exuvia elephantis
Elephant scalp headgear
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- May 2021
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even riding an elephant. For in
The elephant scalp as a headdress reminds me of popular depictions of romans wearing a hood of a wolf or of Hercules wearing the Lion's pelt.
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iademed
Diadem: Type of crown
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mahout
Mahout: A person who rides elephants.
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unicorn
I've always thought of Unicorns and Griffons which was mentioned earlier as coming from medieval times.
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Caesar ’s coinage even alludedto the victory of good over evil, with an elephant trampling a serpent with hiscognomenin the exergue(Figure 10).
Good vs evil being depicted as trampling over a serpent reminds me biblical examples of the archangel Michael or the Virgin Mary stepping over the serpent.
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ulius Caesar (100–44bce) derived from the Moorish word for “elephant”,caesai, “because he felled an elephant in battle”, rather than fromcaesiusorcaeruleus(pertaining tothe color of the sky)
I've actually heard that it came from him being born through a C-section and that he was named from that.
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cognomen
Cognomen: An extra name passed down to Romans.
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How many survived is (once more) unclear,
I remember reading once about how by the time Hannibal was crossing the swamps and lost an eye he had only elephant left which he rode on.
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When Pyrrhus of Epirus (319–272bce) set out on his Italian campaign
I know his name and this war is the origin of the term "Pyrrhic victory" which means a victory that's so costly it is not much of a victory.
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From there,we quickly pass from Ptolemy I and his son Ceraunus
I recall learning about how Ptolemy attempted to get Elephants through Meroe.
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pachyderms
Pachyderm: General term for Elephants, Rhinos and Hippos.
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As an aside, it may be opportune to note that theGreekdrak ̄on(δράκων), like the Latindraco, denotes “dragon” as well as “(sea) serpent”, and may beinterchangeable with “snake”, but might also refer to the mythic Typhon, the serpentine giant of chaos.
The Greek origin of Dragon meaning serpent is interesting when you think about Chinese dragons being serpent like too.
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osthumous po
Hippocampus: mythical animal with the top half of a horse and the lower half of a fish.
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n and hipp
Manticore: mythical animal with a lions body and human head.
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