Das siebende Buch / Von den Länderen Asie. Von dem Edlen Arabia.

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Das siebende Buch / Von den Länderen Asie. Von dem Edlen Arabia.

Representatin of an unicorn. The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. The unicorn was depicted in ancient seals of the Indus Valley Civilization and was mentioned by the ancient Greeks in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, and Aelian.The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em, which some translations have erroneously rendered with the word unicorn. On reverse: a Phoenix, it is a long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated or born again. Associated with the Sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. According to some sources, the phoenix dies in a show of flames and combustion, although there are other sources that claim that the legendary bird dies and simply decomposes before being born again.

ca. 1550

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Münster