sacred animal?

[Ingemar Nordgren]

If you speak of the Arian Goths the symbol for resurrection was the peacock!

Ingemar

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mremic01 at ...> wrote:
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> 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@> wrote:
> >
> > Eagle broaches might be important here...
> > 
> > On 19 October 2010 15:55, ingemarn2000 <ingemar@> 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
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
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