Vultures
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
vultures · flesh-eating creatures
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
Vultures cited as being drawn by the scent of carcasses.
By carcasses.
Are led by odour of honey, vultures too
Adversus Valentinianos
Animal cited as bearing only females, analogy for Sophia's birth of Enthymesis
and they say that vultures bear only females.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Vultures invoked as an omen and as scavengers destined to feed on Rāvaṇa's corpse.
In battle it was ever a feast for flocks of herons, vultures, jackals, and rākṣasas;
A great flock of vultures, hovering in the sky, flew in whatever direction his chariot moved.
Followed by vultures and spewing fire from their mouths, jackals shrieked ominously, looking toward his face with fury.