#about unicorns

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Unicorn facts:

Even Aristotle wrote about unicorns in his History of Animals (Historia Animalium).

So much so that even other big philosophers and popular persons took his words at face value: Pliny, the Elder, Julius Caesar, Claudius Aelianus, and many more.

They all brought the unicorn into human history and helped make it famous 🥰

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The unicorn has a mate.

As worthy has proven itself the Lion throughout history and various centuries.

🦄 In the time of the Old Testament’s David, the two were considered rivals. They first meet in the Midrash Tehillim.

The story of their first encounter goes like this:

When David was still tending sheep, he led his flock up a mountain and let them graze there. But the mountain proved as the primordial unicorn Reem. It stood up and reached all the way to the sky. Frightened, David pleaded with God: “If You save me from this unicorn, I will build You a temple 100 cubits long, as large as the unicorn’s horn.” God sent a lion, and sure enough: When the unicorn saw the lion, it knelt down. David was able to climb down. But now David found himself eye to eye with the lion, which terrified him just as much.

Once again he called out to his God: “Deliver me from the lion’s mouth and save me from the unicorns!” Thus arose the famous Psalm 22, the last words of Jesus Christ.

🦄 In the natural history narratives of early Christianity, however, the balance of power within the relationship shifts. Now the unicorn is regarded as the only animal capable of defeating the lion. Its power is also drawn from the symbolism attributed to it.

The unicorn as a symbol of the Savior Jesus Christ. The lion as a symbol of the devil.

On the Freudenstadt baptismal font, a sandstone relief from the mid-12th century, the two are depicted fighting each other. Are the Devil and the Son of God wrestling for the soul of the child being baptized? The interpretation suggests as much. And, of course, the Jesus-unicorn prevails.

🦄 Eventually, the lion and the unicorn became practically best friends. They can be seen, for example, as loving partners on the famous Parisian tapestries “The Virgin and the Unicorn.”

🦄 In the English coat of arms, they jointly submit to the glory of the Empire and provide a grateful subject for Victorian popular songs, which portray the lion and the unicorn as quarrelsome

(translated from a book I have, The Magical Lexicon of Unicorns)

[irandial]

🦄 National Unicorn Day🦄

🦄 A Scottish initiative had affirmed the 9th of April as “National Unicorn Day” via online poll and some other silly stuff.

🦄 This date is only for Scotland and will be celebrated yearly.

🦄 Suggested is, to hail the unicorn through all kinds of praises. Permitted is everything that is colorful and makes fun 🥰

🦄 Another fun fact: there are a lot of unicorn statues in Scotland. And even a whisky distillery that produces Unicorn whisky in Fettercairn.

[irandial]

Happy official Unicorn Day!!

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At least for Great Britain and Scotland? If I remember right it was invented by the Scottish?

Need to look it up, but anyways.

Unicorns!! 🥰

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These mystical symbols of purity and chastity have made fun of your virginity for the last time.

-Fluttersleuth