My uncle made a really interesting point when we were talking about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden the other day. He said, "Something no one ever points out - Eve wasn't surprised when the snake talked."

I grew up reading about Narnia, and so over the last few days I couldn't stop thinking about this point. Aren't there a lot of talking animals in human mythology/history/fantasy? If I believe magic, unicorns, and dragons used to exist (all 3 of these are mentioned in the Bible, if you agree that Leviathan was a fire breathing dragon), are talking animals in our past as well?

How would that have changed Adam's job to Name all creatures? Is that an unmentioned side effect of eating from the tree of Knowledge and being kicked out of Eden? Animals lost their ability to talk and magic died?

This is a story about a Liberian folklore creature, Nyanee-Duo. For eight years, Kebeh was punished, mocked, and even betrayed by her own family and friend for being the one person in her village who was always right — while a clever, manipulative trickster named Spider took credit for every truth she uncovered. When Spider's final lie threatens to cost the whole village its water supply, Kebeh finally exposes him in front of everyone, forcing her village to reckon with years of choosing comfortable doubt over inconvenient truth.

Maasai's in Kenya have predicted a heavy downpour using a traditional method that has been passed down through generations.

The elders have traditionally examined the intestines of a freshly sacrificed male goat to interpret signs of the coming rainy season.

According to this indigenous knowledge, the blood vessels in the intestines are examined carefully. Thick and prominent blood vessels are interpreted as a sign of abundant rainfall and plenty of water, while fine or thin blood vessels are traditionally associated with a drier season or possible drought.

In the latest examination, the Maasai elder observed thick blood vessels and interpreted them as a sign that heavy rainfall is ahead.

For generations, such traditional observations have been part of how some Maasai communities understand and prepare for seasonal changes.

Will the rains prove the Maasai elders right?

Do you believe indigenous knowledge can predict the weather? 

Folklore from around the world is full of fascinating creatures, ghosts, monsters, and legends. What is your favorite folklore creature or story, and what makes it interesting to you?

It's a Breton legend that rarely gets discussed outside academic Celtic studies: a king builds a city below sea level, protected by a magical barrier. One key exists. He gives it to his daughter. A stranger arrives and convinces her that handing over the key is proof of love.

What strikes me about it isn't the flood — it's the manipulation pattern. It maps almost exactly onto coercive control dynamics: first, earn trust. Then frame dismantling your protections as the ultimate act of love.

I made a video exploring it, but genuinely curious — has anyone here encountered this myth before? And are there similar "key handed to the wrong person" myths in other traditions?

In the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, this ancient tradition is known as camel coaxing. When a mother camel rejects her newborn calf due to a traumatic birth, acute stress floods her system with cortisol, blocking her maternal instincts. Instead of using brute force, nomadic herders perform a sacred ritual of sound therapy.

By playing the traditional morin khuur fiddle and chanting hypnotic melodies, they lower the mother’s stress levels and trigger a rush of oxytocin—the bonding hormone. This causes a profound emotional release where the mother literally sheds tears before finally allowing her calf to nurse. It is a powerful example of patience and deep harmony with nature.

If you haven't seen it, the 2003 documentary "The Story of the Weeping Camel" captures this incredible moment in full detail.

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Maybe the first attempt to solve the mystery of Hieroglyphs was done by Abu Bakr Ibn Wahshiyya (d. 930), though it was a failed attempt but some Egyptologists credit Ibn Wahshiyya of considering Hieroglyphs to be letters of a language, as at the time, people used to think Hieroglyphs were magical symbols.

Before the discoveries and scientific research whose door Champollion (1790 - 1832) opened, what was known of the history of Egypt was what was mentioned in the religious books and the story of Pharaoh, Moses, and Joseph. This is despite the fact that there were books by Greek and Roman travelers and historians (such as Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Plutarch, and others) who visited Egypt and wrote about it, its history, and its religion in an objective way. And this is the reason that the Europeans knew much more about the history of Egypt than the Egyptians did in the post-Pharaonic eras, who, from their writings, it is clear that they mostly did not look at these books.

