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    "title": "Little Horn",
    "description": "A small power that grows, speaks greatly, watches, and displaces established authority.",
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    "modified_utc": "2026-06-20T20:28:38Z",
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        "alt": "Little Horn symbol plate. A short branch grows from a larger crown of terminals; a small open eye and speech-notch indicate attention and proclamation without literal portraiture."
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        "name": "Little Horn",
        "classification": "Primary text · Disputed reading · High-risk symbol",
        "one_line_meaning": "A small power that grows, speaks greatly, watches, and displaces established authority.",
        "principal_source": "Daniel 7 describes a little horn among ten horns, with human-like eyes and a boastful mouth; Daniel 8 uses related horn imagery in a different historical vision.",
        "historical_interpretations": "Historical interpretations include Antiochus IV, Roman and post-Roman powers, persecuting rulers, institutions, and future figures. These readings should remain labeled and source-specific.",
        "visual_anatomy": "A short branch grows from a larger crown of terminals; a small open eye and speech-notch indicate attention and proclamation without literal portraiture.",
        "civic_reading": "The civic analogy is a seemingly minor office, classifier, exception, or technical standard that expands into system-wide authority while claiming special insight.",
        "misuse_warning": "Eyes, surveillance, intelligence, and boastful speech are interpretive motifs, not evidence that a particular agency or person is prophetic fulfillment.",
        "does_not_prove": "It does not prove that a modern monitoring system, leader, agency, or reform movement is the little horn.",
        "related_symbols": [
            "Seven Heads / Ten Horns / Crowns",
            "Man of Lawlessness",
            "Cognitive Jurisdiction",
            "Hidden Orthodoxy Engine"
        ],
        "disputed_readings": "Chapter-specific historical settings and later eschatological syntheses must not be collapsed into one uncontested timeline.",
        "suggested_image": "Use Daniel 7–8 and reception history side by side.",
        "source_ids": [
            "daniel-seven",
            "daniel-eight",
            "hippolytus"
        ],
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        "glyph_logic": "Small expanding branch with open eye and speech-notch.",
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        "alt": "Little Horn symbol plate. A short branch grows from a larger crown of terminals; a small open eye and speech-notch indicate attention and proclamation without literal portraiture.",
        "width": 1086,
        "height": 1448,
        "image_provenance": "Original raster studio plate generated for the Antichrist.net Symbol Atlas high-resolution expansion.",
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