In Persia, Arabia, India and North Africa, the fierce Kakadan is not like a docile unicorn, but an animal that people and animals are afraid of. However, in order to get its horn, people occasionally try to catch karkadann. Its horns can be used to make flutes or detoxification drugs.
There was a pharmacist named Cassius in Cornidos, who made medicines for Darius II. Since then, he has also played for Persia. He left Knidos in 4 16 BC and returned to Knidos in 398 BC. He learned the way of keeping in good health and tried to preserve a lot of knowledge about life and history. One of his achievements, the Inca, was once preserved as a broken abstract fragment, and later copies were circulated for five centuries.
In chapter 25 of Induction, ketosis describes unicorns: in Indian forests, unicorns are as big as bigger horses, or bigger. Their bodies are white, their heads are crimson and their glasses are dark blue. Their horns protrude from the middle of their foreheads, about a foot and a half long.
The powder made from unicorn's horn mill can be used as an antidote to deadly anesthetics. At the root of the horn, the forehead on the eyebrow is pure white. The upper corner is very sharp, with bright red and black in the middle. People who drink in a container made of unicorn horns say it can cure epilepsy. In fact, people who drink unicorn horn cups avoid poisoning because they also drink wine, water or other liquids to dilute the poison and avoid death.
Whether domestic or wild unicorns, in fact, all hard hoofed animals have no ankles, and their livers do not secrete bile. Unicorns have ankles and bile. Like an ordinary bull, but all red.
This animal is so agile and powerful that no animal, even a horse, can catch up with it. In India, during the Rishi period, only one farmer's child got some first-hand information about unicorns for the first time. Farm boy Vibhandaka helps his family to take care of the fields. One day, at a religious ceremony, he met a visiting saint. This man gave him a chance to change his life. A year later, when the sage came to this village again, Vibhandaka's life changed. He told his parents his decision, and then left home forever with the sage. For many years, his life remained unchanged. As a follower of the sage, he went deep into the Dojo forest until the sage died. Vibhandaka buried him and left the Dojo. He wandered for a long distance and finally found an abandoned cave. Although this cave is abandoned, some wild animals often come to this cave to shelter from the rain. He became friends with a unicorn, and the unicorn stayed with him all the time.
Alexander's father Philip once caught an animal with a horn. But no one can ride it, no matter Philip or other nobles, unicorns always leave them quickly. Alexander raised it and named it Bucephalus. He tamed it and rode it to fight to prove his bravery. How to capture such a dangerous beast alive is an interesting question. Aelian (a Roman writer in the third century A.D.) thought that only the youngest Catalans (they didn't know the meaning of the word) could capture it, because it was difficult for the strongest adults to make it yield. The legend of Kakadan influenced the writer's description of unicorns.
So isidore of Seville wrote in 600 AD that unicorns are cruel beasts and often fight with elephants. He also noticed that using young girls can lure unicorns to be fooled and captured. Unicorns sleep with their heads on girls' skirts, so they are easily caught by hunters.
A horned beast haunts the snow-capped mountains in the Himalayas, thus forming some ancient traditions. So many people think that Tibet is the source of the legend of unicorns, although it was once called the Moon Mountain, the highest point in Abyssinia and the land of glory in history. This tradition has continued. Therefore, it is not surprising that four bronze unicorn sculptures still exist in the palace of the Red Abbey King.
The unicorn's residence
Unicorns have been living a very comfortable life for so many years, because they feed on all kinds of leaves and grasses that grow in European forests. In spring and summer, when flowers and plants are in full bloom, they will carefully avoid eating beautiful flowers in full bloom, perhaps because they don't want to destroy beautiful things, perhaps because flowers will soon grow berries to entertain themselves. They especially like to eat all kinds of berries, such as wild strawberries, begonia fruits and wild cherries. Sometimes they also use their horns to push branches full of fruit, or use the strength of their hind legs to reach the desired fruit.
Near the end of autumn, when the fruits on the trees are eaten up, unicorns usually store a lot of fat to endure the cold weather in winter and the lack of food for several months. Unlike deer, at least deer will live in groups for the winter after estrus in late autumn, while unicorns will continue their lonely journey. In winter, they will hide in the depths of the forest, where the snow will not accumulate very thick, so they can push away the snow with their hooves or horns and eat the grass below. In the meantime, they must always be on guard against predators such as wolves, because hyenas can quickly catch prey within 50 feet. But generally speaking, unless unicorns are besieged, they can also push hyenas into the wall with sharp horns and hooves.
If magic can't save a unicorn, what's the use of it? -Peter S. Berger, The Last Unicorn.
Why can legends about animals be circulated for thousands of years? The sharp language of the beagle may be the best explanation. Almost every culture is inlaid with bizarre animal legends, mythical monsters, beautiful beasts and real flesh-and-blood stories.
The earliest unicorns appeared in the Hebrew Old Testament. This kind of horse with horns on its forehead is called "re'em", which was originally translated as "monokeros" and later evolved into "unicorn" in English.
The legendary unicorn is a beautiful creature, a white pony, flexible and agile, with a magical horn on its forehead. It is sometimes depicted as a woman. In the real world, what we can find is that narwhals may be close relatives of this mythical animal, but narwhals live in the distant deep sea, not mountains and grasslands. Rhinoceros living on land also has a sharp horn on its forehead, but it's a pity that it looks very different.
In 398 BC, the ancient Greek historian Ctesias wrote in his book: "Unicorns live in India and the South Asian subcontinent. They are wild donkeys, and their bodies are almost as big as horses, or even bigger. Their bodies are white, their heads are crimson, they have dark blue eyes, and there is a horn in the middle of their foreheads, which is about half a meter long. " This mysterious horn has been circulating for centuries. The bottom is white, the middle is black and the top is bright red. The horns of unicorns have strange magic. The powder falling from the corner can cure all kinds of poisons, resist diseases after taking it, prevent all kinds of poisons from invading and come back to life. Magic makes people crazy about this strange horn. Every nobleman is like a wine glass made of unicorn horns, and every hunter dreams that one day the unicorn will fall into his trap.
In medieval myths and legends, unicorns roam freely in Shan Ye, and they are very friendly to human beings. In the story, the pure and kind unicorn is often tempted by the charming body fragrance of the girl and falls into a terrible trap. The "pure" girl savagely cut off its magic horn, and the unicorn that lost its magic could only be slaughtered mercilessly by hunters.