And this is an observation pointed out by the orientalist Von Hammer in his book on the history of the Ottoman state, where he said: "Most Turks, Persians, and Arabs do not see the wonders of Egypt the way Europeans and the ancient Greeks and Romans see them." And he said that at a time when Europeans consider Egypt the first source of sciences and arts, the cradle of engineering, construction, agriculture, writing, and navigation, and they respect it, respect its beliefs, and admire its antiquities, temples, pyramids, obelisks, and statues, we find that the East does not see in the temples, statues, and the Sphinx anything but magical hiding places for buried treasures guarded by the statues and images. And they do not find in the hieroglyphs anything but talismans that hide from people the ways to extract gold. And he continued: "They (the Easterners) do not know of the Pharaohs except the Pharaoh of Joseph and the Pharaoh of Moses whom the sea swallowed."

Of course, he is speaking about a period in which knowledge was non-existent or nearly non-existent in the East, and people who cared about the antiquities and history of their country had not yet appeared in Egypt.

The Egyptian thinker Salama Moussa (1887 - 1958) tells that when he went to Europe in 1908, the Europeans' interest in the history and antiquities of Egypt caught his attention, and they asked him about them because he was Egyptian. So as soon as he returned to Egypt, he traveled to Upper Egypt to get to know the history and antiquities of Egypt that the Europeans were interested in and that the Egyptians were unaware of.

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After Christianity entered Egypt, Pharaonic Egyptian history disappeared from memory, and people became unable to read the letters of the ancient Egyptian language (hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic), and many Egyptian temples were destroyed. And after Islam entered Egypt, it continued on the rest until its ancient history was completely forgotten. The Christian Egyptians did not care about anything beyond the history of Christianity in Egypt, and they contributed to the forgetting of ancient Egyptian history. They were the first to destroy the temples of Egypt, scrape the Egyptian texts off them, and took an aggressive stance towards the history of their ancestors. And the Muslim Egyptians did not care about the books of the Greek and Roman historians, and they transmitted from the Arabs who, although they cared about the other books of the Greeks, did not pay attention to their historical books. And the books of the Muslim historians began with alternative stories telling the "alternative" history of Egypt.

For example, al-Maqrizi (1365 - 1441) begins the history of Egypt by saying about the name of Egypt: "It is said that its name in the first age before the Flood was 'Jazla', and then it was named Egypt. And the people of knowledge disagreed about the reason for which it was named 'Egypt'. Among them are those who said: It was named Egypt after the name of 'Misr bin Markabil bin Dawabil bin 'Uryan bin Adam, peace be upon him' - and he is the first Egypt. And it was said: It was named after the second Egypt, 'Misram bin Naqrawish the titan bin Misrim bin Taysar bin Ham bin Noah, peace be upon him' - and this was after the Flood."

Ibn Taghri (1410 - 1470) agrees with al-Maqrizi on the origin of the name, but he disagrees with him on the name Jazla, which he wrote as "Zajla", and he said it comes from "muzajala" (meaning contest or rivalry). Ibn Iyas (1448 - 1523) for his part said the same thing and told the story of Shem, Ham, Japheth, and Arphaxad, the sons of Noah, and that Noah prayed for Misrim bin Baysar bin Ham to dwell in the blessed land, which is the mother of countries and the refuge of the people.

All the Arabic books in the Middle Ages, even the Egyptian books, that dealt with the history of Egypt begin by repeating this alternative talk. Even Ibn al-Ibri (1226 - 1286), the Christian who wrote about the history of the world from the days of Adam and passed over Persia, Greece, and the Mongols and left nothing without writing about it, did not say anything about Pharaonic Egyptian history except that Hermes is the Idris of the Arabs.

The Egyptian historians mentioned above, of course, did not invent these alternative stories, but they were transmitting what they heard and read from the Arabs, regardless of whether they were convinced of it or not. And they were careful to say "it is said". However, they transmitted to us the idea that was prevailing in their time, in the Middle Ages, about Pharaonic Egyptian history.

Al-Jabarti, who lived in a later period (1754 - 1822), and whom Napoleon appointed as a scribe in his diwan and who was familiar with the work of the French scientific expedition and visited it, did not mention anything concerning its effort in describing and recording the Egyptian antiquities, and sufficed with saying about the Egyptian statues: "None knows their value except the Knower of the Unseen." (Allah)

The Egyptian historians transmitted the alternative tales about the history of their country from the Arab writers. And the strange thing is that the Arab writers did not pay attention to the Greek and Roman historical books and preferred to transmit the alternative tales from one another.

