Jun 18, 2008 23:13
"[The unicorn] did not attain his beauty all at once. As soon as we begin to inquire how he looked to the imagination of the Ages of Faith we are reminded that his ancestry is mixed, that he descends from the horse and the ass on the side of the Greeks and from the goat on that of Physiologus. The results of this miscegenation were a series of hybrid variations as perplexing as those governed by Mendelian law."
The Lore of the Unicorn. Odell Shepherd. Read it, if you want to learn about a one-horned goat with purer intentions than Goodfellow.
[OOC: Expressing his love of learning today, particularly of mythology insofar as I can manage it at my current cognitive levels (which aren't that good, not to mention some of my best references are stuck in boxes).]
curse,
mythology and folklore are my bffs,
teachers assistant,
walking encyclopedia,
philias and phobias curse