Alerion
Alerion
Latin name: Alerio, Alario.
Other names: Allerion, Allerion, Yllerion, Avalerion, Aualerion, Valeria.
Classification: Poultry fantastic.
Alerion - the king among the other birds. Is it a bird larger than an eagle with feathers the color of bright scarlet, like a flame and sharp as razor blades. She nestles in the mountains somewhere between the rivers Gidaspov (modern name - Jhelum) and Indus.
Throughout the world there is only one pair alerionov. Every ten (according to other sources - six) years aleriony pair flew to the sea, rise above it to yourself Sun, a red glow, and dive into the depths of the sea, flying from there got stronger and rejuvenated.
And every sixty years, the female lays two aleriona eggs, which aleriony sit exactly sixty days and nights. Once the egg shell begins to crack, aleriony leave the nest and accompanied by other birds are sent back to the sea. There they are again soar to the sun, red-hot-hot, dive into the abyss, but ... no longer emerges. Accompanying same alerionov birds return to nest and raise orphaned chicks until such time as they learn to fly. So here is the original way was solved problem of transfer of the throne of the kings of birds - alerionov.
Aleriony probably were described by Pliny (called Valeria), but the most widespread legends of them in Europe received after these birds have been mentioned in the letter no less fantastic than they Prester John (in the Russian tradition, the King of Pop John) to the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus in 1165.
During the Crusades alerion entered in heraldry. Heraldic alerion represents the shape of an eagle with outstretched wings, devoid of both legs and sometimes the beak. In Western European heraldry alerion close in meaning to merlette - flying a bird without a beak and claws and can symbolize the wounds and injuries received by participants in the Crusades.
Why heraldry so cruelly treated the king birds? And you think - that foot zacheshetsya, the beak and feathers something as sharp as razors ...
red sash already with three (!) White (!) Alerionami adorns Lorraine coat of arms. But not because many have been maimed Lorraine knights in the Crusades, but because the word «Allerion» is an anagram of the word «Lorraine» - The name of this historic region of France.
Ibid France in 1937 by designer Renee Rio (René Riout) was created ornithopter (Ornithopter) Riout R.102T Alerion. Alas, this fly beautiful car but could not.
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