the locust
animal · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
الجراد · Umm Ḥubayn · al-jarādah · jarād · locusts · ام حبين
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The locust, eponym of the Banū Jarād, used both to introduce the food taboo totemism would impose and to illustrate the mismatch of name and veneration.
It is not enough that a tribe be named after the bull, say, and hold the locust sacred, or be named after the lion and hold the mare sacred.
and so for the cock, the raven, the mare, the camel, the wolf, the serpent, the locust and the rest of their animals, besides the names of weapons — to say nothing of the synonyms among the names of the sun, the rain, the sea, the well, milk, honey, wine and fire;
And with them Umm Ḥubayn is the locust, Umm ʻAwf the dove, Umm Mahdī the hen, Umm Ḥafṣ the hoopoe, Abū al-Mayt the dung-beetle, Abū al-Ṣarāt the louse, Umm ʻUqbah the serpent and Umm Yaqẓān the scorpion — and so on.
De Rerum Natura
Insects cited as an example of shedding an outer skin (exuviae).
As when the locusts in the summertime
Put off their glossy tunics, or when calves