CryptoZoology - Page 3

September 19, 2008, 2:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Argor251

A fan of the the Iliad, good man

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Some people see anatomically correct lifelike t-rex heads on some greek vases used as the base for a mythical creature. Such as the depiction of "the monster of Troy" in this vase...

Well I am a Greek and we study Iliad as a lesson at school but this is the first time i see that vase!
Btw in greek mythology Hercules had fought against Hydra a dinosaur-like creature that was living in the sea that was like Nessie but the differences were that Hydra was an angry and bad creature but Nessie is a creature that is afraid of humans.

September 19, 2008, 5:25 PM

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Originally Posted by zitanier

Well I am a Greek and we study Iliad as a lesson at school but this is the first time i see that vase!
Btw in greek mythology Hercules had fought against Hydra a dinosaur-like creature that was living in the sea that was like Nessie but the differences were that Hydra was an angry and bad creature but Nessie is a creature that is afraid of humans.

The vase is known as the Hesione Vase or the "Monster of Troy" vase. It depicts Heracles rescuing Hesione from the "Monster of Troy", a sea monster of some kind. It's dated to around 550 BC. It's accepted widely that this vase is evidence that the ancients dug up fossils too. Most people think the skull depicted is that of a fossilised extinct giant giraffe-like creature. But some hold that it could be a dinosaur skull.

October 1, 2008, 3:11 PM

People saw things like unicorns, Nessie, Big Foot. The point of crytozoology is to find out wether those people are lieing or are they telling the truth. During the Middle Ages it was highly believed that Unicorns, Faeries and Dragons were real. Many old painting have these creatures in them.
Humans are not almighty. They don't know everything, and this is a big world. There must be some animals that we haven't seen before.

Mythical creatures have played a role in human life for centuries. Constellations are named after them, including Pegasus, Hydra, Phoenix, and the Centaur. They function as powerful symbols in both religious and secular contexts, and their images have appeared on Western and Asian currencies since antiquity.
Mythical creatures appear in songs, in stories, in medicine, and as the subjects of films all over the world. Our ancestors would frequently find oversized or oddly shaped that they could not connect to any known creature, human or animal. Later, travelers brought home animal remains that could not be identified. This led to the creation of legends and mythologies involving misterious beasts. An enormous mammoth bone dating to the Pleistocene era would be transformed into the bone of a giant. The most modern approach to dealing with such inexpliable finds is cryptozoology. Many reaserchers think mysterious beasts should e studied under the banner of cryptozoology rather than being dismissed as merely legendary, mythical creatures.

When we talk about Nessie, we are speaking about tge unchallenged queen of the cryptids. She has sparked myth and legend in the Scottish Highlands for over 1500 years. In the last century, she became famous well beyond the shore of Loch Ness, and scores of people set off in search of her. If there were such a thing as a list of the most sought-after creatures of cryptozoology, Nessie, the monster thought to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland, would have to be at the top. Nessie is actually described as looking like a plesiosaur, a marine reptile thought to have been extinct in the Mesozoic era...

People who claim to have seen a mythical creature couldv'e actually mixed it up th an animal already known. This often happens when a person is stressed or sceared. They see things.

Cryptozoology is not pointless. Its infomation on mythical creatures is based on facts collected from the past.
So no, Cryptozoology is not shit.