Supernatural Collective Nouns
Well I never! I’ve come across Blessings and Polycorn Posses but I’ve never come across a Fondle of Unicorns. It’s rather a fitting collective noun given the nature of my own unicorn studies and so I think that’s the term I’ll roll with from now on. via Wondermark Thanks to @Dorkomatic for the tip of [...]
The Alchemist’s Unicorn
Unicorn – the masculine, penetrating aspect of *Mercurius, the mercurial spirit. The third emblem in The Book of Lambspring shows the unicorn and deer in a forest. The accompanying text identifies the unicorn as the spirit, the deer (*cervus fugitives) as the soul, and the forest (i.e. dark place) as the body of the Stone. [...]
The Raynbow which shall overgoe…
The attainment of the *peacock’s tail stage which occurs after the black *nigredo and heralds the coming of the white *albedo. During the process known as the *ablution, when the cleansing showers of mercurial water descend from the top of of the alembic to purify the blackened body below, a rainbow appears to show that [...]
The Lunar Unicorn & The Solar Lion
“The Unicorn itself is a lunar creature, and as such it constantly fights with the solar lion.” “The lunar unicorn is in perpertual confilst with the solar lion. One of the odlest reports of their antagonism occurs in the early Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (known as the Septuagint), in which an immense mythic [...]
Horn Mutilation
The following extract is taken from notes written by Francois Levaillant, a French author, explorer and naturalist. I had not yet taken a near view of the horned cattle which (the herdsmen) brought with them, because at the break of the day they strayed to the thickets and pastures, and were not brought back by [...]
The Evolution of Unicorns
The evolution of the two-horned Plioceros type of antelope into the single-horned Monoceros type of modern unicorn is one of the most remarkable facets of mammalian evolution, for only rarely do equally paired anatomical structures disappear to be replaced by a single one. However, in some early unicorns (Plioceros abequalis) the two horns were of [...]
Anatomy of a Unicorn
Ever wondered what you’d find if you sliced and diced a unicorn? Well I found this lovely diagram via www.thinkgeek.com. Though of course any unicorn farmer worth a sparkle knows that slicing and dicing a unicorn would not be a smart move.
The Unicorn Code
Unicorns never cheat. Unicorns always lend a helping hand. Unicorns don’t talk to strangers. Unicorns respect the Earth. Unicorns are never late. Unicorns aren’t conceited. Unicorns don’t judge people. Unicorns always give 100%. Unicorns only use their horns if they have to. Unicorns don’t do drugs. via www.cultofunicorn.com
The Chinese Unicorn
The Chinese Unicorn, or K’Lin, is one of the four animalsof good omen; the others are the Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Tortoise. The Unicorn is the foremost of the four legged animals; it has the body of a Kiun (or deer), the tail of an ox, and the hoofs of a horse; the horn [...]
Jorge Luis Borges’ Unicorn
The first version of the Unicorn is nearly identical with the latest. Four hundred years B.C., the Greek historian and physician Ctesias told that among the kingdoms of India there were very swift wild asses with white coats, purple heads, blue eyes, and in the middle of their foreheads a pointed horn whose base was [...]