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Possum Symbolism

July 27th, 2024

Exploring the realm of possum symbolism unveils a complex tapestry of meanings and insights that have captivated human interest for generations. Often misunderstood, the possum holds profound spiritual significance and symbolic value across various cultures. This nocturnal marsupial, emblematic of survival and adaptability, serves as a powerful symbol in the spiritual and symbolic world. Its unique behaviors and attributes offer rich symbolism, from the act of playing dead as a means of self-...

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Review: Bold and Brash

May 16th, 2024

Review by Jason Gorber.There will be plenty of hyperbole flung about in celebration of this film with the joy and abandon of an ape playfully lobbing his poop at an appreciative audience.Yet like the scatological simian show at your local zoo, there may be those that fixate on the repellent parts of the display, annoyed perhaps by the fact, they may claim, that this latest Apes film feels like a previously enjoyed meal - something familiar, sure, but no longer sustaining after passing through...

Words of a feather

February 12th, 2024

My query: In languages other than English, is there any euphemistic meaningful of the words for birds, and in particular the rooster?Copilot response: Certainly! The use of euphemistic and taboo terms varies across languages, and some non-English languages indeed have parallels to the English situation. Let's explore this further: 1. **German**: - In German, the word for **rooster** is **"Hahn"**. While it doesn't directly carry a secondary taboo meaning like "cock" in English, it's wor...

Aesop - the fable of The Ass and His Purchaser

December 26th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Ass and His Purchaser (thing) See all of The Ass and His Purchaser, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Aesop Wed Mar 01 2000 at 18:34:01 Aesop's Fables A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try out the animal before he bought him. He took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which the new animal left all the others and at once joined the one that was ...

Lion - Jupiter - Elephant

December 24th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant (thing) See all of The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Aesop Wed Mar 01 2000 at 14:27:20 Aesop's Fables THE LION wearied Jupiter with his frequent complaints. "It is true, O Jupiter!" he said, "that I am gigantic in strength, handsome in shape, and powerful in attack. I have jaws well provided with teeth, and feet furnished with claws, and I lord it ov...

Joe Biden Donkey - Joe Burro Donkey - Tiger King - Joe Exotic

November 17th, 2023

Billy Cannon -> Joe Burrow, Burro = Donkey = Democrat, tigers -> TIGERS , Boxing: Jack Dempsey, Charlottes Web = Animal Farm Reaction, Giving Tree, Witcher 3: Understanding Context, Burro Part 2: Biden & Trump, Heisman Decoding, Birdwatching Spycraft James Bond, Green Hornet Bruce Lee, Burro Part 3: Joe Burrow & Joe Exotic, El Chapo & SnatchJoe Burrow is the biggest name in sports right now. What might he be coordinating as a comm?Record breaking news is always worth a dig! 09/07/...

Super Chicken

November 6th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Super Chicken (person) See all of Super Chicken, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Gritchka Fri Feb 02 2001 at 17:01:08 Mild-mannered Henry Cabot Henhaus III is the world's richest chicken and an amateur scientist to boot. When he drinks the Secret Sauce he invented he turns into Superchicken. With his faithful butler Fred he goes on around solving mysteries. The catchphrase is "You knew the job was dangerous when you too...

Struwwelpeter

October 24th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Struwwelpeter (thing) by e2reneta Thu Jun 08 2000 at 16:44:59 AKA Struwwelpeter: oder lustige Geschichten und drollige bilder fur Kinder von 3-6 Jahren.Heinrich Hoffman's popular and influential book of cautionary tales about children who misbehave. Translated in English as Slovenly Peter or Shockheaded Peter, the book features charming pictures of children meeting gruesome ends as they play with matches, torture animals, or sho...

Centauridae - Half-Women Half-Horses of Greek Mythology

October 9th, 2023

 Search  GreekReporter.comAncient GreeceCentauridae, the Half-Women Half-Horses of Greek Mythology Centauridae, the Half-Women Half-Horses of Greek Mythology By Patricia Claus October 8, 2023  Facebook  Centauridae, creatures from Greek mythology that were a combination of females and horses, are depicted in this Roman-era mosaic in Tunisia, showing the goddess Aphrodite, or Venus, in the middle. The mosaic was created in the secon...

