| "All of the beasts obeyed Noah when he admitted them into the ark. All but the unicorn. Confident of his strength he boasted 'I shall swim!'. For fourty days and fourty nights the rains poured down and the oceans boiled as in a pot and all the heights were flooded. The birds of the air clung onto the ark and when the ark pitched they were all engulfed. But the unicorn kept on swimming. When, however, the birds emerged again they perched on his horn and he went under -- and that's why there are no more unicorns now." -- from a Ukranian folk tale
The unicorn is returning, if only symbolically. It is that symbolism that people are seeking today, the idea of natural truth, purity, and love that much of society has lost in the shadow of technology. Odell Shepard wrote, 'It is not that the men of the Middle Ages who believed in unicorns were less intellegent than we; their intellegence was turned in a different direction... we wrong ourselves when we insist that if they cannot make good their flesh and blood actuality on our level we will have none of them'. To find the unicorn, as the ancients did, we have to unlearn what we have learned; we must go back to an earlier way of looking at the world. Only then will we find the unicorn.
Most mythological creatures represent man's worst traits, and are usually more evil than animals, or man. They kill for pleasure, and are often involved in unspeakable atrocities. The unicorn is an exception to the rule, being a symbol of purity, hope, love, and majesty. |
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