2007-01-26 12:03:17 · 6 answers · asked by a sock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you look among various nations from all the world how many of them have knowledge of the same mythical figures - dragon, unicorn and others, you may wonder, how is it that they have just the same animals in their "myths" without being in contact with each other? Well, it's because those stories about them have been preserved since the time of a great flood, because some of them exited before the flood. Also, we may think that some of them have come to existance as a result of inapropriate yet willing crossing made by the knowledgable man before the Flood.
2007-01-26 12:13:08 · answer #1 · answered by CyberPastor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Unicorn" was not originally a horse with a horn. When the KJV was translated, "unicorn" referred to a single-horned rhino, and "bicorn" referred to a double-horned rhino. The terms "unicorn" and "bicorn" are used frequently in Medieval and Renaissance texts to describe a rhinocerous. The modern "unicorn" came later - fairytale authors selected an obscure word to describe a mythical beast.
From 'The Shadow of Ideas' by Bruno:
Bicorni [2-horned rhino] acta discrimine,
Quaeis trucem ostendit vultum dextri tramitis:
Finem largitur optimum.
A cockatrice is the Hebrew tsepha, or adder.
2007-01-26 12:18:15 · answer #2 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cockatrice is a middle eastern venereal disease and I hear it burns like the FLAMES OF HELLL
2007-01-26 12:08:39 · answer #3 · answered by 818er 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad translation; originally, god was as swift as an oryx, not a unicorn.
That gives us a pretty good idea of the speed of the judeo-christian god. It's well under the speed of sound.
2007-01-26 12:11:15 · answer #4 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wiped out by republicans of Old
2007-01-26 12:21:34 · answer #5 · answered by sdr35hw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are metaphors.
2007-01-26 12:08:33 · answer #6 · answered by Angelz 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