A god who appears on Egyptian monuments of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods; he is shown as a rider who is bringing a libation to a rampant snake. This is very probably the horseman god → Heros, who was worshipped in Thrace and Asia Minor and who...

The heron blames the water because he cannot swim....

The herons are wading birds in the Ardeidae family. Some are called egrets or bitterns instead of herons. Within the family, all members of the genera Botaurus and Ixobrychus are referred to as bitterns, and—including the Zigzag Heron or Zigzag...