Unicorn hunting

unicorn, mythological animal resembling a horse with a single horn on its forehead. The unicorn appeared in early Mesopotamian artworks, and it also was referred to in the ancient myths of India and China. In ancient China, the unicorn (called the qilin) was said to appear at the birth of a sage. In the fifth century BCE, Greek historian Ctesias described the three-color pattern of the mystical creature and its single horn. The scholar Francesca Tagliatesta points out that Ctesias almost certainly borrowed from Persian stories dating to the ninth through eighth centuries BCE. In this piece I have shown a unicorn that has been hunted. How to hunt and why to hunt these legendary creatures ha...View all