ege

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ege, m.n: fear, terror, dread; awe, respectful fear, reverence. (EH-yuh / ˈɛ-jə)

Poorly drawn medieval illustration of three sailors in a boat, their eyes wide in terror and hands clasped in prayer, and a siren with a woman’s head and arms and a fish tail and a mysterious forked limb protruding from its back.
Siren and sailors in Physiologus; Germany/Bavaria, 13th century; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, lat. 10448, f. 119r. [mandragore.bnf.fr]

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