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Physiologus,
Syriac
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Description:
“There is an animal called dajja, extremely
gentle, which the hunters are unable to capture because of its great
strength. It has in the middle of its
brow a single horn. But observe the
ruse by which the huntsmen take it.
They lead forth a young virgin, pure and chaste, to whom, when the
animal sees her, he approaches, throwing himself upon her. Then the girl offers him her breasts, and
the animal begins to suck the breasts of the maiden and to conduct himself
familiarly with her. Then the girl,
while sitting quietly, reaches forth her hand and grasps the horn on the
animal’s brow, and at this point the huntsmen come up and take the beast and
go away with him to the king. – Likewise the Lord Christ has raised up for us
a horn of salvation in the midst of Jerusalem, in the house of God, by the
intercession of the Mother of God, a virgin pure, chaste, full of mercy,
immaculate, inviolate.”
~Translated,
into Latin, by J.P.N. Land in his Anecdota Syriaca, Lugd. Batav.,
1870, vol. Iv. P. 146*
Resource List:
The Lore of the Unicorn.
Odell Shepard.
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