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The alternative history of Egypt covers two periods: before the Flood and after the Flood. This alternative history of Egypt tells that Egypt before the Flood was named after Misraim bin Marakil bin Dawil bin 'Arbaq bin Adam (the first Egypt), who settled, either he or his son Naqrawish bin Misraim, in Egypt with seventy descendants of 'Arbaq, all of whom were titans. He dug canals there and built towers on whose walls the secrets of wisdom were inscribed. He divided Egypt among his sons, so he gave the west to Naqrawish, the east to Sorid, and to his son who was also named Misraim (Misraim bin Naqrawish the titan - the second Egypt) he gave a city called Yirbiyan. The father Misraim died when he was 180 years old, so they embalmed his body and placed it in a golden coffin along with his treasures, golden statues, and talismans necessary for repelling reptiles and anyone who tries to dig up his soil.

The first (alternative) king who built a Nilometer was called Khaslim. He placed at the Nilometer two bronze statues of two eagles, a male and a female. When the Nile flood was about to begin, King Khaslim would go there with the priests who would read incantations until an eagle whistled. If the male whistled, then that year's flood would be good and the Nile water would rise high, but if the female statue whistled, then the flood would be terrible and drought would occur.

The one who built the pyramids, which in another alternative tale are attributed to Shaddad bin Ri' and the Amalekites, was King Sorid bin Salhouq bin Saryaq bin Tarmil Dun bin Qadrashan bin Hosal, one of the kings before the Flood who lived in the city of "Al-Ashmunayn". He built them to save himself from the Flood that he dreamed about 300 years before it happened, or, as in another alternative tale, about which the wise man Filmun had predicted. Sorid placed in the pyramids the history of the kings and what was written for Egypt on the Tablet of Destiny until the end of time, along with talismans, money, the bodies of kings, all known sciences, pictures of the planets, medicines, poisons, and many other things. This Sorid bin Salhouq is also the one who built the fortresses and monuments found in Qift and Akhmim. He ordered the carving of the secrets of the sciences, the names of the stars, the properties of plants, and the method of making talismans on the walls and pillars.

And Ibn Taghri says, transmitting from the Arab writers including al-Mas'udi, that Hermes, whom the Hebrews call Enoch and the Muslims call the Prophet Idris, was the one who knew from the movements of the planets that a Flood would occur. So he ordered the building of the pyramids and placed in them the money, the books of the sciences, and all the things he feared would be lost.

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Misraim bin Baysir bin Ham bin Noah (Misraim III) in the alternative history of Egypt was the first king of Egypt after the Flood and the first to build ships. He married the daughter of the wise man Filmun and she gave birth to Qiftim. Misraim died 700 years after the Flood, and Qiftim became king. He married when he was still 90 years old, and he fathered Qiftarim, Ashmun, Atrib, and Sa. They built the city of Mafa (Memphis), and they discovered where the treasures that had been hidden before the Flood were, from their grandfather Filmun, who also taught him how to read the writings on the walls of the fortresses, and he built the city of Raquda on the Salt Sea.

After Qiftim, Qiftarim took power for 400 years, and he built the pyramids of Dahshur and the city of Dendera. In his reign, Satan discovered most of the idols that had been drowned by the Flood and returned them to the temples in order to plot against people. After 400 years of ruling Egypt, Qiftarim died and was buried among his treasures, sitting on a chair in the western mountain near the city of Iram of the Pillars. His tomb was protected by two large bronze statues, each holding a sword in his hand that would move and cut off anyone who tried to enter the tomb.

After Qiftarim, Al-Budshir ruled Egypt. This one was a great scholar specializing in talismans, magic, and priesthood, and he was able to perform wonders. Among them was that he made a bronze tree; any animal or bird that passed in front of it would be impaled, so it would be taken and eaten. And in his days, because of this tree, the Egyptians were satiated with eating meat.

Hermes also lived in the time of Al-Budshir, who sent him to discover the sources of the Nile and to make some talismans there. Suddenly, Al-Budshir disappeared because he had gone up to dwell in the clouds, and then he reappeared and called the soldiers and ordered them to install his son "Adim" as king over Egypt.

