Unicorn called Licorna or unicorn is a mythical beast strong,
wild and fierce. The unicorn is represented by a white horse with a horn in the
middle of the forehead. Some legends describe as having magical unicorn horn: give
life, removes evil or cure diseases.
Pliny, the Roman biologist described him as having the body
of a horse, the head of a deer, feet of an elephant, the tail of a pig as
having a black horn in the center of the forehead.
Origin:
The unicorn is a fantastic monster, mythology present both
in the east and west.
Zoologists today showed that the unicorn never existed
although there are many animals that have bony protrusions on his head that
looked more or less with a horn that could feed the legend of the unicorn. Rhinos
and giraffes have such a horn.
Some believe that narwhals would underlie the unicorn legend.
Narvalul whale is a mammal similar to the dolphin that has a very long horn
that starts from the middle of the forehead.
Another animal that could turn this legend could be the Oryx,
which has its desert antelope horn that starts from the center of the forehead.
The unicorn is used in modern fantasy literature even
mentions having Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The criminal
uses the unicorn to draw out life blood or silver band.
Power
It is said that only a virgin could catch beautiful unicorn
empty. This, being attracted by its purity, resting his head in her lap. While
sleeping, a hunter could catch him. If you still face was pure killing a
unicorn.
Unicorn or unicorn represented over the centuries, a topic
around which many legends arose. The writings of Aristotle, Genghis Khan, Saint Thomas and Saint
Gregory reflect that they consider as a creature very real unicorn. Webster's
dictionary defines explanatory unicorn as a mythical animal generally
described as having a horse's head and body, hind legs of a deer, the tail of a
lion with a horn in the middle of his forehead.
The unicorn is a fantastic animal, found in oriental
mythology. Descriptions appear in many tales about him, tarot, art history, occupying
an important place in the folklore of all peoples. It meets under the following
names: Ekasringa, Kirtnasari, Cartazon, Kirin ,
and Karn Wahid, Abou Quarn, Kartkdann, etc. It seems that a large number of
words that have the same root KRN call unicorn. This series of consonants is
the highest expression of light is related to the name Kronos - Father Time and
the Golden Age and Apollon Karneiros splendid sunshine. Kronos or Saturn
corresponds to the highest ranks planetarium of the seventh heaven of Indian
tradition.
In Asia , it is called snow
animal and takes the form of angora goat with one horn. The Chinese
believe that the animal had the body of a deer, a horse hooves and tail of an
ox, calling it kilin. For them, the unicorn represent wisdom. Over
time, however, the appearance of the unicorn was a kind of warning to people. A
group of warriors of Genghis Khan had reported seeing a unicorn, which meant a
signal to stop the war. After this notification, Mongolia ceased battle plans. In
Chinese mythology, the unicorn was an animal coming among people only with
important missions. His voice was very beautiful and harmonious tinkling of
bells resemble. His kindness was so great that raises his legs high up to avoid
stepping on any living thing. The unicorn was very strong, a leader among
animals. However, he lived alone and was thought to be impossible to catch. Its
appearance was interpreted as a good sign and that has not been seen for
centuries means that we live in an era unclean. The unicorn will appear again
at the right time, when goodness will rule again. People believe that one of
the first unicorns appeared 5,000 years ago, and he has disclosed secrets
Emperor Fu His written language. Then, in 2697 BC, another unicorn appeared in
the garden first ancestor of the Chinese people, the Yellow Emperor Huang Di or
Therefore, this king was seen as a sign that the kingdom will endure and that
will be peaceful. Two unicorns lived during the reign of Emperor Yao, the
fourth of the five kings who ruled the country with 4,000 years ago.
Church historians have found paintings that depict God
giving the names of animals, and the head of all the pairs of animals is a
unicorn. In Bibles illustrated this mysterious animal occurs between Adam and
Eve, and the horn is turned to the tree of Good and Evil. They say unicorn owes
its miraculous power that makes a trip once a year to water garden paradise
where plants use magical, wholesome. Saint Ambrose said that the origin
of a unicorn is a mystery like the birth of Jesus. through the overflow
it was he who save Noah, tying it and pulling it with huge horn, saving
humanity, animals and plants from total destruction.
The unicorn is met in the Greek historical sources. The
first description of the unicorn appears in Greek physician Ctesias of Cnidas, who
went to visit the court of King Darius II of Persia . In return, he wrote
historical works Persia
and indicators, which speaks unicorn, mistaking him wild donkey. Writes Ctesias
about unicorns: wild ass as big as domestic animals, or even upper. Their
body is white, head dark red and dark blue eyes. They have a horn in the middle
of the forehead, about a cubit long 45 cm; Based horn is immaculately white sharp and scarlet top and middle portion is black. Those who drink from these
horns, made into glasses, they will not get sick, they say, no seizures, no
disease to them down the legs. This animal is very quick and powerful, so no
animals, no horse or another, do not reach. There is only one way to catch him,
not hunting, but this way when they drive foals to pasture, and is surrounded
by horsemen, he refused to flee, and thus protecting sired. He struggles with
horn tip: hit, bite and give a terrible force, both in humans and horses but
falls under the blows of arrows and spears, that can not be capture live. At the museum there is a jar Pence in Angers , in the fourth century IDC, ornamented
with a unicorn and a box which is painted a bull with a single horn. Such animals
appear on some Greek coins. It is said that King Pericles received but a
unicorn raised by a pastor in the north. Being so rare in those lands, the
animal became the most valuable aid when the king went hunting or war. Asian
lands, residents claim that creatures with one horn are quite common. Father
Huc says that unicorn really existed in Tibet .
Nobody knows for sure whether or not there unicorn, but
povesiri about it existed all over the world. Some stories speak about a
unicorn as being miraculous, invisible and able to hide from the eyes of men, miraculously
disappearing in the dark forest. In medieval times, the unicorn is the
representation of power and purity. The single horn, unicorn arrow represents
justice, solar ray, God's sword.
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