sacred animal?

[Michal Cigan]

Hi guys,
 
some contribution to discussion:
 
Be very careful, when you try to connect any kind of symbol with any historical group,
especially when you do not really know, how this group was organised and how its identity was constructed (What it ment to some member of this group to be the part of this group?). Ancient communities were not organised in a way of modern nations, with their flags, anthems and massmedia identity. There is nothing like "gothic folkgeist", which was manifested through the set of symbols and features.
 
And what do you mean by "sacred" animal? There is nothing like a constant sacred thing in any culture generally. It depends on context, on particular situation, on particular moment of group´s history which thing is "sacred" and in which way it is "sacred"...

Michal

--- On Wed, 12/8/10, Mike <mremic01 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Mike <mremic01 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [gothic-l] Re: sacred animal?
To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 12:32 PM


  



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:
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> Eagle broaches might be important here...
> 
> On 19 October 2010 15:55, ingemarn2000 <ingemar at ...> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > 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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