This charm honors the little-toothed member of the order called cetaecens. Like their larger whale cousins, their ancestors began on land and took to the sea nearly 500 million years ago. In Hindu mythology, dolphins are represented as the Makara, a combination sea creature that carried the God Varuna while Amazonians and the Rapa Nui people think of them as shapeshifters. In ancient Greece, Taras, who founded the city that bore his name, was rescued from a shipwreck by a dolphin sent by Poseidon.
