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	PBS - The Voyage of the Odyssey - Track the Voyage - MEDITERRANEAN SEA
		One of the earliest and best-known ornamentations is the 3,500 year old dolphin fresco on the wall of the Queen's bathroom in the ancient palace of Knossos on the island of Crete.
		Dolphins were part of Greek culture for thousands of years and are present in artworks wherever the Greeks had influence, from Rome to Mesopotamia.
		One of the earliest and best-known ornamentations is the dolphin fresco on the wall of the Queen's bathroom in the ancient palace of Knossos on the island of Crete.
	www.pbs.org /odyssey/odyssey/20040817_log_transcript.html (1423 words)

	dolphin, aquatic mammal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The dolphin’s intelligence, playfulness, and friendliness, its built-in smile and merry-looking eyes have been a source of interest and enchantment to human beings from earliest times; it is a common figure in mythology and literature and has been much depicted in art, especially in the posture of its graceful, arched, 30-ft (9-m) leap.
		Dolphins have long been famous for riding the bows of ships, and it is now known that they also ride the bows of large whales.
		Dolphins communicate by means of a demonstrably descriptive language understood by more than one species, using all the sounds in their repertory.
	www.bartleby.com /65/do/dolphin-mam.html (1382 words)

	Dolphin (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dolphins appear in a number of Greek myths, invariably as helpers of humankind.
		Dolphins also seem to have been important to the Minoans, judging by artistic evidence from the ruined palace at Knossos.
		A dolphin rescued the poet Arion from drowning and carried him safe to land, at Cape Taenarum, now Cape Matapan, a promontory forming the southernmost point of the Peloponnesus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dolphin_(mythology) (279 words)

	Dolphin (mythology) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dolphins also seem to have been important to the (A Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC) Minoans, judging by artistic evidence from the ruined palace at (An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC) Knossos.
		A dolphin rescued the poet (additional info and facts about Arion) Arion from drowning and carried him safe to land, at Cape Taenarum, now Cape Matapan, a promontory forming the southernmost point of the (The southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC) Peloponnesus.
		There was a temple to ((Greek mythology) the god of the sea and earthquakes in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and Hades and Hera; identified with Roman Neptune) Poseidon and a statue of Arion riding the dolphin.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/dolphin_(mythology).htm (284 words)

	frontline: a whale of a business: man & marine mammals: dolphins in ancient mythology
		If the dolphin is implicated in some way in the transition between this world and the next it is no surprise to find that it is also associated with Dionysos, who himself dies and is reborn again each year in his role as the god of vegetation, and who was also worshipped at Delphi.
		Dolphins were once human, and they retain human characteristics such as care for their young and sociability.
		The hunting of dolphins is immoral and whoever willingly devises destruction for dolphins can no more draw nigh the gods as a welcome sacrificer nor touch their altars with clean hands but pollutes those who share the same roof with him.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/whales/man/myth.html (2149 words)

	Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dolphins are certain aquatic mammals related to whales and porpoises.
		The dolphin brain is large and has a highly structured cortex, which often is referred to in discussions about their high intelligence.
		Dolphins do not have acute eyesight nor do they appear to have a good sense of smell, although their sense of hearing is far above our own.
	dolphinpoolcleaner.com (949 words)

	The POD - Cetacean Mythology... Swim with dolphins and whales in the wild!
		Only one dolphin — a pregnant female — had been spared, and the son to which she gave birth, named Dinginjabana, was stronger and wiser than any of the dolphins that had gone before, and was the first of the friendly, intelligent dolphins we know today.
		The people would also consult the dolphins for answers and insights on important tribal matters (apparently by use of telepathy), and the tribe believed that the spirits of their dead would transform into dolphin bodies and remain offshore, helping and guiding the familiar members of the human tribe on land.
		As soon as the dorsal fins of dolphins are spotted, some of the men bang rocks together beneath the water's surface to confuse and scare the dolphins, who instinctively move away from the noise — into the nets of the waiting fishermen who have sailed on ahead.
	www.people-oceans-dolphins.com /Mythology (2344 words)

	Arion 2, Greek Mythology Link.
		These were the dolphins, and for some the story of Arion 2 shows once more that to this clever animal alone nature has granted what many philosophers seek, namely friendship for no advantage; for the dolphin has no need at all of men, and yet it is their genial friend.
		Many thoughts came to Arion 2's mind, according to his own account, while he was being carried by the dolphins through a sea without a wave and under a sky dotted with stars; for he remembered the gods, the many eyes of Justice, and a few other things that are usually remembered on such circumstances.
		And when the shore appeared in their path, the dolphins skirted close to land, and deposited him on the beach with the same care as a boat is brought into harbour.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Arion2.html (1513 words)

