Explore: Religious Aspects Of Stags (deer)

hybrid animal that looks less unicorn than chimera, with the body of a deer, the head of a lion, green scales and a long forwardly-curved horn. The Japanese

is related to elaphos (deer) and Artemis is the Deer Huntress. Cakes made from flour, honey, and sesame and in the shape of stags were offered to the goddess

to the wild animals, particularly deer, who dwell on or around the mountains. Stags appear in façade on the walls of her temples, as well as in works containing

(British Traditional Wicca), he is generally regarded as a dualistic god of twofold aspects: bright and dark, night and day, summer and winter, the Oak King and

flag features a dragon passant. For stags and other deer-like beasts of chase, the term trippant is used instead of passant. Lion passant Lion passant

stag, now present in Turkey, the Caucasus, and northern Iran; the roe deer, the smallest of the group, found in the same areas; and the fallow deer,

(1971). "The seasonal reproductive changes in the red deer stag (Cervus elaphus)". Journal of Zoology. 163 (1): 105–123. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1971

the forces of nature, saw the world as inhabited by many spirits, and saw the Divine manifesting in aspects of the natural world. The Celts of the ancient

of all the wild animals was the deer, and more precisely the hart, which is an adult male of the red deer. The hart was classified by the number of tines

terrestrial animal in the frontal part (stag, deer, or elephant) and half aquatic animal in the hind part (usually of a fish, a dolphin, or a snake, though