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Imitation of birds (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Birdcall text (symbolism of birds and their calls) 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.10 Esoteric lore and hermeneutics 05.10.01 Esoteric texts 05.10.01.05 Birdcall text (symbolism of birds and their calls)	Keywords birds imitations
Period 6th century CE Byzantine Empire	Channel Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
Damascius, Philosophical History 59F:
Proclus was bemused by Isidore’s imitation of the cries and other noises produced by birds. Sometimes during the Chaldean rituals he gave a display of his imitation of sparrows and hens and other birds fluttering their wings as they rose themselves for flight.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Damascius, Philosophical History 59F

Bibliography

Athanassiadi 1999, 166-167

Athanassiadi, Polymnia. The Philosophical History. Text with translation and notes. Athens: Agameia 1999.

Amar Annus

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