	Tattoos Pictures
		The family Delphinidae is the largest in the Cetacea, and relatively recent: dolphins evolved about 10 million years ago, during the Miocene.
		Dolphins, along with whales and porpoises, are descendants of land-living mammals, most likely of the Artiodactyl order.
		Dolphins trained to perform in front of an audience have become a favorite attracton at places such as SeaWorld.
	www.tattoos-pictures.com /dolphin-tattoo.htm (958 words)

	Dolphins, Whales and DreamTime - Trisha Lamb Feuerstein
		She knew immediately that taking people out to spend time with dolphins was what she wanted to do, quit her psychotherapy job, and has been taking people out to swim with the same pods of Atlantic spotted dolphins in the clear waters of the Bahamas for the past several years.
		In mythology, the dolphin is a psychopomp, one who guides souls to the afterworld, and is also associated with Dionysus, the god of liquids and dissolution.
		In one dream, a dolphin was a profound sign of healing and fertility, the dreamer becoming pregnant shortly thereafter, after many years of infertility.
	www.fortunecity.com /westwood/vivienne/598/asd-13/4r30.htm (2021 words)

	Hunt and Peck\| When Flipper Kills
		The dolphin doll was a new addition to his collection of several dozen "Willies and Flippers." This one sported the yellow and fl markings on its cheeks.
		Dolphins have been observed battering large numbers of smaller porpoises by the hundreds.
		My guess is that the dolphins and Ocras are blissfully ignorant of 20th century Western moral terms, and we shouldn't attempt to apply our morality to the animal kingdom.
	www.tidepool.org /hp/hpflipper.cfm (1088 words)

	Armorial Gold Heraldry clipart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sin (the moon and vegetation-god of Mesopotamia mythology) is regarded as lord of the calendar and was depicted as riding on a winged Bull (his sacred ANIMAL).
		In Greek mythology the Sphinx was a winged monster with the head and breasts of a woman and the body of a lion.
		In Greek mythology, the Vulture is the descendant of the Griffin, and was the symbol of heaven and earth, spirit and matter, good and evil, a guardian and an avenger.
	www.heraldryclipart.com /m24learn.html (20698 words)

	Dolphin (mythology) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dolphins seem to have been important to the Minoans judging by artistic evidence from the palace at Knossos.
		I first learned of this book when I bought "Journey of the Pink Dolphins" and saw that it was one of the books mentioned in the bibliographic section.
		Curious to learn more about the pink river dolphins and their place in Brazilian folklore, I b...
	www.freeglossary.com /Dolphin_(mythology) (553 words)

	SoapRocks® PictureBar™ - Dolphin - soap with an artistic flair
		Gentle, playful, loving, perhaps the most intelligent being of the planet, dolphins “hear” human emotion through the vast waters of their ocean home, and gather to rescue swimmers in distress.
		In mythology, the dolphin is the vital power of the sea, a sacred guide to the worlds of undisguised bliss.
		Let the dolphin be your guide to a new natural world as you bathe in the scents of the sea.
	www.tspink.com /product/dolphin.html (134 words)

	83.02.12: Dolphins and Whales In Mythology Part One of a Multidisciplinary Unit
		The senses of communication necessary for the river dolphins to survive in their environment were a perfect template for further development of intraspecies communication and the development of intelligent societies.
		Dolphins appear in the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus and to Pythian Apollo.
		After dolphins came into being, as described in the Homeric Hymns, the first to learn of their usefulness was Poseidon, the god of the ocean.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/2/83.02.12.x.html (4627 words)

	Apollo
		His attributes are the bow and arrows, on his head a laurel crown, and the cithara (or lyre) and plectrum.
		However, to make amends for killing Python, as the fearsome beast was the son of Gaia, Apollo had to serve king Admetus for nine years (in some versions eight) as a cowherd.
		This he did, and when he returned to Pytho he came in the guise of a dolphin bringing with him priests from Crete (Apollo's cult title "Delphinios" meaning dolphin or porpoise, is probably how Delphi was so named).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/a/apollo.html (1628 words)

	Na Cidade Secreta dos Golfinhos: Comment on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dolphin behaviour Dolphins are amongst the most intelligent of all animals.
		Dolphins are also famous for their willingness to occassionally approach humans and interact with them in the water.
		The face of the foremost dolphin is actually reconstructed - as the picture originally ended at his neck." "Dolphins" by Igor Beres Commentary: "Dolphins waiting for lunch." Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.
	blogs.sapo.pt /comentar?entry_id=319905 (3800 words)

