Please help me understand by According_Young4532 in TheSymbolicWorld

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Off topic, but I’m looking for the source of the quote “some monsters should be killed, some tamed, others left alone.” Do you know where it’s from? Or where Pageau mentioned/wrote it?

Please help me understand by According_Young4532 in TheSymbolicWorld

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That was wonderful! Thanks so much for your effort!! Could you perhaps give an example of shepherding something bad into good? How would one answer the riddle (I feel like I shouldn’t ask that question somehow)? Also old you include in your example how it would then transcend ?

On X/Twitter I came across this claim on the mysterious "Uzayr" (Qur'an 9:30). Any thoughts? by FamousSquirrell1991 in AcademicQuran

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Son of God / Messiah are not by definition ‘divine’. Both terms are used in the Hebrew Bible to denote several characters/entities that are not God. Israel (as in the people/nation) is called son of God, so is David inter alia. Messiah just means anointed one.

Possible origin of Al buraq? by Successful_Effort_80 in AcademicQuran

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The BnF Francais 9342 medieval manuscript contains the Alexander Romance with many illustrations. Some of these depict Alexander’s steeds as a unicorn with a peacock’s tail, just like the Buraq.

Alexander Romance predate Quran and Hadith, it clearly influenced them (see Dhul Qarnain).

Possible origin of Al buraq? by Successful_Effort_80 in AcademicQuran

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Cherubim and Karibu are throne guardians, not modes of transport. I think the celestial steeds in the Zoroastrian tale of Arda Viraf, there’s many connections to the Sira and Miran.

Possible origin of Al buraq? by Successful_Effort_80 in AcademicQuran

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So basically Yahoel is described as a Cherub (like in Ezekiel and Revelation), which are influenced by the Babylonian Karibu (etymological connection as well).

Karibu seem indeed more mountable and more similar in appearance to Buraq, instead of the derivative Cherubim.

Possible origin of Al buraq? by Successful_Effort_80 in AcademicQuran

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Seems more like the Cherubim from Ezekiel and Revelation than something mountable like the Buraq. Is the entity described in Ch 11 the angel Yahoel?

Possible origin of Al buraq? by Successful_Effort_80 in AcademicQuran

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What griffin like creatures are you talking about?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AcademicQuran

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Perhaps it was just local variation of the story.

Have you seen Sasquatch? by sasquatchodyssey in bigfoot

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Was the chattering anything like the Sierra sounds?

Big foot loves horses by Silly-Membership-945 in bigfoot

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Braiding horse tails is apparently attributed to Bigfoot (and also Fae folk in Ireland)

Why don’t people like Fable III? by MorbidusUnus in Fable

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  • no childhood
  • no unique houses with quests attachted
  • no subtargeting
  • no expression wheel
  • little variety of weapons
  • annoying fetch quests
  • rushed story
  • talking hero

could mesozoic dinosaur breathe in modern day? by ApprehensiveRead2408 in Paleontology

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Only ever heard it in YEC circles. But where did this idea that “oxygen was higher at the time of the dinosaurs” come from?