(11-15-2021, 04:10 AM)ABNARTY Wrote: You had me at Monster Quest
I trust you saw what you saw. There have been lots of very large birds which have coexisted with humans over the millennia.
Ancient humans drew, painted, or carved what they saw.
Oh, I saw it alright. I can't say just what it was, other than big, because I've not found any other descriptions of it other than the Thunderbird - but the fact remains that it could have just been some kind of mutant golden eagle. So, I can't say that it WAS a Thunderbird, only that that is the closest description I've found of it so far.
Here is a picture of the two-headed Thunderbird painted on the Painted Rock on Paint Lick Mountain, just a few miles south of here:
Other pictures there include a couple of turtles, some people, a deer, a sunburst symbol, and something that I can't tell what it is, either a frontal view of a truly proud man, or an overhead view of some kind of lizard... a group of Cherokees used to make a pilgrimage to that rock every summer, up to 1767. That was the last trip they made there, about the time of the Cherokee-Shawnee war that culminated in a Shawnee victory on War Ridge.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’