sacred animal?

[Mike]

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the eagle symbolized the Resurrection in the Arian church. I can't find any source to back that up though, so I could easily be wrong. Way back in the archives here I think there's a post by Dirck about eagle brooches being worn mostly by women. 


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Claire Knudsen-Latta <clairemargery at ...> wrote:
>
> Eagle broaches might be important here...
> 
> On 19 October 2010 15:55, ingemarn2000 <ingemar at ...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I never found that stuff in connection with my studies of Gothic
> > pre-Christian religion meaning there is nothing written as far as I know.
> > Still they worshipped old Óðinn and Ingun/Freya and hence beleived in
> > Valhall where Särimner the boar is slaughtered every evening and is reborn
> > every morning. Pigs sacrifice is quite probable and the boar is a holy
> > animal of Freya. Her wagon was drawn by cats but adoration - no. There are a
> > lot of Germanic mythological animals but to what extent they were adored is
> > quite another question. One thing is for sure - they had no dog cult like
> > the Langobards.
> >
> > Best
> > Ingemar
> >
> >
> > --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com <gothic-l%40yahoogroups.com>, Leonardo
> > Frithunanthz H-C <leonardo.f.h.c@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello fellow lovers of the Goths,
> > >
> > > My question goes as follows, did the Goths revere any particular animal
> > and
> > > if so, did this adoration continue in a syncretic form once they had
> > adopted
> > > christendom? The same question goes for any particular colour.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Leonardo
> > >
> > > --
> > > How to pronounce my surname: fri:ðu:nanθ
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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