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Her Sacred Symbols

An Index of Them Ordered in Various Ways

Alphabetical Index
A B CDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ

CATEGORIES

ANIMALS BIRDS COLOURS CONSTELLATIONS
FOOD and DRINK FISH GRAINS METALS
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NUMBERS PLANTS REPTILES
TREES WEEKDAYS something else something else

ANIMALS, natural and supernatural, and REPTILES

APE -- ASS -- BOAR -- BULL -- BUFFALO -- CAT -- COW -- CROCODILE -- DOG -- DRAGON -- FROG -- GREYHOUND -- HARE -- HEIFER -- HUNTING DOG -- IBEX -- JAGUAR -- LAMB -- LIONESS, LION --MARE -- OTTER -- PANTHER -- RAM -- SHEEP -- SNAKE

BIRDS

feather -- cock -- crane -- crow -- cuckoo -- dove -- diver-bird -- eagle -- gold-crested wren -- goose -- hawk -- heron -- kingfisher -- kite -- loon -- ostrich -- owl -- parrot -- pea-cock -- raven -- sea-mew -- sparrow -- starling -- swan

COLOURS

alizarin -- black -- black and white -- red -- henna and rouge -- purple

GALAXYS, CONSTELLATIONS, STARS and PLANETS

milky-way -- pleiades -- star -- sun -- Venus

FOOD and DRINK

bread -- cakes -- milk -- food -- honey -- soma

FISH, SHELL-FISH, and MARINE ANIMALS

cuttle-fish -- dolphin -- fish -- murex -- salmon -- scallop -- sea-anemone

GRAINS

for (sweet) corn see Maize
barley -- grain -- maize -- rice

INSECTS

bee -- beetle -- butterfly -- gadfly -- spider

METALS

copper -- gold

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

see also cane
biwa -- sistrum

NUMBERS

three, see also tripod
four -- five -- seven -- eight -- nine -- seventy-seven

PLANTS, of LAND and WATER

See also GRAINS, FLOWERS and TREES
alyssum -- bluebell -- corn-flower -- cowslip -- daisy -- delphinium -- madwort -- marigold -- heather -- hyacinth -- iris -- ivy -- lily -- mandrake -- mandragora -- milk-weed -- mistletoe -- moon-fern -- poppy

TREES and SHRUBS

Re: Hera's file "Icon: a log, plank or pillar". Not sure how this should be dealt with. Made me think of Asherah file, "Icon: ...an image carved from a tree-trunk". Made me think of the word bust, re it's having originally, meant the whole torso, and "...the origin of the word is unknown, but there is a Proven‡al bust, meaning the trunk of a tree." Shipley DWO 58.
Made me think of images of bog recovered celtic images -- which look like relief carved trees. Made me think of May poles.

TREE PARTS

branch -- grove -- log

TREE SPECiES

acacia -- alder -- apple -- ash -- beech -- birch -- cane -- cedar -- cypress -- dodonian-oak -- hawthorn --hazel -- holly-oak -- japonica -- laurel -- lime-tree -- mountain ash -- myrtle -- oak -- olive -- pear-tree -- poplar --pomegranate -- quince --rose --rowan -- service-tree --silver-fir --sorb-apple -- spruce -- sycamore
Worked on August 1995; February 1992