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Why is it doing that? : Medieval Panthers

Today, we know that a panther looks like a big kitty. Often black in color. Nothing too spectacular (except that they're fabulous creatures in their own right). But in the Middle Ages, people believed panthers were multicolored!

Several bestiaries state that the panther is known to have a big feast and then sleep in a cave for 3 days afterward. After its nap, it wakes up and eminates a sweet odor, which attracts a creatures the panther preys on (the only notable exception is the dragon, which is immune).

Some medieval people used the panther as an allegory for Christ. The 3 day sleeping period represents the 3 days Jesus spent in the tomb ("on the third day he rose from the grave..."). But there are some other similarities:

The sweet smell that attracts all creatures to the panther represents the way Christ draws all people to him.

The dragon, which is the enemy of the panther, represents Satan.

While the whale uses a sweet smell to deceive, the panthers sweet smell is indicative of its holiness. Sweet smell is associated with holiness, especially when it comes from the uncorrupted body of a saint after death.

Not all panthers were depicted as multicolored, but a lot were! Some scholars suggest the colors represent the multi-faceted nature of Christ (man, god, etc), and I've been in discussion groups that suggest the colors might be medieval people's way of describing iridescence.

There's a famous Old English poem from the Exeter Book about the Panther. It's one of the three Physiologus poems that I described in my post about medieval whales. You can read a translation of the poem here:

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This is… the exact opposite of that dark souls gif

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I don’t think it’s possible to adequately state how fucking ballsy and skilled this player is considering the EXTREMELY specific timing of that dodge and catching the spear attack WHILE TAUNTING BETWEEN EACH THROW

I’m wheezing

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I figured they were referring to this gif

Since they do the same pose and it really seems like the opposite outcome lol

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Ah yes. Shroom.

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I'm going down a rabbit hole looking through this Thai cattery that breeds for white back-stripes

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I got a 4 min long video of Kimchi dreaming today, so here's a clip

You get the whole walk cycle and the little sprint at the end.

Sometimes her sprints last for like 4 or 5 seconds and she can shoot herself off the couch or into a wall if she gets a grip with her back claws. If she does it next to a wall, her head smacking into it sounds like someone is trying to break into the house. She doesn't wake up.

Later in the dream she injured her paw and was limping, and earlier she caught something and ate it.

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Man notices an Eagle eyeing the fish he just caught

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*gets back to the nest* baby you are NEVER gonna believe how i got this fish

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have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

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they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

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has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

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this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

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Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

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I had a nightmare last night.

I was a reporter.

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Finally, here is Part 2 as an addition to the original post. Enjoy.

I spent a lot of time thinking about The Rules, and wondering how things worked. Thank you for reading.

Part 3 coming soon.

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Oh, I love this.

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Personal space? Nope - never heard of it.

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Is that…… them

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YALL THERES MORE TO THE SERIES

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it’s so…… stupid that grey rocking, or making yourself as non-reactive and boring as possible, is in part the solution to domestic abuse, and stalking, and grizzly bear attacks, and online harassment, and enduring my fucking eight pound cat. because he wants fun things to happen, and it’s fun when I dash over and go “ohhhh noooo, nooo” and it’s even more fun when I pick things up, because then he can bat them down again. it is taking so much strength of will to ignore the loud and ominous thuds from the other room, but this is the only way. I can see him checking on me to make sure I heard. his pupils are so big and evil. Belphie, we can play fetch on the catio in 10 minutes, but right now I need to renew my government dental coverage.