11-16-2021, 07:20 PM
(11-16-2021, 11:37 AM)727Sky Wrote:
That was interesting, and gave me some information I didn't have before. Thanks!
Regarding the Piasa Bird carving or painting on the cliff at Alton, Illinois, that carving does not exist any more, and all we have is the description of it from the French. I've always thought it was more likely to be a Giant Horned Snake than a Thunderbird. I've never heard of a Thunderbird legend where the Thunderbirds have horns, but I have seen Mississippian depictions on shell gorgets of horned snakes with wings... and Cahokia was a Mississippian urban center. Such depictions are often thought of as "dragons" of an American variety because of the combination of horns and wings on a serpentine body, similar to some Asian dragon descriptions.
The Aztec Quetzalcoatl or Mayan Kukulkan is probably the most famous version of it.
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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.’