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FERRO, Xosé Ramón Mariño. Divine Animals. Medievalista [online]. 2021, n.29, pp.297-322. ISSN 1646-740X.  https://doi.org/10.4000/medievalista.3923.

This article is about divine animals in Egypt; of the comments they deserved from renowned Greco-Latin authors; of the reasons for its use. It also deals with some divine animals in Christianity and the survival of certain Egyptian iconographic motifs in the Middle Ages.

Palabras clave : Images; Gods; Iconography; Tetramorphs; Symbolism; Bestiary.

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