. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture . he Bestiaries, when the pea-cock awakes, it cries out in fear because itdreams that it has lost its beauty : so theChristian must fear to lose the good qualitieswith which God has endowed his soul. The pelican, sacrificing itself for its young,is a symbol with which we are all more orless familiar. It is mentioned in Ps. cii. 6,together with the owl of the desert as a typeof the despairing soul. Canon Tristram thinksthat this allusion is due to the pelicansmournful attitude which is assumed for hoursafter it is gorged with
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture . he Bestiaries, when the pea-cock awakes, it cries out in fear because itdreams that it has lost its beauty : so theChristian must fear to lose the good qualitieswith which God has endowed his soul. The pelican, sacrificing itself for its young,is a symbol with which we are all more orless familiar. It is mentioned in Ps. cii. 6,together with the owl of the desert as a typeof the despairing soul. Canon Tristram thinksthat this allusion is due to the pelicansmournful attitude which is assumed for hoursafter it is gorged with fish. At such times itremains with its bill resting on its breast. Canon Cheyne in the Encyclopedia Biblicawrites that the common fable about the peli-can giving its life for its young comes originallyfrom Egypt, and also that the same fablewas once attached to the vulture. Naturally,the pelican is an emblem of the atoning workof Christ. The Bestiaries say that the pelicans arefond of their young, but when the lattergrow older, they begin to strike their parents 138.
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