Hi Fearn,
You are not one of the "enemy." And I cannot compete with a PhD.... I am a lowly Color Chemist.
Paradigms are our best friends and worst enemies; sometimes we get stuck in the “box.” There is a PhD Biologist that is currently looking for “Bigfoot,” although Bigfoot may not be the creature people think it is. Due to a personal experience (sighting), he is looking for evidence for Gigantopithecus, another animal that should not be around today, but may have surviving relatives that crossed over to North America.
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Originally Posted by fearn
Why assume that the people who wrote "here be dragons" were describing real animals? They were just as good at making things up as we are. Fearn
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I would agree, if the legends were localized to a region. A worldwide series of myths with many similarities... is a bit more difficult to discount as being simple imagination. For example, if you were to look at the earth creation myths from all of these areas, they would have little or nothing in common. Then examine their description of dragons; it becomes a bit uncanny to their similarities... unless someone is willing to change “known” history and say that all of these people were in communication with each other (Asia, Africa, India, Europe, Americas, etc.) and shared or spread a myth 1500 to 4000 years ago... there is a mystery worthy of investigation. How did it all happen?
We may never know the answer... and I my be chalk full of blue berry muffins! My real goal was to collect a few of thest stories. But, I guess not.
BTW, did you send it Overnite or Second Day?
