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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
birdman en · NOUN
Meanings
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A man who works with birds.
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(informal) An aviator.
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A mythological creature that is part man and part bird.
The ithyphallic bird-man is the climactic, ecstatic, instantaneous male principle confronting the enormous, slow, bovine, and enduring principle of the eternal feminine in her epiphany as the bison.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:
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