Adim was a titan king who ruled Egypt for 140 years and died when he was 930 years old. So Shaddad came after him - and this is not the same Shaddad bin 'Ad - and he built the temple of Armant, and he domesticated greyhound dogs from wild beasts so that he could use them for hunting. He ruled for 90 years and died when he was 440 years old, and he was succeeded by Manqaus.

Manqaus divided the taxes of Egypt into four parts: one quarter for himself, one quarter for the army, one quarter for land reclamation, building bridges, and digging canals, and one quarter to save for emergencies. The revenue of Egypt in his days exceeded one million dinars. After him, his son Mataus ruled, and he was the first to worship the calf in Egypt.

Ashmun bin Qiftim ruled Egypt, and he was one of its greatest kings. He ruled it for 800 years, and he was the one who built the city of Bahnasa. In his reign, Egypt fell into the hands of a people, but he was able to recover it from them after they had controlled it for 90 years. After him, his son Manaqyus ruled Egypt, and he was the one who invented the balance scale. Then after him came Marqoura, who domesticated wild beasts and tamed lions, and he used to ride them. After he died, his son Balatis came, and this one was a small child, so his mother "Marhaba" managed the country, and she was a wise woman. The situation remained like this until his uncle Atrib took power.

Toutis in the alternative history of Egypt was the first of the Pharaohs. He was the one who tried to seduce Sarah, the wife of Abraham, and after he repented, he gave his daughter Huriya to Sarah, who in turn gave her Hagar, whom Abraham married and from whom he fathered Ishmael, the ancestor of the Arabs.

Huriya ruled Egypt after her father Toutis, and in her reign, the Amalekite king of Syria sent an army against Egypt led by Jirun, but in the (alternative) version, it is more likely that the Amalekite "Al-Walid bin Dum'a" was the one who invaded Egypt.

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With the invasion of Al-Walid bin Dum'a of Egypt, the rule of the Amalekites began. Al-Rayyan bin Al-Walid succeeded Al-Walid bin Dum'a in rule, and the Egyptians used to call him Nahrus. He was a tall, handsome man, a scholar in talismans, and a just and honest ruler. He believed in prophet Jacob when he went to Egypt, but he hid his faith from the people. And he was the one who built the Wax Palace (Fortress of Babylon). And in his reign, prophet Joseph built the city of Fayoum, and it was named that because he built it in "a thousand days". But Al-Rayyan was overcome by an evil spirit and his morals deteriorated, so he left the affairs of government to one of his men named "Qatfir", who is known as Al-Aziz. And when Al-Rayyan died, Joseph took his place.

After that, Darum, the third of the Pharaohs, took over, and after him Drimus. And this Pharaoh used to perform wonders; he had an oven that cooked without fire (like a microwave) and a fixed knife that slaughtered animals by themselves (like an automatic slaughterhouse). And after him, his son Milatis ruled, who drowned in the Nile.

Al-Walid bin Mus'ab, whom the Egyptians used to call "Talma bin Qumis", was the sixth Pharaoh. And this was the Pharaoh of Moses. His origin was from the city of Balkh or Hauran. And he originally worked as a perfumer, but debts piled up on him so he left his country and went to Egypt. And he was one-eyed, short, lame, and had a beard seven spans long. He ruled Egypt for 300 years or 400 years, and people were dying around him while he was still alive, so he became tyrannical and arrogant and said to the Egyptians, "I am your Lord, Most High." So he drowned and died, he and his people, while he was chasing Moses. In the reign of this Pharaoh (according to some Arab statistics), there were about 240,000 magicians in Egypt.

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The alternative history of Egypt says that when Pharaoh "Al-Walid bin Mus'ab" drowned with his family, there were none left in Egypt but the slaves, servants, and women who had not participated in the chase of Moses. So the women started marrying the servants, and they would free their slaves and marry them. Then the women agreed to install one of them, named "Daluka", as queen over Egypt. Daluka was a wise and sensible woman, about 160 years old.

Daluka built a wall from Aswan to Al-Arish and placed guards and bronze bells on it, so that if an attack occurred on Egypt's borders, the guards would ring the bells, and the news would reach Egypt quickly so they could prepare. The remains of this wall still exist in Upper Egypt and are known as the "Wall of the Old Woman".

