Pelican

Pelican

• To dream of a pelican, denotes a mingling of disappointments with successes.
• To catch one, you will be able to overcome disappointing influences.
• To kill one, denotes that you will cruelly set aside the rights of others.
• To see them flying, you are threatened with changes, which will impress you with ideas of uncertainty as to good.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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PELICAN

Alchemical symbol for the stage known as mortificatio, the breaking open of the outer shell to reveal the inner man. As the mother pelican was believed to feed her young from blood pecked from her own breast, she is also sometimes used as a general symbol of self- sacrifice.

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Pelecanus occidentalis Pelecanus thagus Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Pelecanus onocrotalus Pelecanus crispus Pelecanus rufescens Pelecanus philippensis Pelecanus conspicillatus A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae. Along with the darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies, frigatebirds, and tropicbirds, they make up the order Pelecaniformes. Like other birds in that group, pelicans hav ...

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HANSA (KALAHAMSA)

White goose or swan, vehicle of the Asvins. Corresponds in the West to the pelican of alchemy.

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Hamsa or Hansa (Sanskrit) "Swan or goose", according to the Orientalists ; a mystical bird in Occultism analogous to the Rosicrucian Pelican.

The sacred mystic name which, when preceded by that of KALA (infinite time), i.e. Kalahansa, is name of Parabrahm ; meaning the " Bird out of space and time". Hence Brahma (male)is called Hansa Vahana "the Vehicle of Hansa" (the Bird). We find the same idea in the Zohar, where Ain Suph (the endless and infinite) is said to descend into the universe, for purposes of manifestation, using Adam Kadmon (Humanity) as a chariot or vehicle.

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The Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is a member of the pelican family. It breeds from southeastern Europe through Asia to China in swamps and shallow lakes. The nest is a crude heap of vegetation. This is a large pelican, at 170 cm length and with a 3 m wingspan. It differs from the White Pelican in that it has curly nape feathers, grey legs and greyish-white (rather than pure white plumage). It has a red lower mandible in the breeding season. Immatures are grey and lack the pink facial patch of immature Whi ...

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The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis †) is the smallest (42"-54") member of the seven species of the pelican family. It lives strictly on coasts from Washington and Cape Cod to the mouth of the Amazon River. Some immature birds may stray to inland freshwater lakes. After nesting, North American birds move further north along the coasts in flocks, returning to warmer waters for winter. This bird is distinguished from the American White Pelican by its brown body and its habit of diving for fish ...

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The Australian Pelican or Goolayyalibee (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is an unmistakable large water bird, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant to New Zealand. Australian Pelicans are medium-sized by pelican standards: 1.6 to 1.8 metres long with a wingspan of 2.3 to 2.5 metres and weighing between 4 and almost 7 kilograms. They are predominantly white, with black and white wings and a pale, pinkish bill which, like that ...

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Because of its large beak and pouch, the pelican has a particular place in the public imagination: as one poet wrote, "A wonderful bird is the pelican; his beak can hold more than his belly can..." (The verse is attributed both to Ogden Nash and to Dixon Lanier Merritt.) In medieval Europe, the pelican was thought to be particularly attentive to her young, to the point of providing her own blood when no other food was available. As a result the pelican became a symbol in bestiaries for self-sacrifice, and was used as a symbol in ...

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The American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is a very large (50"–70") white bird with black wing tips and an enormous orange bill. They have a wing span of approximately 3 m . They are graceful in flight, moving their wings in slow powerful strokes. Unlike the Brown Pelican, the American White Pelican does not dive for its food. Instead it practices cooperative fishing. Each bird eats more than 4 pounds of fish a da ...

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Dalmatia (Croatian Dalmacija, Italian Dalmazia) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, (mostly) in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The inner Dalmatia (Dalmatinska Zagora) is fifty kilometers inland in the north but narrows to just a few kilometers wide in the south. Croatian Dalmatia is currently composed of four counties, the capital cities of which are Zadar, Å ibenik, Split and Dubrovnik. Other larger cities in Dalmatia include Biograd, KaÅ¡tela, Sinj, Solin, OmiÅ¡, Knin, MetkoviÄ ...

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The Bangweulu Wetlands or Bangweulu Swamp lies in northern Zambia, east of Lake Bangweulu, around the Luapula River and its tributaries. Grassy floodplains lie south of the wetlands, acting as an extension of the region in the wet season. The wetlands are known for wildlife including the near-endemic black lechwe, various other antelopes, elephants, buffalo, pelicans, spoonbills, flamingos and many other birds. The wetlands are known for being one of the few breeding grounds of the Shoebill, a large stork-related ...

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A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle ages in illustrated volumes that described various real or imaginary animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast were usually accompanied by a moral lesson. This reflected the belief that the world itself was literally the Word of God, and that every living thing had its own special meaning. For example, the pelican, which was believed to tear open its breast to bring its young to life w ...

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[[ Colin Murray Parkes OBE MD FRCPsych]] Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham and Consultant Psychiatrist to St Joseph's Hospice, Hackney. Formerly Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, The Royal London Hospital Medical College and Member of Research Staff at The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. Author of : Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life; publ. Pelican, London and Routledge, London & New York (3rd Ed 1996) Love and Loss: the roots of Grief and its Complicat ...

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Aldeburgh is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England; it is located on the Alde river at 52° North, 1° East 1. In the 16th century, Aldeburgh was a leading port, and had a flourishing ship-building industry. Sir Francis Drake's ships Greyhound and Pelican (later renamed Golden Hind) were both built in Aldeburgh. When the River Alde silted up and was unable to accommodate larger ships, the area went into decline. Aldeburgh survived principally as a fishing village until the nineteenth century, when it ...

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http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/intrnltr/mbta/mbtandx.html List of birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act † Pelecanus: Latin for pelican; occidentalis: Latin meaning western. ...

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Pelican is located at 57°57'30" North, 136°13'27" West (57.958431, -136.224069)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.8 km² (0.7 mi²). 1.5 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 17.14% water. ...

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Australian Pelicans in the pelican rehabilitation area Fairy Penguins Bottlenose Dolphin "Ping Ping" the Polar Bear at 'Polar Bear Shores' ...

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Taronga Zoo has about 340 species and over 2600 individual animals. Some include: Australian Wetlands Black-Necked Stork Little Pied Cormorant Brolga Australian Pelican Pacific Black Duck Plumed Whistling Duck Water Whistling Duck Australian Walkabout Red Kangaroo Western Grey Kangaroo Swamp Wallaby Agile WallabySee also:

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