History of Mermaids and Their Origins in Ancient Greek Sirens

September 18th, 2023

 Search  GreekReporter.comAncient GreeceHistory of Mermaids and Their Origins in Ancient Greek Sirens History of Mermaids and Their Origins in Ancient Greek Sirens By Anna Wichmann September 13, 2023  Facebook  Odysseus and the Sirens, eponymous vase of the Siren Painter, c. 480–470 BC (British Museum). Credit: Jastrow / Public Domain Mermaids, folkloric creatures with the head and upper body of a woman and lower body of a fish, ap...

Octopussy

June 13th, 2023

June 10, 1983 As I’ve demonstrated a few times in the past, I’m not a Bond guy. So believe it or not OCTOPUSSY is a first time viewing for me. I come to it with incomplete context, zero nostalgia, but also no preconceived notions of what a Bond movie or actor needs to be like. I can view it casually as-is and report that it’s pleasingly silly and mildly amusing. Some of its qualities that some would consider shortcomings barely need to be stated. Roger Moore (THE CANNONBALL RUN) as Jame...

Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five ‹ Literary Hub

February 19th, 2023

Clip source: Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five ‹ Literary Hub Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five Isabel Waidner Recommends Megan Milks, Jess Arndt, Kurt Vonnegut, and MoreBy Isabel Waidner February 13, 2023 My novel, Sterling Karat Gold, performs the real-life effects of governmental control and state violence on marginalized people—and it does so by recruiting time travel and fleets of UFOs into it...

The Ox

February 2nd, 2023

by SD Master The Ox, being the first and most favored of God’s ear, was asked by Man to supplicate on their behalf, a question that Man needed to know. "Pray, ask God, on our behalf, how often we as Man, should eat". The Ox, worthy of entreaty, and knowing of God’s respect for its requests, was pulled straight up and stood before God to repeat the question of Man. "Tell Man, that he should eat once every three days", spoke God. The Ox, well meaning, though confused with letters...

My Cat and Odysseus Dog

January 22nd, 2023

Open in appSign In Published inIn Medias ResThe note you're looking for was deletedMark BuchanJun 21, 2022· 10 min read · The Truth About My Cat and Odysseus’ Dog Ulysses and Argus, from Alfred Church’s "The Odyssey for Boys and Girls" (source)I have an aging cat called Thisbe. Still a street cat at heart, she is very affectionate toward me, but tends to be wary of other humans, and gets nervous when more than one is around her. I’m about to travel to Europe for a few weeks without her, an...

What 'alien' languages can teach us about real ones - Phys.org

January 21st, 2023

Credit: Cognition (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.10.014You can learn a lot about an animal by how it communicates. Birds tweet melodies to attract mates and defend their territory. Dogs befriend each other with wagging tails and smelly pheromones. Even plants communicate by diffusing chemicals through the soil, networking with the root systems of the flora around them.For Gareth Roberts, studying linguistics is a way to learn more about humans. "I've alwa...

Novels Told From the Perspective of Animal Protagonists

September 10th, 2022

Long before time was measured in the way we mark it now, humans have been telling stories about the animals around them. Animals have been our predators, our prey, and our companions—and yet, modern life has pulled many of us so far from the natural world that it’s become easy to think of ourselves as separate from, and sometimes even superior to, the rest of the animal kingdom. In my collection of short stories, What We Fed to the Manticore, I wanted to reduce the emotional distance between ...

The tale of the domesticated horse

May 5th, 2022

They say dogs are man’s best friend, but horses could also claim that title. Horses gave us a way to transport people and goods — literal horsepower. They changed warfare: drawing chariots, carrying the cavalry. They’ve inspired artists from Stone Age cave painters to the makers of "My Little Pony." Their role in industry may have waned in favor of machines, but they still maintain a place in sport, in leisure and in our collective hearts. Horses have been intertwined with human culture...

