The symbolism of the Dolphin

Symbolically, the dolphin was the means of transport of the gods.
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CREDITS

David Rock-Evans - video footage and video editing by David Rock-Evans. The video was taken from a boat cruising off Baja California in Mexico

Wouter Bosman – some still photos of dolphins, taken in the Bahamas.

Other photos from Pinit and with no attribution

Paintings and sculptures

Rubens - Cupid riding a dolphin
François Boucher – Arion on the Dolphin, 1748
Eros with dolphin 2nd century AD – Italy National Archaeological Museum, Naples
Kannon atop Shachihoko
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Arion on a Dolphin (1855)
Cornelis van Haarlem - Arion on a Dolphin
Arion, playing his kithara and riding dolphins. Sculpture by Jean Raon [fr] (Grove of the Domes [fr], gardens of Versailles)
Ptolemy with an armillary sphere model, by Joos van Ghent and Pedro Berruguete, 1476, Louvre, Paris

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MUSIC
The Shallows by Gilmore Trail

We are Gilmore Trail, an instrumental post-rock band based in Sheffield in the UK.

We have Danny and Dave on guitars, Joe on bass and Bob on drums.
We supplement our core band sound with synth, soundscapes and field recordings, taking our cues from aspects of progressive rock.
Our music is purely instrumental, inspired by the vastness and majesty of the natural world.

We feel that the music takes us and the listener on various journeys, from rolling green hills to icy wastes, from the most arid deserts shooting up into the astonishing emptiness and stillness of deep space.
Our website can be found at www.gilmoretrail.co.uk
We can be contacted at info@gilmoretrail.co.uk