ORIGINAL Eagle Vintage Sculpture USSR Hand carved Home decor1967 Wooden figurin.

Description: Since ancient times, the eagle has been a symbol of strength and power, both of individuals, powerful kings and heroes, and of entire kingdoms and peoples, such as Babylon and Egypt[2]. Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII (116-107 BC) made the eagle a symbol of Egypt and ordered the image of an eagle to be embossed on Egyptian coins. Other sources indicate that the eagle symbolizes power, dominance, supremacy and sagacity (state sagacity). In pagan, ancient times, the eagle served as an attribute and symbol of a deity or monarch. Thus, in Ancient Greece and Rome, it was an attribute of Zeus and Jupiter, respectively; among the Persians (Cyrus), the image of a golden eagle was carried at the head of an advancing army or in front of the tsar-commanders motorcade. Roman generals had an image of an eagle on their staffs, as a sign of dominance over the active army (that is, an offensive, active force). Later, when the most successful commanders became emperors, the eagle was turned into an exclusive imperial sign, a symbol of supreme power. Therefore, the eagle received the official name Roman bird (Latin: avis Romana) in Roman legislation. In biblical symbolism, the eagle had a contradictory interpretation. In the manuscripts it was a symbol of an unclean bird eating carrion. At the same time, in the Bible the eagle was regarded as a symbol of power and greatness. The eagle is also the emblem ofJohn the Evangelist[1]. In the Middle Ages, the use of the eagle was the prerogative of only states at the rank of empire. When new empire-states arose on the ruins of the Roman Empire, they appropriated the image of an eagle as their main emblem, indicating that they traced their history and genealogy back to Ancient Rome, from the Roman Caesars (including Ivan IV Vasilyevich the Terrible)[3] . Coat of arms of the city of Oryol, founded by order of Ivan the Terrible in 1566 The Christian Church considers the eagle a symbol of secular power and monarchs[1]. In Catholic symbolism, the image of an eagle and its mention were used as an allusion to the Ascension of Christ[1]. In Protestantism in the 17th-18th centuries, the eagle was a symbol of the perfection of man and the Christian, a saint who, like a bird, is higher than others[1]. In Orthodoxy, the eagle was recognized as a symbol of exclusively secular power, and Christianity flexibly used the eagle in accordance with historical circumstances[1]. In evangelical symbolism, the eagle serves as a symbol of the holy spirit, which was later replaced by the dove[1]. In the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment, as well as partly in early bourgeois revolutionary symbolism, the eagle was a symbol of intelligence, strength and fearlessness, and in the symbolism of the era of imperialism - a symbol of power (USA)[1].

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