Riding the Seas: Hippocampus, Kelpies, and more other monstrous horses

There are so many interesting myths from around the globe and through the era it refers to the mythical beings which are the same with the horses. 

Shape-shifting and the sacrifices to the water spirits

The Kelpies in Scotland are the shape-shifting water spirits which dwells in pools and lakes. Douglas Harper, the historian defined Kelpies as the demons appearing particularly in the forms of horses. However, there are some legends that state that it may also be assumed in human form.

The Kelpies are being considered as the most usual water spirits in the Scottish folklore history of the world and this can dwell both on the land and in the water. They usually appeared in legends as the beautiful and the strong black horses which dwell in the hidden pools of streams and rivers in Scotland.

The more vicious horse being

The tongie or the tangie is one more shape-shifting spirits from Shetland Isles and the Orkney. It is the sea spirit emerging in the shape of the horse or as the merman. The spirit can appear also as the old man. This creature is believed to be enclosed with seaweed and this supposedly loves to terrorize the loner travelers.

But, as soon as these horses smell water, then, it is the ending part of a rider. The skin of the horse will then be adhesive and this horse creature may immediately take the rider into the profoundest part of the pool and will drown him. The moment the victim has been drowns this each-uisge will rip off the corpse separately and will devour it, and leaving only his liver to float into the surface. And for this cause, the people in the Highlands were usually wary of loner strangers and animals they encountered close by the edge of the water.

On this Isle of Lewis, the Croc-na-Beist, which means the “hillock of a monster”, is the knoll where the each-uisge has been thought to have been killed by the sibling of the woman it attempted to seduce while it is in the form of a human.

Apart from human beings, this malevolent water creature also fed on with sheep and cattle. The use of those animals might also help somebody to lure, kill or even just capture the each-uisge. A very good aroma of roasted meat attracts this each-uisge in the McKay’s story from the “More West Highland Tale”.

Hippocampus and some other Ancient Horses

This hippocampus, which means the “horse monster” in the Greek term is the mythical being in the in the Phoenician and Greek mythology. In English, this being has been named as the “sea-horse”. This being had also been adopted by the Etruscan mythology and this is being described as owning the upper body of the horse and then, the lower body of the fish.

The horses had been present ever since the start of human records and they had also entered the mythology and the legends of the globe in a diversity of forms – sometimes scary and sometimes sweet.

Medieval ring located in the forest of Robin Hood may net a tiny fortune

In the year 2016, an amateur fortune hunter with the metal detector twisted up the medieval gold ring which has been set with the sapphire stone in the Sherwood Forest—irk of the legendary Robin Hood. The experts have studied the ring and thought it may date back to the 14th century. The really exciting news for the finder of the ring is that the experts believed that it can fetch $64,500 with the upcoming auction.

Discovering the treasure in the Sherwood Forest

The expert, Mark Thompson, discovers the treasure during that time he was utilizing with an affordable detector that he purchased from the online auction site on Ebay. He’s a painter of the forklifts and was searching for fortunes for just 1 1/2 year. He alleged the metal beneath the wand just 20mins into the meeting in Nottinghamshire in Sherwood Forest.

The online news reports of the finding said Mr. Thompson anticipated to discovering scrap metal with no value or just coins of small value, but during that time by turning up the soil, there was that glint of gold that he saw.

One part of the ring depicted the baby, believed to denote the Christ child, the other part depict the female saint, possibly Saint Elizabeth from Hungary. The mutual figures are engraved in the gold in the ring. Then, Mr. Thompson stated the finding to the proper authorities.

The worth of Medieval Gold Ring

This ring will net him the little fortune if it is really worth its expected worth of $64,500, as provided by the expert at British Museum. Christie's of London, the auctioneers, have provided the ring an even more conservative approximation of $45,000. Either way, its profit will be split to 50/50 together with the landowner. The spokesperson for Christie's had explained the meaning and the value of the ring, saying:

“Mr. Thompson needed to wait for 3 years to have that opportunity to place that medieval gold ring for auction. That moment has been spent following the proper legal process for when someone discovered buried treasures and to have a ring being identified and appreciated with British Museum and the coroner. The coroner also declared the ring being one of the treasures that gave the museum their initial chance to purchase it. When it declined, the ring has been sent back to Mr. Thompson that has now settled to place it on auction.

