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What bird is revered in almost all world religions?

The pelican is revered in almost all world religions. Among Muslims, it is considered a sacred bird - according to legend, the pelican carried stones in its throat bag for the construction of shrines in Mecca. In European heraldry, the pelican "feeding its children" is a symbol of selfless parental love: it was believed that it tears its own chest with its beak and feeds hungry chicks with blood. For this, early Christian writers compared him to Jesus Christ, who donated his blood for the salvation of mankind.

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The Egyptians revered over a hundred representatives of the fauna. One of the most revered was the scarab, which deftly rolled balls of dung. Why such mercy to the dung beetle? According to the priests, the rolling of balls by scarabs symbolized the movement of the sun across the sky.

The god of royal power and war Horus was depicted in the form of a falcon, the god of the kingdom of the dead Anubis had the appearance of a jackal, and the ibis personified the god of wisdom Thoth.

Worship of animals sometimes reached the point of absurdity. Luxurious temples were built in honor of cats, where they had their own priests and admirers. Dead cats were buried in special cemeteries. They were embalmed, wrapped in expensive linen. If the cat died, then all family members shaved off their eyebrows as a sign of deep mourning. A person who deliberately or even accidentally killed a sacred animal faced the death penalty. Cats, snakes, jackals, ibises, peacocks, sheep, crocodiles, oxen, donkeys - everyone found a place in the Egyptian pantheon!

So how did it happen that the horse, which was so honored by the Slavs and Scythians, the ancient Indians and Greeks, was left without attention in Egypt? Everything is explained simply. Horses came to Egypt only in the middle of the second millennium BC - they were brought with them by the Hyksos conquerors. The Egyptians did not want to deify horses, because by that time the pantheon of gods had already developed.

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