Animals
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VARIETIES:
Birds:
Crows and Ravens;
Fish:
Mammals:
Dogs;
Foxes;
Leopards;
Lions;
Pigs;
Wolves;
SYMBOLISM: "Wild and savage beasts" and "dumb brutes":
Those souls somehow incapable of, or hostile to, the perception of the Divine Light:
St. Gregory Theologos,
Orat. 28,
ii.
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