Nature's blackest screamer.

[Øjeblikket]

Coyote

 

[TravisW]

I hate coyotes.

 

[Øjeblikket]

I heard that one coming from somewhere

I think a coyote stole our cross-eyed house cat last weekend. Cats don't really scream though.

 

[karpsmom]

What a totally random thread. haha

 

[Øjeblikket]

speaking of random.

Is it sensible to assume that such characters as Sisiutl were influenced by Viking ships, as we find here: "It seems likely that if the Vikings had indeed passed through the Pacific Northwest the impact of Viking ships might well have left an indelible impression. How would they have been perceived? Remember, these were the "Dragon Ships" with imposing dragon or serpentine figureheads, often on prow and stern; easily misunderstood as two-headed sea-monsters by the uninformed." http://www.nativeonline.com/legends.html

When the descriptions given to A'yahos clearly refer to a shaking much greater than man could make, as we find here: http://www.pnsn.org/HIST_CAT/SRL76-4Ludwin.pdf Granted, the physical manifestations of A'yahos as "environmental" effects such as landslides is the forebearing topic of what appears to be a geological study, but we must also observe the following excerpt from the same essay: "A'yahos is associated with shaking and rushes of turbid water and comes simultaneously from land and sea." The latter effects requiring further consideration. A'yahos's personal features are also curious: "The A'yahos is a shape-shifter, often appearing as an enormous serpent, sometimes double headed with blazing eyes and horns, or as a composite monster having the forequarters and head of a deer and the tail of a snake."

Notice also how figure 1 in the A'yahos essay displays a carving of A'yahos that is both similar to any ship featuring facial carvings, especially turned upside down, as well as being similar to typical carvings of Siskiutl (the spelling differences in Siskiutl and Sisiutl are minimal):

http://coastalcarvings.bizhosting.com/serpents.html

Typical Haida style carvings of the two headed sea serpent share similarities with this piece: http://www.sfu.ca/artgallery/VirtualTour/VT03.htm

 

[George]

You must cite your source, plagarism is illegal.

 

[Øjeblikket]

If you're refering to the Coyote soundbite then no it is not mine and I will provide that source's host as cited material, but the webpage is of a nature that may seem like an awkward reserve to some, so I will include it only if necessary.

is that what you meant George?

 

[BreathingShadow]

dude, youre weird

 

[karpsmom]

Hahah, totally weird.

 

[--]

i thought A Yahoo was a "race of (apparently) hideous deformed creatures" as documented by one Lemuel Gulliver in his Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.

you can read about Yahoos on Yahoo! here:
http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/gullivers_travels/91.html

 

[Øjeblikket]

i thought A Yahoo was a "race of (apparently) hideous deformed creatures" as documented by one Lemuel Gulliver in his Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.

you can read about Yahoos on Yahoo! here:
http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/gullivers_travels/91.html

That is an extremely odd handle you're sporting dash dash.

You may find this review of Walter Stephens's essay, Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief, interesting (or perhaps not):

http://grad.usask.ca/gateway/reviewlambert_demon lovers.htm

As the title indicates, Stephens posits that there was a ‘crisis of belief’ among some groups of Christians during this time period and even as far back as the twelfth century. Stephens believes that this crisis was initiated by the introduction of the works of Aristotle to western Europe via the Arabic scholars of the Islamic Iberian peninsula. Aristotle had taught that the supernatural did not exist and that everything which occurred in the world was the result of natural forces. Christian theologians, most notably St. Thomas Aquinas, attempted to reconcile the teachings of the Church with these rediscovered works of ‘the Philosopher’. The result was the development of natural philosophy, the pursuit of evidence in the natural world that would prove the existence of God.

[...]

In order to acquire evidence of God’s existence, theologians became increasingly interested in encountering supernatural beings or, if all attempts at that failed, other people who had encountered such creatures. The results of this quest were threefold. Exorcism became popular, culminating in the mass possessions of the 1600s. Necromancy, the art of conjuring demons, was practiced by more and more clerics.

Since there is a chapter in Stephens's book that deals with penis stealing witches, additional reading on that subject may be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_panic

 

[Alteredmindeath]

I would hate to have to sleep in the wilderness with that thing screaming like that.