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Bobblehead Unicorn

 

The unicorn is truly a mystical creature of many legends. It is usually portrayed as a slender, white horse with a spiraling horn on its forehead, although its appearance and behavior differs, depending on the location. In the western world it was usually considered wild and untamable, while in the Orient it was peaceful, meek and thought to be the bringer of good luck. There it is usually depicted as a goat-like creature, with cloven hooves and a beard.

The word "unicorn" is based on the Hebrew word re'em ("horn"), which in early versions of the Old Testament was translated as "monoceros", meaning "one horn". This became "unicorn" in English.

In the west the unicorn was first mentioned in 398 BC by Ctesias, a Greek physician and historian of Persia and India. He traveled to the Persian court and remained there working as a physician for 17 years under two rulers. Upon his return to Greece in 398, Ctesias began writing his Persicha, a history of Assyria-Babylonia totaling 23 books and covering the period of the ancient Assyrian monarchy, the founding of the Persian kingdom, and the history of Persia down to 398 BC. Although his material was gathered from Persian archives and state records, its credibility is dubious because of its legendary quality and the fact that Ctesias was writing expressly to contradict the chronology of the Greek historian Herodotus. Ctesias' work no longer exists, except in an abstract compiled by the patriarch Photius of Constantinople (c.860). Ctesias also wrote a history of India based on reports of Persian visitors and of Indian merchants and envoys to the Persian court. Although legendary and based solely on the accounts of others rather than direct observation, it was the only systematic account of India until Alexander the Great invaded that country.

According to Ctesias, unicorns lived in India. He described them as "wild asses which are as big as a horse, even bigger. Their bodies are white, their heads dark red and their eyes are deep blue. They have a single horn on their forehead which is approximately half-a-meter long." This description was based on the tales of travelers, and seems to be a mixture of an Indian rhinoceros, the Himalayan antelope, and the wild ass.

The horn itself has been described as white at the base, black in the middle and with a sharp, red tip. It was believed to possess healing abilities. Dust filed from the horn was thought to protect against poison, and many diseases and could even resurrect the dead. Amongst royalty and nobility in the Middle Ages, it became quite fashionable to own a drinking cup made of the horn of a unicorn because it was supposed to detect poison

 

LEGEND Bopp'n Head T stands 7" tall, is hand painted, and superbly detailed. Bopp'n HeadsT are unique polystone collectibles and are great "wobbly head" interactive stress relievers.
 

 

 

Legend Bobble Head Unicorn

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