Imitation of the form or appearance of a sacred animal, embellishment of the initiate, or consecration of a part of the body to a deity have been suggested as motives; but there is no clear evidence of such designs.
Leprous taint is transferred to a bird, which, having been dipped in the blood of a sacred animal, is allowed to fly away carrying the taint off from the community.
The goat was at one time a sacred animal or embodiment of Athena, as may be inferred from the practice of representing the goddess clad in a goat-skin (aegis).
The bear can hardly, therefore, be described as a sacred animal of the Aino, nor yet as a totem; for they do not call themselves bears, and they kill and eat the animal freely.
A cow is considered a sacred animal by the Hindu, and therefore not to be eaten.
Cow fat on cartridges, a desecration of the Hindu religion--the cow being a sacred animal to the people of that faith--was the fuse that ignited the mutiny bomb in 1857.
To the Barotse native the crocodile is a sacred animal, and, as he will not harm the voracious beasts, deaths of both natives and Europeans by crocodiles occur frequently in this part of Rhodesia.
At one time in Assyria the god was always associated with a sacred animal, often the goat, which was supposed to possess the qualities for which the god was worshipped.
One sees in the religions of antiquity, especially those of India, Assyria, Greece and Egypt, a great number of sacred animal representations.
A young bear is captured, suckled by a woman, and assumes the aspects of a sacred animal.
The view that in Egypt the pig was a sacred animal is borne out by the very facts which, to moderns, might seem to prove the contrary.
Amongst the Omaha Indians of North America men whose totem (sacred animal or plant) is the elk, believe that if they ate the flesh of the male elk they would break out in boils and white spots in different parts of their bodies.
The goat was at one time a sacred animal or embodiment of Athene, as may be inferred from the practice of representing her clad in a goat-skin (aegis).
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacred animal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
