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INTRODUCTION With Unicorns, we experience the nostalgia of the infinite. They dwell in ambiguous twilights and have no favorite area. They travel the world. They appear in every age and climate. They are familiar with the magical realms that are home to all divine lost landscapes ever painted. They symbolise all that is beautiful and sublime. WHAT ARE UNICORNS? From the dawn of civilization till the present, the unicorn has captured people's imagination in a similar way to the dragon. They have been incorporated into myth, saga and allegory from first-hand traveller accounts and folk legends. Many different kinds of Unicorns are documented, the modern horse-shaped kind we most frequently see in western media is far from alone. There is the scaly Chinese cloud-walker Qilin, the donkey-sized and bull tailed Congolese Abada, the bull-like Chilean healer Camahueto and the list goes on! The Unicorn keeps the dignity and mystery of solitude. They symbolise purity, innocence, positivity, romance, fantasy and magic; and they are drawn to qualities such as beauty, serenity and gentle kindness. Sweet scents are likewise favored by the unicorns and has historically been used to attract them. Few other animals are connected with both femininity and masculinity in the same way as unicorns. Unicorn means "one horn," from the Latin uni-, "one", and cornu, "horn". The horn represents the masculine aspects and is called an Alicorn. It is said that if it touches the water where the unicorn is drinking from it becomes pure and sweet. Unicorn horns were once considered to be one of the most valuable things on earth and they've been used as talismans, amulets, weapons and medicine and more. Cups made with unicorn horn were believed to reveal if a drink had been poisoned. Unicorns are also associated with the moon and the correlation between Unicorns and femininity can be seen in this connection. They also represent many traditionally feminine traits such as gentleness, gracefulness, vulnerability and intuition. It was long thought that only a virgin maiden could tame a wild Unicorn with the help of her unique calming energy. This legend is the one that made the Unicorn a symbol of romantic love, as 13th century french authors made the analogy between lovers finding eachother and the unicorn finding their maiden. Some think that the Unicorn was hunted to extinction for it's horn, others claim the remainders used their powers to permanently migrate to another realm of conciousness and yet others believe there are still individuals here on Earth who are just as legendarily rare to spot as ever. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNICORN Some claim the first known depiction of a Unicorn was found in the Lascaux Caves of modern-day France dating back to around 15,000 BCE. Problem is, the creatures clearly had two horns! The most likely reason for this misnomer is that it is the only painting in the Caves that illustrates an unidentifiable animal as opposed to the other naturalistic depictions of known fauna. The Greek physician and historia Ctesias was the first person to ever write about Unicorns. It says in his book Indica, written around 400 BCE: "There are in India certain wild asses which are as large as horses and even larger. Their bodies are white, their heads are dark red, and their eyes dark blue. They have a horn in the middle of the forehead that is a cubit in length; the base of this horn is pure white … the upper part is sharp and of a vivid crimson, and the middle portion is black. … Other asses, tame or wild … do not have an ankle-bone… but these do have an ankle-bone … the most beautiful that I have ever seen…. This animal is exceedingly swift and powerful, so that no creature, neither the horse nor any other, can overtake it…." This early account painted the horse-like body, the white color, and the single one foot and a half long horn, an image that would later be transformed into the medieval Unicorn. Unicorns have been used as an allegory for the life of christ and are mentioned nine times (as a possible translation of the creature re’em) in the 17th century King James version of the Old Testament, a book originally written in the 300 BCE. The revised standard version, published in 1952, changes the translation to ox instead as it is now believed that re’em is in fact the Hebrew word for the extinct aurochs. In the 13th century, Marco Polo spotted what he thought was a Unicorn: "Their hair is like that of a buffalo, and their feet like those of an elephant. In the middle of the forehead they have a very large black horn…. Their head is like that of a wild boar, and is always carried bent to the ground. They delight in living in mire and in mud. It is a hideous beast to look at, and in no way like what we think and say in our countries, namely a beast that lets itself be taken in the lap of a virgin. Indeed, I assure you that it is quite the opposite of what we say it is." What he described is in fact an indian rhinoceros. In Scotland the unicorn is a sign of innocence, purity, healing, joy, and life. In the 15th century, it was choosen as Scotland's national animal. Before the joining of England and Scotland under one rule in 1707 the Coat of Arms for Scotland had two Unicorns, once the two came under one rule a new Coat of Arms was created featuring a Unicorn on the right and a lion on the left. Ambroise Pare, French royal physician, decided the Unicorn horn poison protocol was foolish and pointless in the 1570s. Pare discussed the end of the unicorn horn at court banquets with King Charles 9ths senior physician, Jean Chapelain. A century later the Royal Society of England examined a Unicorn horn cup ("unicorn horn" here most likely being pieces of narwhal tusks) and discovered it to be utterly ineffective at neutralizing poison. This did not stop Christian the 5th of Denmark from commissioning a throne made entirely out of unicorn horn in 1671 where he sat and ate without fear of being poisoned. There were pharmacies in London selling powdered unicorn horn for medicinal purposes as late as 1741. To this day, The Unicorn remains one of our most beloved mystical creatures. (Since 2015, April 9th is the National Unicorn Day in the USA!) Sources: The Lore of the Unicorn by Odell Shephard, The Unicorn Tapestries by Margaret B. Freeman
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