the ram
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
ram
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Odyssey
The largest and finest ram of the Cyclops' flock, beneath which Odysseus conceals himself to escape, later sacrificed to Zeus.
"‘My good ram, what is it that makes you the last to leave my cave this morning?
so I sacrificed it on the sea shore, and burned its thigh bones to Zeus, who is the lord of all.
"As spoke he drove the ram outside, but when we were a little way out from the cave and yards, I first got from under the ram's belly, and then freed my comrades;
Rigveda
Ram appears in riddle-hymn imagery of marriage and sacrifice.
The heroes cooked the fat ram;
One whose daughter was born wheelless—who, knowing this, should think lightly of her as blind?