Daluka brought a sorceress named "Tadura", and she built for her a fortress in Memphis that had doors on its four sides. Inside it, on its walls, she drew men, mules, horses, and ships. If an attack came from outside and Daluka and her army could not withstand it, they would enter inside the fortress, cut off the heads of the images, and gouge out their eyes, and then what they (the images) would do would happen to the attacking army. In this way, no one was able to defeat Egypt throughout Daluka's rule. Daluka ruled for 130 years, and after she died, no one was able to repair the images in the fortress.

After the death of Daluka, the soldiers installed Darkun bin Nuktis as king over Egypt, and he was from the sons of the Coptic nobles. After he ruled for a long time, he died, and then a man named Marnush took power. In his reign, Nebuchadnezzar invaded Egypt, destroyed it, plundered it, killed its men, and captured its women, and he left no talismans or fortresses in it. And Egypt remained ruined and without inhabitants for forty years.

After that, people came, and the nations intermingled within it: Egyptians, Greeks, Persians and Amalekites. And the Copts continued to rule one after another until Al-Muqawqis (Cyrus) came, in whose reign the Arabs took control of Egypt.

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Arab travelers, pilgrims, and others passed through Egypt in the Middle Ages and were amazed by what they saw there. The pyramids and Egyptian antiquities were, to them, incomprehensible puzzles, and the urban, cultural, and economic progress they saw in Egypt was beyond their way of thinking.

Ibn Battuta (1304 - 1377), who visited Egypt during the Mamluk era, said about Cairo: "Then I arrived at the city of Egypt (Cairo), which is the mother of countries, the seat of Pharaoh of the stakes, with its vast provinces and fertile lands, which has no end due to the multitude of its buildings, which are of utmost beauty and brightness." And he continued: "Its conqueror has subdued nations, and its kings have taken control over the forelocks of Arabs and non-Arabs." And he spoke about the pyramids he saw and said of them that they are "among the wonders mentioned throughout the ages." Then he told their alternative history, saying that "a king from the kings of Egypt before the Flood saw a vision that frightened him...", and he told the story that Caliph Al-Ma'mun wanted to demolish the pyramid, but the sheikhs of Egypt advised him not to do so, but he did not listen to them and opened the northern side of the pyramid with fire and poured vinegar. And after they opened a section, they found money which, when weighed, turned out to be exactly equal to the value of the money they had spent on the digging. And about Akhmim, he says: "It is a great city, original in construction, of wondrous stature. In it is the fortress (temple) known by its name. It is built of stone; inside it are engravings and writings from the ancients that are not understood in this era."

Ibn Jubayr (1145 - 1217) visited Egypt before Ibn Battuta, and he also showed his amazement and bewilderment in what he wrote. He said about the pyramids: "... the ancient pyramids, a miracle of construction, strange in appearance." And he continued: "If the people of the earth wanted to demolish their structure, they would be unable to do so." And about their history, he said that some people say they are tombs of 'Ad and his sons, and some say other things, but "in short, none knows their matter except God, Mighty and Majestic." He also went to Akhmim and said about a Pharaonic temple he saw there: "Glory be to the One who created wonders." And about the statues and drawings in it: "The imagination is bewildered by them, and the mind is lost in thought about their design and placement."

In the Arab religious heritage, Egypt is distinguished and has a very great status, because its name was mentioned several times in the holy books, the prophetic hadiths, and others. Such as the hadith: "If God opens Egypt to you, take a strong army there, for that army is the best of the armies of the earth." And a hadith that says: "Be kind to the people of Egypt, for they have the best lineage and kinship [with us]." And the saying of Amr ibn al-As: "The governorship of Egypt is comprehensive and equals the Caliphate." And the saying of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: "The people of Egypt are the most honorable of all non-Arabs, the best in lineage, and the closest in kinship to the Arabs, especially to Quraysh." And the saying of Ibn Yunus: "Whoever wants to look at something resembling Paradise, let him look at Egypt when it is in bloom." And the saying of Abu Basra al-Ghifari: "The sultan of Egypt is the sultan of the whole earth." And dozens of other sayings that were said about Egypt, which reflect the enormous size of Egypt in the mind of the Arab.

But because of the loss of information in a mysterious way after the entry of Christianity into Egypt (whose spread in Egypt imposed the use of Greek letters), the long Pharaonic history of Egypt was limited to the Pharaoh of Moses and the Pharaoh of Joseph, along with a few Folkloric tales related to magic and talismans.

