Kite · Atlas · Falsafa

spoken of as

1 expression

The kite2 mentions

Birds (Greek)

And when he was king, he was the one who first taught them to fall on their knees before the kites.

in the texts

BirdsClassical · Greek

A bird recurring across three separate scenes in this window: as a seasonal omen for shepherds, as a hearth-presiding deity in the sacrificial litany, and as an object of comic complaint about avian greed.

Don't you see that a single kite could easily carry off the lot at once?

birds ¶

When the kite reappears, he tells of the return of spring and of the period when the fleece of the sheep must be clipped.

birds ¶

Pray to the Hestia of the birds, to the kite, who presides over the hearth, and to all the god and goddess-birds who dwell in Olympus.

birds ¶

PeaceClassical · Greek

Bird of prey invoked by Hierocles as an ominous warning figure in his final oracle line.

HIEROCLES Take care, lest somehow a kite, deceiving your wits by guile, snatch—

peace ¶