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   From: dogpatch@caribbeancity.net   
      
   "luanne" <222lufable222@gmail.com> wrote in message   
   news:549ee256-66b3-4e5f-9f5b-5b5c2d50d663@n2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com...   
   > Do you think that computers and cartoons have caused the loss of the   
   > old significant anthropomorphic characters? I can sort of imagine that   
   > Phoenix was once a flamingo or a Unicorn begun as a rhino or   
   > Nahwal..but the mermaid that was said to have been a manatee..was also   
   > a 'Selki' in old European myth, shows how neatly any sea mammal will   
   > fit the story line that could have distinct characteristics and   
   > meaning in a particular place of origin.   
   >   
   > All those many hundreds of years of story telling to story listeners   
   > had no pictures and "we went to sea and we encountered" what ever   
   > beast it was, may have been "I am bringing back to you now a tale of   
   > horrid animals with terrible histories from a place that rid itself   
   > of.." etc.   
   >   
   > I love animals stories but has the need for cute furry and   
   > terrifyingly pretty obscured some really decent iconography and   
   > political references to cultural history geographical trade &   
   > religion?   
   >   
   > Perhaps I'm thinking that one day our great grandchildren will say   
   > something like.. "And Pikachu came from a country far far away and   
   > blushed when someone upset his friends! "   
   >   
   > I thought about that when I was re-reading Aesops fables.   
      
      
   Make the right choice to spend your wasted off time by engaging in   
   worthwhile events, and drop the horseshit like that above.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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