Facts About Rabbits

April 10th, 2022

Close ANIMALS14 Fascinating Facts About RabbitsBy Michele DebczakSep 18, 2018 | Updated: Apr 4, 2019, 2:00 PM EDTiStock.com/mammuth / iStock.com/mammuthRabbits are much more than the cute, carrot-munching creatures pop culture makes them out to be. They can dig sophisticated tunnels, grow to weigh more than 20 pounds, and even eat their own poop. Here are some more facts worth knowing about the beloved mammals.1. They can't live off carrots.Rabbit eating carrots. /...

Three Little Wolves (thing) by sid - Everything2.com

March 5th, 2022

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Three Little Wolves (thing) See all of Three Little Wolves, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by sid Wed Jul 17 2002 at 6:11:15 Disney animated short made in 1936. Part of the Silly Symphony series, it continued with the Big Bad Wolf and Three Little Pigs characters that had already been used twice before (1933 and 1934). It also continued the trademark Disney Technicolor animation (from 1929 to 1932 the shorts were only blac...

Shadhavar | Unicorn Wiki | Fandom

February 18th, 2022

Unicorn Wiki Shadhavar Edit Oryx canens Habitat Asia Minor Primary source Al-Qazwini, Jabir ibn Hayyan More Shādhavār (شادهوار) or āras (آرس) is a unicorn found in the writings of Muslim scholars such as al-Qazwini or al-Damiri. According to al-Qazwini it lives in the furthest regions of Rûm (Rome), which is the name A...

What the Mouse Knows - by Simon Sarris

January 15th, 2022

What the Mouse KnowsConsider the little mouse, how sage an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.— Titus Maccius PlautusIt is not down in any map; true places never are.— Ishmael, Moby DickI am fond of the mouse. Everywhere beset by larger powers, he succeeds with a wisdom of his own. He prospers by careful study of the world, and his profit is the knowledge overlooked by the bigger creatures. Humans may have built the house, but it is the mouse who knows all its passage...

Soknopaiou Nesos – The Crocodile Cult Temple - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

January 11th, 2022

Considering the role of El-Fayyum Oasis,what intertextuality is there to explore between the crocodile cult, the crocodile cult temple, and the rest of the Soknapaiou Nesos mythology, in Paulo Cuehlo's The Alchemist ? -zas Jan 2022 Soknopaiou Nesos – The Crocodile Cult Temple - HeritageDaily - Archaeology NewsSourceURL: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/01/soknopaiou-nesos-the-crocodile-cult-temple/142466 Soknopaiou Nesos – The Crocodile Cult TempleSoknopaiou Nesos, also called Dimeh es-S...

A Rare Encounter with the Elusive Giant Phantom Jellyfish Captures Its 33-Foot Billowing Limbs | Colossal

December 17th, 2021

A Rare Encounter with the Elusive Giant Phantom Jellyfish Captures Its 33-Foot Billowing Limbs | Colossal Photography ScienceA Rare Encounter with the Elusive Giant Phantom Jellyfish Captures Its 33-Foot Billowing LimbsDecember 7, 2021Grace EbertBack in August, we shared news of a previously undiscovered jellyfish so vibrant that its brilliant red body was a stark contrast to its deepwater environment. Now thanks to researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, we...

New study proves unexpected social ability in cats - Science & Health - Haaretz.com

November 30th, 2021

Up Next Three Years Late, Israelis Finally Hear the Truth About Trump A housecat speaking with his eyes and mouth. Ailurophiles have always known they do this. Credit: Seattle Cat Photo / Shutterstock New Study Proves Unsuspected...

The Human Chameleon - Zelig, Nietzsche and the Banality of Evil

November 4th, 2021

Clip source: The Human Chameleon: < The Human Chameleon: Zelig, Nietzsche and the Banality of EvilAbstractThis article revisits the case of Woody Allen’s mockumentary Zelig (1983) via Friedrich Nietzsche’s diagnostic of mimicry in The Gay Science. It argues that the case of the "human chameleon" remains contemporary for both philosophical and political reasons. On the philosophical side, I argue that the case of Zelig challenges an autonomous conception of the subject based on rational self...