Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    ibis

    animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages

    the ibis

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Egyptian sacred bird symbolizing the moon and credited with originating the Egyptian concept of number and measure.

    For the ibis seems above the other creatures to have furnished the Egyptians with the beginning of the conception of number and measure, as the oblique circle did of the circles.
    book 5

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Sacred bird credited with intercepting and killing winged serpents flying from Arabia, described in detail including its two varieties.

    I have now said enough concerning creatures that are sacred.
    chapter 2
    the legs and beak of the bird are like those of the other ibis.
    chapter 2
    Such is the appearance of the ibis which fights with the serpents.
    chapter 2

    PhaedrusClassical · Greek

    The bird sacred to Theuth, mentioned in identifying the Egyptian god at the start of the myth.

    I heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth.
    phaedrus