Eagle

Let not the hawk slay you, nor the eagle;

That soma which the eagle bore to you with its foot through the realms of air, the untouched — you are the lord of it;

The eagle thus grips the prey with its talon—checked, like a lion held at the trap.

the eagle runs through the sky.

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.

You are indeed born of the ocean, an eagle, keeper of cosmic order.

" For the eagle signifies plunder, the hawk injustice, and the raven greed.

"You shall not eat the swine, nor the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the raven.

"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.

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.

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.

Their object of worship may indeed be one of the animals, in the shape of an eagle or a mare or some other of the animal idols.

The eagle (*nasr*), or strong as an eagle — Arnold The noble stone — Athelston The wolf, or strong as a wolf — Bernard The eagle (*ʻuqāb*), or strong as an eagle — Bertram The wild boar — Everard A ewe — Giles An eagle (*ʻuqāb*) — Ingram A lion — Leonder Like a lion, or like an eagle (*ʻuqāb*) — Leonard A lamb — Oven Wolf of the dwellings — Randal The famous wolf — Rodolph The noble serpent — Ethelnid

Wadd was in the form of a man, Suwāʻ in the form of a woman, Yaghūth in the form of a lion, Yaʻūq in the form of a mare and Nasr in the form of an eagle.

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;

It is told there that the fox fared very badly, because he had made an alliance with the eagle.

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;

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

God has let go to waste all the letters I gathered — among the donkeys and the sheep and the cattle You would say, if they keep silent, “the eagle”;

as when we conceive the two wings of an eagle, then conceive the body of a horse, then the legs of a gazelle, then the head of a man, and then bring all of them together and so conceive a mare having an eagle's wings, a gazelle's legs and a man's face;

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.