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The Tiger is the national animal.The tiger has long been a subject of imaginative literature.Floating ribs of a tiger are considered a good luck talisman. Humble Oil, a division of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Jersey Standard), used a caricatured tiger and the slogan "Put a Tiger in your Tank" to promote their gasoline products.
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meaning is loyaltyLions appear as a theme in cultures across Europe, Asia and Africa.The lion was adopted by the British people as their mascot together with the bulldog. The dog animal symbol also maintains a pure root meaning throughout time and culture. That meaning is loyalty, of course. Man (and woman's) best friend, the dog symbolizes the strong bond of companionship felt between human and animal. This is a colorable and printable picture.
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insects in particular, are at the very bottom of the pyramid of power.In societies whose principles were formed by the mythology of the second chapter of Genesis, mankind is considered the crown of creation, the species with the right to dominate all the others. Even in other traditions, some classes of sentient beings can be considered of greater value than others. in the Biblical tradition, animals were sacrificed to provide burnt offerings at altars (the word literally means "high place") and later on the practice was continued in the Temple of Jerusalem.
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A wether is a castrated male goat.Remarkable goats also feature in the history of the famous Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece. In the 6th century BCE, (at the same time as many believe the historical Buddha walked the earth,) the influential Athenian (Greek) political leader (Gr. archon), Cleisthenes, chose as the location for a new temple to Phoebus Apollo, the sun god, a relatively inaccessible rocky spur of Mt. ParnassosIn Indian cosmogony, Prakriti, the un-manifested mother is depicted as a female goat.
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