Tag: jesus
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Unicorn Week – The Devils Night Mare

Though the Bible gave credibility to the unicorn as a wild and intractable beast, it did not offer much in the way of description, as such it fell to folklore that grew around the various literary fragments. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Cloisters, a complex allegory of a Unicorn Hunt is…
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Unicorn Week – Christs’ White Horse

The Golden Legend is a collection of parables published in the 13th Century by James of Viraggio, Archbishop of Genoa, though believed to be an adaptation of a Buddhist parable in India, wherein a preacher named Barlaam was revered as a Christian saint, some believe the unicorn tale to represent an Indian rhino though through…
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Unicorn Week – Jesus! Its A Horse!

Around the 3rd Century BC, one King Ptolemy II of Egypt enlisted the help of seventy or seventy two scholars (sources vary on the exact amount) of Jewish descent to produce a Greek translation of the Old Testament, funnily enough, the word unicorn came into the bible quite by accident, of translation that is. Now…
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Unicorn Week – God’s Ponies

The King James Bible Has Seven References To Unicorns God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn Numbers 23:22, 24:8 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to…
