“Yet another phrase we get from falconry,” said Healy-Rennison, who advised me to add the extra grip of my pinkie. Only now I was standing in the place where the phrase was born – in the wet green woods of the Anglo-Irish gentry, with a giant hawk on my wrist, her jesses wrapped around my little finger. “Quite literally,” I replied, amused to learn the etymology of a phrase that I’ve used for most of my life. “Now she’s ‘under your thumb’,” Healy-Rennison explained with a smile. “Hold onto Lima,” Healy-Rennison commanded, as I tightly pinched the speckle-feathered bird’s jesses, or tethers, under my thumb. The day was warm and overcast, a dry spell following the wet and gloomy Irish morning. As we stepped deeper into the ancient woods, massive tree trunks rose up like Greek columns with a vaulted ceiling of green, heart-shaped leaves. До наших часів не дійшло жодного збереженого примірника корони шуті.We were hunting for small game in the vast forest – some 350 acres of thick woodlands – surrounding historic Ashford Castle at the northern tip of Lough Corrib in western Ireland. They can be compared to the ostrich features in the Atef crown of Osiris, or the single ostrich feather that symbolizes Maat. The tail feathers in this crown are generally straight, and are assumed to be the tail feathers of a falcon. One popular use of the Shuti, two-feather crown is by the deity Amun, one of his many crowns he is portrayed wearing.
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