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.
Are led by odour of honey, vultures too
By carcasses.
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.
"Let vultures alight on your chest, O Rāvaṇa, as you lie cast on the ground, and drink thirstily the blood oozing from the wounds of arrow-shafts.
A great flock of vultures, hovering in the sky, flew in whatever direction his chariot moved.
In battle it was ever a feast for flocks of herons, vultures, jackals, and rākṣasas;