Hawk
animal · 5 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
hawk · the hawk · hawks · long-winged bird · swiftly flying hawk
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Rigveda
A bird of prey named as a potential danger to the omen-bird.
Let not the hawk slay you, nor the eagle;
the sun has eclipsed and the hawk has swooped down.
Stromata
Bird of prey appearing both in Mosaic dietary prohibition (symbolizing injustice) and in Egyptian sacred imagery (symbolizing God or the sun).
" For the eagle signifies plunder, the hawk injustice, and the raven greed.
Indeed, in Diospolis of Egypt, upon what is called the sacred portal, there is figured a child, a symbol of coming into being, and an old man, of decay, and a hawk, of God, and a fish, of hatred, and again, by another signification, a crocodile, of shamelessness.
"You shall not eat the swine, nor the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the raven.
Works and Days
A bird of prey who, in the fable told to the princes, seizes a nightingale in his talons and lectures her on the futility of resisting one who is stronger.
Thus said the hawk to the nightingale with speckled neck, while he carried her high up among the clouds, gripped fast in his talons, and she, pierced by his crooked talons, cried pitifully.
” So said the swiftly flying hawk, the long-winged bird.
Odyssey
A bird of prey, called Apollo's messenger, that appears carrying a dove as the second omen.
As he was speaking a bird flew by upon his right hand - a hawk, Apollo's messenger.
De Rerum Natura
Predatory birds appearing as the object of other birds' dream-terror.
Of hawks in chase, aswooping on for fight.