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The paper analyzes descriptions of three exotic beasts (hippopotamus, crocodile and cha­meleon) in Count Nicholas Radzivill’s travelogue Pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Egypt. Giving his first-hand impressions of the world totally unknown for the Europeans, the author endeavors to factually represent it basing on his own previous experience. This mode of representation, sheer devoid of mythological and fictional dimensions, is also applied to the fauna which was the object of the Author’s close attention. Taken against the background of the contemporary, predominantly mythological (antique and medieval) images of the beasts, the study of the representational mode applied by The Orphan allows to look upon the Polish traveler as areliable, inquisitive and sensitive observer.
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W artykule przeanalizowano opisy trzech egzotycznych zwierząt (hipopotama, krokodyla i ka­meleona) zdiariusza podróży do Ziemi Świętej iEgiptu księcia Mikołaja Radziwiłła Sierotki. Jego autor, opisując nowy — nieznany Europejczykowi — świat, starał się przedstawić go faktogra­ficznie zperspektywy własnych doświadczeń ispostrzeżeń. Ten sposób przekazu, odcinający się od wymysłów imitów, dotyczy również świata zwierząt, których Radziwiłł był bacznym obserwato­rem. Rozpatrzenie prezentacji przez Sierotkę trzech „bestii” na tle panujących wówczas mitycznych — antycznych iśredniowiecznych — wyobrażeń onich pozwala ujrzeć wrelacjach wiarygodnego, dociekliwego, lecz także wrażliwego autora.
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The ivory wands of the Middle Kingdom display various creatures to be annihilated by protective deities, especially snakes and human foes. It seems that the snakes pictured on the ivory wands represent chaotic numina of primeval times which endanger the uncreated and the animate world. The human foes on the other side are foreigners like Libyans, Asians, Nubians and rebels. It is interesting to note that the figures of the human foes are modelled after an archetype which is taken from the royal monuments showing the king smiting his enemies. While the foes represented on the royal monuments are put down by the king in the shape of a divine bull, lion, sphinx or griffin, the enemies of the ivory wands are smitten by divine forces, among them the hippopotamus-goddess, the lion, and a cat-goddess. The investigation concerns the religious background of the massacre, which is done by the divine forces on snakes and human foes. It is proposed to identify the fighting animals as protective deities originating in art from stellar constellations or decans protecting the mother and her child at the beginning of lifetime.
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