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consisting of three parts, with leaves and blossoms, f is a musk-deer ; g, a stag ; 

 //, the cock running out into a fish-body ; i, a conventionalized bird ; j, a roe. 

 Outside of the dragons we observe a conventionalized tree with roots (three 







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semicircles in succession), trunk, boughs, and foliage, by which is indicated 

 symbolically the primeval forest, the so-called taiga, where the whole, animal 

 kingdom nests, k denotes a swan floating on the surface of the water, with a 



