Unicorn origin.......maybe?

[Squatchit]

Whilst exploring mammals of Asia, I came across this interesting snippet which I thought I'd share.

Originally Posted by Wiki

The Hebrew word re’em may refer to the Arabian Oryx, although this word could also refer to the extinct Aurochs, or some other type of horned mammal. In the King James Version of the Bible the word “re’em” is translated as “unicorn", and the legend of the Unicorn may have originated in part from the Arabian Oryx which can appear to have only one horn when seen in profile.

Arabian Oryx

Full article if anyone is interested...

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

Hmmmm, I personally think that most of those animals are only based on constelations, and or fossils (dinosaurs being dragons, etc)

[norseman]

I wondered if the legend came from a garbled description of the rhino centuries ago.

Originally Posted by norseman

I wondered if the legend came from a garbled description of the rhino centuries ago.

Have you seen the reditions of camels, that were just based on description? LOL they look like mutant cattle..

[norseman]

Was there not a joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee ?

Only quotes about the unicorn:

"The unicorn has but one horn in the middle of its forehead. It is the only animal that ventures to attack the elephant; and so sharp is the nail of its foot, that with one blew it can rip the belly of that beast. Hunters can catch the unicorn only by placing a young virgin in its haunts. No sooner does he see the damsel, than he runs towards her, and lies down at her feet, and so suffers himself to be captured by the hunters. The unicorn represents Jesus Christ, who took on Him our nature in the virgin's womb, was betrayed to the Jews, and delivered into the hands of Pontius Pilate. Its one horn signifies the Gospel of Truth. ...''
-Le Bestiaire Divin de Guillaume, Clerc de Normandic (13th century).

Biblical
Deuteronomy 33:17 - His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Psalms 22:21 - Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Isaiah 34:7 - And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Numbers 23:22 - God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

Numbers 24:8 - God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

Job 39:9 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

Job 39:10 - Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Psalms 29:6 - He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Psalms 92:10 - But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Daniel 8:5 - And as I was considering, behold, a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

http://kuriakon.kuriakon00.com/unicorn_fable.html

[Squatchit]

While I was watching Frozen Planet yesterday, these creatures were shown. They are narwhals. I immediately thought of sea unicorns...only to hear Mr Attenborough say pretty much the same thing a few seconds later.

[norseman]

Polar Bears tonight, Squatch

[Squatchit]

More Polar Bears....weeeeeeeeeeee!