Assertion: pigeon's bird | /r/HasProperty | sacred
Facets:
value: to the early middle eastern cultures
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: To ancient peoples a white pigeon would have seemed miraculous and this explains why the bird was widely worshipped and considered to be sacred.
text: To ancient peoples a white pigeon would have seemed miraculous and this explains why the bird was widely worshipped and considered to be sacred.
text: Evidence for domestication extends back to 4500 bce in ancient Iraq, and the bird was sacred to the early Middle Eastern cultures, being associated with Astarte, the goddess of love and fertility; later, in ancient Greece, it was sacred to Aphrodite and in Roman times to Venus.