The type of Loot that Robin Hood might like…

This ring is not thought to be simultaneous with Robin Hood that based on the legend, operated with the gang out of the Sherwood Forest during the 13th century, about King John time. It is still not known was the real Robin Hood or even if he’d more than just that legend but the actual historical figure.

He differed from the other robbers during that time, with Eustace the Monk and Fulk Fitzwarin, who were the real people and were not just legendary. The legends said that Robin Hood stole it from those riches and handed it to the poor.

Ancient Harvest Fairs

The harvest festival that honored Min, the god of fertility and also of vegetation, was commemorated by the ancient Egyptians. During the final day of the harvest (which is being held in springtime), there will be grand parade that was believed to be held at which this Pharaoh would attribute. The Egyptian farmers will make believe to weep and to mourn just to fool those spirits that had been dwelling in their crops.

The ancient Greeks had been giving thanks to Demeter, the goddess of harvest and of fertility. The Romans are also honoring Ceres, the divinity of agriculture, (from which the term cereal has been taken) and another festivity has been held to give honor to the gods of the grain.

The Ancient Celtic peoples have robust harvest festivals, then, these traditions had goes on for about thousands of years now.

In the Jewish practice, the holiday of the Sukkot or the (Feast of Booths) has also been observed during the season of fall in which exceptional meals are being eaten from the booth, Sukkah or hut, to give thanks to the care and the protection god is giving.

The very old roots of harvest festivity are stretching back to the time when hunger has been that constant threat and many societies are sensing the mercy of many gods in the history of the world. The thanksgiving now is the modern, thriving holiday—the blend of secular and religious — but, still celebrated from around the globe in different means, with honor being given to the bountiful of our lives, that is shared among those who are strangers to us, our friends and most especially, our family!

Lucy was not that smart as the Great Apes of today

The researchers have discovered that the first human beings such as the popular ‘Lucy’ were not that really smart as the enormous apes. Using the new methods, they had been able to identify that the earliest human beings did not have that similar flow of blood into the brain like the modern apes, that they calculate, which means that the pre-humans would not have had that similar level of intelligence, being said as the modern gorillas. As an outcome of the study, the view of the development of the early human beings may have to alter.

The research has been carried out in Australia at University of Adelaide. It has been led by the evolutionary biologist, Professor Roger Seymour. Mirage News reported that it has been “conducted through the partnership with Evolutionary Studies Institute in University of Witwatersrand”. The study sought to approximate if the pre-humans has been as intelligent as the recent great apes, through measuring the flowing of the blood to a cognitive part of the brain instead of the mass of the craniums.

Brain activity and the blood flow

The group sought to measure a brain metabolic rate or the BMR, by approximating the ratio of the blood flow in the early human beings. Based on the Proceedings of Royal Society, this “can be, the better correlation of the cognitive ability than the brain size alone”.

It is because this measures a synaptic activity that is “indicative of mutually the rate of metabolism of the brain and the level of intelligence” stated by the Daily Mail. This team had to increase the latest equation that will measure the blood flow in the cranial cavities.

The Great apes are even smarter than the early humans

Professor Roger Seymour said that “the study showed that the cerebral blood flow rates of the human ancestors drops well underneath the facts taken from the non-human, modern primates” base of the UPI.com. It is despite the truth that an Australopithecine brain has been of similar size as the latest gorilla brain.

The gorilla Lucy was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and is thought to be about 3.2 million years of age. From the latest study, it might appear that she had not been as intelligent as the modern species of the great ape. We are then aware that the gorillas are very smart, such as the popular Koko who discover too many signs in the sign language while at the captivity.