	ASK Archive 1998: human-dolphin communication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is particularly true in an area like human-dolphin communication, where there is a lot of wishful thinking, arm waving, and mythology, but little hard science.
		Currently the person doing (and publishing) the most work with dolphin communicative capabilities is Dr. Lou Herman from the University of Hawaii.
		John Lilly was the person most responsible for spreading the mythology about dolphin speech and dolphin intelligence, but his work was not very scientific, so read it with a sceptical mind (in fact, a good scientist reads everything with a sceptical mind).
	whale.wheelock.edu /archives/ask98/0600.html (388 words)

	An outline of the book 'Half Human, Half Animal: Tales of Werewolves and Related Creatures' by Jamie Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Amazon River Dolphin- Introduces the boto, or freshwater dolphin of the Amazon River in Brazil, which is the subject of the rest of the chapter.
		Lovers and Love Children- 6 tales involving romance between humans and encantados or the children resulting from such unions, plus a discussion of hoaxes created by pregnant women who wanted to conceal the real identity of their baby's father.
		Revenge, Death and Insanity- 4 tales of enchanted dolphins taking revenge on people, being the object of revenge, or causing insanity.
	www.jh-author.com /outline2.htm (1810 words)

	Constellation Delphinus
		The Greeks may have inherited Delphinus from India, where is was also identified with a dolphin or porpoise.
		Arion saw that the dolphins seemed very pleased with his song and just before he reached the end of it he plunged overboard amid the dolphins.
		King Periander crucified them to the last man. So pleased was Apollo with the good dolphin's role in rescuing Arion that the god gave the dolphin a place among the stars.
	www.coldwater.k12.mi.us /lms/planetarium/myth/delphinus.html (398 words)

	CSI Projects and Proposals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We have photographs, audio recordings of classes, interviews with researchers and activists and artists and therapists and recordings of performances relating to Dolphin mythology.
		The Executive Director was one of the primary presenters of a series of over 45 workshops, spanning two and half years, called The Dolphin Radiance Experience, in which an electronic system devised to facilitate inter-species communication was used with Humans to explore inner space, the nature of language and altered consciousness.
		This system involved a sound-based technology, and offered the participants an opportunity to feel themselves entering a state of mind that was conducive to extraordinary personal insight, and to investigate internally, the sounds and language of Dolphins and Whales.
	www.linknet.com.au /dolphin/Projects.html (493 words)

	All words on Dolphin
		For other uses of the term, please see dolphin (disambiguation).'' See article below.
		Dolphins are predators, chasing their prey at high speed.
		Common dolphin prey species in the eastern Ionian Sea
	www.allwords.org /do/dolphin.html (1185 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Dolphin.
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Dolphin.
		The dolphin is noted for its changes of colour when taken out of the water.
		Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues
	www.bartleby.com /81/5189.html (91 words)

	The Whale-Watching-Web: Cetacean Nonfiction Bibliography
		It documents how dolphins in Mexico are cruelly captured from the wild to suffer short lives in unnatural and unhealthy captive environments; trained even by starvation to perform and interact with tourists.
		It involves a catalogue of crass carelessness--the killing, for instance, of 10 million dolphins as a waste-product of the post-war tuna fishery--and at the heart of the story, of course, are the whales themselves.
		Also included are appendices on classification, fresh-water dolphins, protective legislation, and dolphins in the circus and in the laboratory, as well as an illustrated glossary, a bibliography, and an index.
	www.helsinki.fi /~lauhakan/whale/literature/biblion.html (15675 words)

	Hippocampus
		The hippocampus was a fabled sea animal from Greek mythology.
		It resembles a horse with the hind parts of a fish or dolphin.
		Article "Hippocampus" created on 30 July 1997; last modified on 28 January 2002 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/h/hippocampus.html (59 words)

	Zane Webb - Dolphins, Whales, Oceans, Underwater Photography,Video and Images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A very good friend, Dr Jason Cressey, who as well as spending more time in an airplane than on land, has an indelible appetite to dolphins and dolphin mythology in particular.
		The Marine Connection www.marineconnection.org Based in London, run by Liz and Margaux - both from Scotland - this charity is a highly committed and professional concern committed to dolphin, whals and ocean conservation.
		International Dolphin Watch www.idw.org A UK charity, run by the indomitable Dr Horace Dobbs, helping dolphins and furthering research into the dolphin/human connection.
	www.zanewebb.com /Links.asp (222 words)

	OLYMPIANS, Greek Mythology Link.
		Poseidon is associated to Horses, which were first tamed by him, and also to Bulls.
		Poseidon is often depicted with a Dolphin, probably the same Dolphin which persuaded Amphitrite to marry this god.
		Zeus' main attribute is the Thunderbolt, which he received from the CYCLOPES.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/OLYMPIANS.html (1286 words)

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