptian Nekhbet dump without that deity id and not a modern scavenger slogan alone.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
used in · sourced · documented
Nahua tradition
Vulture appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records cozcacuauhtli and kin in Book 11 bird chapters — named vulture/buzzard speech. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific
Egyptian religion
Vulture appears in Egyptian religion.
Herodotus’s Egyptian logos notes vultures among sacred and Nile fauna speech. A named vulture in that traveler’s speech, not Pliny/Florentine vulture alone and not a cartoon scavenger dump.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
appears in · sourced · documented
sources
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.