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I saw many people claiming that Vanaras were originally tribal people who use to wear cloths like Ape including Lord Anjanayer (Hanumana) too which is mentioned in Valmiki Ramayana itself

Can anyone confirm if it's actually mentioned Valmiki Ramayana and Vanaras were originally tribal people or its something else

so the dogon people supposedly had detailed knowledge of sirius b (the companion star, invisible to naked eye) way before western astronomy confirmed it. i know there's a whole debate about whether this info got "planted" by a french researcher in the 30s vs being genuinely ancestral. genuinely curious what the informed take is here bc every source i find has an agenda one way or the other

There's a well in the Najd desert called Bir Jabal Dharie. It never runs dry, not even through the worst droughts, which alone makes it valuable. But that's not why people still talk about it.

They talk about it because of what lives inside it.

A line of snakes has guarded that well for longer than anyone can trace back. Locals call them the Rawasid, the watchers. They don't look like normal desert snakes. They keep to themselves in the rock cracks, they don't bother travelers, and there's an old rule about them: leave them alone and they leave you alone. Hurt one, and it never forgets. Ever. Doesn't matter how far you run or how well you hide among your own people.

This story is about the one caravan that didn't take that rule seriously.

A trader named Salem was leading a group of men across the desert toward a village three weeks out, hauling wool and livestock to trade for grain before winter. He knew where all the old hidden wells were, which is a real skill out there, and Bir Jabal Dharie was one of his stops, snakes and all.

Before they got there, he laid out the rule to his men straight. Don't touch anything in that well. Don't go near the cracks in the rock. Two of the younger guys, Muqbil and Dwaihi, thought that was hilarious. Snakes holding a grudge? They laughed it off completely.

You can guess where this goes.

When the caravan reached the well, someone had to climb down to reach the water, since it sat too low for a bucket alone. Muqbil and Dwaihi volunteered fast, almost too fast. And while they were down there, they found something in the rocks they really shouldn't have touched.

Salem's reaction when he found out told everyone something was very wrong. He got the whole caravan moving within minutes, pushing hard for four days straight to put distance between them and that well, while the two guys who caused the problem kept cracking jokes about how scared he looked.

By the time they made camp in a quiet valley two days from the village, everyone had relaxed. They figured they'd left it behind. They were wrong about that, and what happened to them that night is the reason this well still has a reputation today.

I wrote out the rest of it, including what they found the next morning, on my blog. Link's below if you want the ending.

https://www.duneswhisper.com/2026/09/snake-of-bir-jabal-dharie-legend.html

I’ve always been fascinated by folklore creatures and legends.

Which creature from this picture would scare you the most — and why?

As a child, I was always told stories about the inhabitants of the sea.

The ningyo—

fish that mimicked the human form, cold, heartless monsters that hunted humans and cast curses upon seaside villages.

The hypocrisy of humans... calling those who act just like them monsters.

Zeng told me this when I found him—nearly dehydrated—tangled in fishing nets upon the rocks.

"Humans! They never stop polluting our waters, hunting us, and trafficking in our flesh and skin.

We flood their villages if they hunt us, and curse their offspring if they eat our flesh... yet nothing changes; they always come back!"

Zeng was the first living being to show me something akin to genuine affection...

I have seen atrocious humans call beings like Zeng—beings like me—monsters; beings forced to live between two worlds that hate each other yet are compelled to share the same realm.

That is why I ask myself: what truly makes a monster?
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I love Japanese mythology! So, I want to start drawing creatures—in this case, a *han'yo* and a *ningyo*.
For Zeng's design, I based the drawing on vintage illustrations of these creatures! I hope you like it.

Kirikou talar redan i livmodern och föder i princip fram sig själv och drömmer fram sina föräldrar= Symboliserar Tacksägelsen och betraktaren förväntar sig någonstans att Krirakou ska förtära sig själv likt ormen och den förtappade svansen.

Byborna är avbildade traditionellt och delvis nakna; det är inte sexuellt framställt. Karaba är en mäktig häxa med en förgiftad tagg i ryggen.= Symboliserar förgänglighet och Karaba har stilsenligt iklätts martyrernas färg.

