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2008-10-08
鹈鹕与血
Michiel要去血库献血。今天他收到血库的信,填完单子开始画画,我问他在画什么,他说就是这个血库的logo,pelican(上面这只橘黄色的鸟). 然后告诉我,根据中世纪欧洲的传说,pelican会在食物不足的情况下,在自己身上戳一个伤口,以自己的血作为雏鸟的食物。
后来我得知pelican就是鹈鹕,非常惊讶,原来除了嘴会变大,能放很多鱼,鹈鹕还有宗教意义。当然,现实中的鹈鹕,不用血喂食的。。。下面关于其宗教意义的解释来自wikipedia:
In medieval Europe, the pelican was thought to be particularly attentive to her young, to the point of providing her own blood when no other food was available. As a result, the pelican became a symbol of the Passion of Jesus and of the Eucharist. It also became a symbol in bestiaries for self-sacrifice, and was used in heraldry ("a pelican in her piety" or "a pelican vulning (wounding) herself"). Another version of this is that the pelican used to kill its young and then resurrect them with its blood, this being analogous to the sacrifice of Jesus. Thus the symbol of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) is a pelican, and for most of its existence the headquarters of the service was located at Pelican House in Dublin, Ireland.
以自我牺牲来换取子嗣的生命的延续,这么看来,用鹈鹕作为血库的logo,其中的故事是切题且动人的。
上面提到的Irish Blood Transfusion Service的logo。血滴形状加非常柔美的鹈鹕造型。
一只真的大鹈鹕~~
鹈鹕以血哺育为题材的彩窗
路易斯安那州州旗。。。
注意彩窗和旗子上,鹈鹕胸前的“带血的伤口”。
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