This dares notions of the evolution

Usually it had been considered that since early humans had larger brains than they were wiser, leading to the assumptions that they were best able to adapt into the environment and it is what created them so successful. Professor Seymour has quoted as stating that the case “cast doubt above the notion that a cognitive and neurological trait of the recent great apes sufficiently represent the capabilities of the Australopithecus species,” from Irish News.com. It may mean that the theories of cognitive superiority of the early humans of the history of the world, when compared to recent modern primates were all incorrect.

Conclusions image from the Mills and the Townsend

Humans throughout the history of the world had behaved in some predictable ways when choosing their food and when processing the foods they are going to take.

The facts are mutually supporting and are clearly illuminated within the present literature. The ending part is accurate, repeatable, well supported, and construct behavioral and physical profiles of the presently unclassified hominin living of the Bigfoot at the Mount St. Helens.

These proofs analyses that have been presented during the 69th Yearly Anthropological Research Conference corresponds the chance for the mainstream archeologists and anthropologists to examine parts of the credible proof that is gradually emerging. Their Zooarcheological field research plan that has been conducted has used the most present scientific theories and the analytical techniques to light up data that clearly build the profile of the hominin with connected dentition Physio-morphology with the defining behavioral characteristics. The conclusions are from clear and repeatable facts grounded in and being supported by the contemporary peer reviewed sciences. They refer to, expand currently and build upon accepting mainstream scientific theories.

These anthropological research conferences gave those who are present the chance to hear the conclusions and have reviewed the evidence it has been based them upon. It had the opportunity to analyze the procedure and framing theories. Their audience’s reaction in the presentation was one from those encouragement and astonishment reactions. Attendees were has been very encouraged by the comprehensive efforts and also with the broad based analysis. Indeed, it has been astonished by the outcomes.

Catholics Death Rites

During All Souls' Day the Catholics are praying for the dead that are in purgatory - the conceptual place where the souls of the people are being cleansed before they can go directly to heaven. The problem is, when a soul left the corpse, according to the Christians, it is thought to still contain the sins that only through prayers can it be cleansed. And so, where on this earth, or otherwise, that this bizarre thinking originate, that these souls may be cleansed by praying.

During 998 AD in the history of the world, the Saint Odilo has been the 5th Benedictine Abbot of the Cluny, which turned out to be the most significant monastery in the Western part of Europe. Based on an essay on the Heiligen a tradition told the pilgrim being shipwrecked on the island after the storm where there he had the vision “of those souls in the purgatory bearing the cleansing pain of the flames as the punishment for the sins”. It was believed as the father of Odilo in Cluny, who had inquired him if there had been any moments in the year prayer would be directed to the deceased’s souls.

On November 2nd, Odilo subsequently founded All Souls' Day in Cluny, and at times after 1030 AD, the date was then adopted in the entire Western church as a yearly holy day celebrating “all those faithful departed” where the sacrifices and prayers are being made to ease the souls being suffered in the purgatory, awaiting for their purification. 

What about the AMH fossils that did not discover in the area?

It is a very interesting idea; however, it has certainly made controversies. One of those big questions is connected to all of the prehistoric fossils discovered in some other areas that can be early examples of the AMH, like the 300,000 years old Homo sapiens relics that were located in 2017 in Morocco. In light of those fossils, it then makes sense that the researchers will feel anxious regarding the declaration that the AMH have the ancestral homeland in the Southern Africa.

That is where it is important to know that the researchers have not said that some other AMH groups did not exist in some other areas and possibly even just before 200,000 years past.

They also said in the press released that it can be very interesting to look for the genetic resemblance and differences of the researches with prehistoric fossils that had been discovered in the areas like Morocco, Hayes said that she might “love for somebody to be capable of getting DNA from the bones to have the much better picture about how people alive now fit in the big depiction.” Without having those genetic data of these remains, they can’t really be certain if the remains are connected to the people living now or not.

Since this and some other studies are conducted and shared, it can be certainly locate the more debatable and controversy close by the human evolution. These definitely are exciting moments for finding more about the ancient origins and the history of the world.