Falsafa

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

    The Atlas·Animals

    the woodpecker

    animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages

    a woodpecker

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Woodpecker1 mention

    Romulus (Greek)

    in the texts

    Quaestiones RomanaeImperial · Greek

    The bird revered and spared by the Latins, treated as sacred through its association with the oracular Picus, the infant Romulus and Remus, and the war-god Mars, the subject of Question 21's inquiry into its taboo status.

    Why do the Latins worship a woodpecker, and all of them abstain strictly front this bird?
    quaestiones romanae

    RomulusImperial · Greek

    A bird sacred to Mars that helps feed and watch over the infant twins.