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Whale

Beings · Nature

Whale as an animal people have named and used. Wisdom, Harmony, Longevity — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Whale is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats whales among great marine animals entering Roman natural-history and related product speech. A named whale in that encyclopedia, not dolphin as the smaller cetacean already walked and not a modern whaling dump alone.

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

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  • Whale is historically related to Wax.

    In Burnell's Hobson-Jobson, Whale is treated with Wax; piece and peer stock share the entry.

    from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)

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  • Whale is historically related to Wool.

    In al's The Jewish Encyclopedia, Whale and Wool are named as companions in the same handbook speech.

    from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906

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  • Book of Job appears in Whale.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems, the image is taken from the Book of Job, where of the leviathan, or whale, sparks of fire leap from his mouth — the whale/leviathan speech appears in that Job passage.

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

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Northwest Coast tradition

  • Whale appears in Northwest Coast tradition.

    Swanton’s Tlingit Myths and Texts seat whales among sea beings of hunt and story on the Northwest Coast. A named whale in that ethnography, not a generic ocean-monster dump and not a modern aquarium flatten.

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

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