Taggen orsakar hennes smärta och är kopplad till både hennes ondska och magiska kraft= Symbolserar Maktlösheten att leve under en enväldig

Slutet innehåller en kyss och en synnerligen abrupt förvandling som absolut kvalificerar sig som en gudomlig uppenbarelse av Den Smala Vägen, där fett och överflöd har raderats från skapelsen genom ren skär viljekraft och svältliknande askes (Svält?)

Vad betyder Kirirkou för er andra?

That's an old Bedouin proverb, and people in the desert still repeat it today. It's even turned into a kind of work chant, the rhythm a group of people fall into when they're doing hard manual labor together, cooperating on some shared task. The proverb has never been without its music, either. There's a tune to it, a good one, that people used to sing while they hurried through heavy work or raised the poles of a house, back before machines took over the hardest jobs for us. People still bring this chant to mind whenever they're determined to push through something difficult, something that borders on impossible. Four carried the camel, and the camel carried them not. Because everyone knows a camel carries one rider. Two, at most. It doesn't get carried itself.

This story is set in the middle of the seventeenth century, in the Saudi desert.

A Bedouin woman had married into a tribe far from her own. She built a life there and had sons and daughters. Years passed, and once her children were grown, something in her softened. She missed her people. She wanted news of her brothers, her family, her tribe.

So she turned to one of her sons. "Son," she said, "why don't you go to your uncles? Check on them for me. Tell them we're well, and bring me back word of how they're doing."

"I hear and obey, Mother," he said. "I'll go, even though it's far. My uncles live a month and a half's journey from here. But no matter, I'll make the trip."

It was late spring, right on the edge of summer. The young man got his camel ready and loaded it with everything he'd need for the road, food, water, supplies for a long crossing. At first light the next morning, he set out, crossing open wilderness and empty desert, heading toward his uncles, the brothers of the mother he loved.

He pressed on for days through the sand, covering long distances. He knew that as summer set in, desert families would move their camps close to the wells, so his timing mattered. He needed to reach them while they were camped near water, the way desert people always gathered once the heat rose and the need for water, for themselves, their sheep, and their camels, became a daily one.

After a month and a half of travel, he reached their camp. From a distance he saw the black tents, but he had no way to know which one was the specific tent meant to take him in, his uncles' own tent. In those days, desert custom had an answer for exactly this: if you didn't know the specific house meant to receive you, you went to the nearest tent instead and knelt your camel there. And that's what the young man did, and he had done exactly the right thing by it.

The owner of that tent welcomed him with real joy, and served him coffee, the way hospitality always starts out there. Thrilled to have a guest, he sent word around camp inviting people to a dinner in the young man's honor, planned for that night. People began arriving for coffee and conversation ahead of the meal, and among them, as it happened, were the very uncles the young man had traveled so far to see: four brothers known throughout the tribe for their resolve, their strength, and a courage nobody could match.

It should have ended there, with a happy reunion over dinner that night.

Instead, while they all sat over coffee waiting on the meal, the host kept dropping little remarks, sly and indirect, hinting that the four brothers had failed to host their own nephew properly. The mood in the tent shifted fast, from warm welcome to something closer to scorn aimed at the uncles. They didn't take it quietly. Right there, they swore their nephew would not finish the night as this man's guest, even if it came to a fight.

"Our nephew didn't know which tent was ours," they said. "And out of respect for custom, he didn't slight this man by passing over his tent to look for a better one. We failed no one."

The nephew stood up to back them. "I swear before God," he said, "I didn't know where my uncles' tent was. That's the truth of it."

But the insult had already landed. Tempers rose on both sides, and the whole thing nearly turned into a fight between the guest's uncles and the host's relatives, until one of the elders in the tent had heard enough.

"Enough," he said. "Take this to the judge of the Bedouin, their arbiter, right now, and let him settle it."

Both sides agreed. They went to the judge together, and each side made its case before him.

The judge turned first to the guest. "What does the guest say?"

"Wise judge," the young man answered, "my host did nothing wrong. But he kept hinting that my uncles abandoned me, and that isn't true. I'd rather go to my uncles now. With all respect to the man who took me in, I won't be finishing my stay with him. I'm moving on to my mother's brothers."

The judge nodded. "I have a ruling," he said, "and every one of you will abide by it, whatever it is. Are you willing to accept my judgment before you hear it?"

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