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    The Atlas·Animals

    Eagle

    animal · 11 works · 19 mentions · 25 anchored passages

    eagle · the eagle · a long-winged eagle · an eagle · eagles · king of birds · red eagle · suparṇas · the fair-winged bird

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The eagle8 mentions

    Rigveda (Sanskrit) · Birds (Greek) · Stromata (Greek) · Theogony (Greek) · Iliad (Greek) · Odyssey (Greek)

    the eagle shook the other loose from the rock.
    mandala 1

    in the texts

    RigvedaAncient · Sanskrit

    A bird of prey named alongside the hawk as a danger to the omen-bird.

    Let not the hawk slay you, nor the eagle;
    mandala 2
    That soma which the eagle bore to you with its foot through the realms of air, the untouched — you are the lord of it;
    mandala 8
    Where, O heroes, who adorns your bright chariot as it comes for your blessing?
    mandala 10

    Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)Ancient · Sanskrit

    The eagle, described as moving through the sky in the closing cosmological verse.

    the eagle runs through the sky.
    kanda 18
    You are indeed born of the ocean, an eagle, keeper of cosmic order.
    kanda 20
    I have stretched you down with the nitatni, I have encompassed you with what is more powerful, with what is faster than an eagle, with what surpasses the suparṇas.
    kanda 20

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Bird of prey forbidden by Mosaic law, allegorized as plunder.

    "You shall not eat the swine, nor the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the raven.
    book 5
    " For the eagle signifies plunder, the hawk injustice, and the raven greed.
    book 5
    "You shall not eat the pig, nor the eagle, nor the sharp-winged, nor the raven, nor any fish that has not a scale in itself.
    book 2

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    A bird of prey that appears carrying a goose, interpreted as an omen for Telemakhos.

    As he was thus speaking a bird flew on his right hand - an eagle with a great white goose in its talons which it had carried off from the farm yard - and all the men and women were running after it and shouting.
    chapter 15
    I dreamed that a great eagle came swooping down from a mountain, and dug his curved beak into the neck of each of them till he had killed them all.
    chapter 19

    BirdsClassical · Greek

    The bird associated with Zeus's royal symbolism and separately invoked in Aesop's cautionary fable about alliance.

    It is told there that the fox fared very badly, because he had made an alliance with the eagle.
    birds
    But the strongest proof of all is that Zeus, who now reigns, is represented as standing with an eagle on his head as a symbol of his royalty;
    birds

    TheogonyClassical · Greek

    A long-winged eagle set by Zeus to eat Prometheus's regenerating liver each day, slain by Heracles.

    And ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver;
    theogony

    IliadClassical · Greek

    Eagle sent by Zeus as an omen in answer to Agamemnon's prayer, carrying a fawn in its talons.

    forthwith he sent them an eagle, most unfailingly portentous of all birds, with a young fawn in its talons;
    chapter 8

    IsthmeanClassical · Greek

    A great eagle sent by Zeus as an omen in answer to Heracles's prayer, inspiring the name 'Aias' for Telamon's prophesied son.

    ” When he had spoken, the god sent to him the king of birds, a great eagle.
    chapter 6

    NemeanClassical · Greek

    Bird of prey used in similes for swift, decisive excellence, contrasted with lesser birds.

    I have a light spring in my knees, and eagles swoop over the sea.
    chapter 5
    he swoops down from afar, and suddenly seizes with his talons his blood-stained quarry;
    chapter 3

    PythianClassical · Greek

    An eagle invoked in simile to characterize the courage of the young Arcesilas among his peers.

    in courage he is a long-winged eagle among birds;
    chapter 5

    SāmavedaAncient · Sanskrit

    An eagle invoked as a simile for the soma-drop's keen sight.

    The drop that moves toward the ocean, looking with the eye of the eagle beyond the order of things — the ray, delighting in its bright flame, has set the beloved things in motion in the third region.
    prapathaka 12