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THE CUCKOO, THE HERON, THE HEATHCOCK, THE PARTRIDGE, THE NIGHTINGALE, THE SWALLOW, THE SPARROW, AND

Date of account: English edition published 1872
Source: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2)
Reference: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) · selected passage 125
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-25

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akrâvatâras and the fisher.--The stone and the fish.--Adrikâ, Girikâ, the mother of fishes.--The matsyâs as a nation.--Çaradvat.--Pradyumnas.--Guhas.--The fishes laugh.--The fish guards the white haoma.--The water of the fish drunk by the cook.--The devil steals the fishes.--The dwarf Andvarri and the pike as the guardian of gold and of a ring.--The goldfish and the pike.--The dwarf Vishnus as a little goldfish.--The legend of the Deluge.--Vishnus as a horned fish draws the ship of Manus; the sea-urchin or hedgehog of the Ganges, the little destroyer.--The dolphin with the horned bull draws the chariot or vessel of the Açvinâu.--The little turbulent perch.--The thorns of the sea-urchin compared to a hundred oars.--The whale as a bridge or island; the whale devours a fleet.--The pike.--The bream.--The phallical fishes; the phallos and the simpleton.--Why fishes are eaten in Lent, that is, spring; and on Friday, the day of Freya or Venus.--The _poisson d'avril_.--The herring.--The eel.--The bream cleans the workman.--The phallical and demoniacal eel; _anguilla_ and _anguis_.--The eel and the cane; _ikshus_ and _Iskshvâkus_.--Diabolical fishes.--The red mullet.--The bream and the ring.--Cimedia.--The whale vomits out the vessels; the

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