Ancient UnicornThe first record of the Ancient Unicorn was written in 400 B.C., by a Greek named Ctesias. Both Aristotle and Plato mentioned Unicorns and their beauty in their writings. A Roman Emperor speaks of the amazing creatures and their incredible horns - and that was in about 50 B.C., how old is that? Were Unicorns Real?Wow...and these are the people and the time period that most of our great scientific and mathematical knowledge came from!The information handed down through the ages of humanity from these great thinkers and leaders, has been accepted by most of the scholars of today as being very important stuff. So why should we ever doubt the existence of Unicorns? This is, many believe, symbolic of our lost innocence, and of the Unicorn's purity and loyalty. Later in time Christianity associates the Unicorn with symbolism for Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. Horn used to protect from poison!The horn was used in ancient times as a drinking vessel. It was also thought that the Unicorn could purify a whole body of water just by dipping his horn into it. Poison must have been a serious issue in those days! There is a story of a Greek Scholar named Megasthenes who went on an adventure to India in order to investigate the reports of the Unicorns there called Cartazoon. He apparently wrote several books relating details about one of the features of a Unicorn that has been passed onto the modern-day image. He reported particularly on the spirals of a Unicorn's horn. PegasusAlso, from the ancient mythology there was the creature we call Pegasus, which has been caught up in the Unicorn legends.Pegasus is generally accepted as sort of a God-Like Unicorn, or even a Fairy Unicorn. If you are interested in the Ancient Unicorn , and more of the history then you will enjoy this page on Medieval Unicorns. I have another page about Unicorns in the Far East and this link will take you to a page about the different Unicorns there. The Ancient Unicorn has a history in almost every culture. If the History of the Unicorn isn't enough and you want some unicorn coloring pages follow the link to enjoy coloring the beautiful beasts.
The ArtDrawingSpeaking about Coloring Pages and...since this site is about the art as well, how about making some of that Ancient Unicorn art? I have just developed a page called how to draw a horse and it will help with the bare bones building blocks of drawing a horse. Since the fantasy unicorn is of so much interest I also have added a section on Pegasus the Flying Horse of Greek Mythology as well as some Pegasus Coloring Pages at the link. I love the Ancient Unicorn and want to help you create Unicorn Art of every form. So continue in my site to find out what else there is.
Other Creatures of the Fairy TaleWhile in the garden of any castle in a fairy tale, we imagine seeing Unicorns, we also know that there are many other magical creatures.Since we wonder about where the fairys came from, I have written a Fairy History, and even a history of the the word Fairy or Fairie. Most fairy tales have some relationship with the sea, and I wanted to write a bit of history about Merfolk, Mermaids,Sea Gods, and another legendary creature you might not know much about the Selkie. While we all expect to see princesses in the garden of a castle, if you follow the link you will visit my Princess Coloring Page, but I wanted to write a history about some of heros and villains in fairy tales and mythology. I wrote a page called Pirate History, just to get to research some of the fascinating people of fairy tales and history.
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