BIOL 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: King James Version, Ctesias, Great Sphinx Of Giza
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The platypus was initially thought to be hoax and non-existent however, the truth had to be accepted after this con rmation. Gomorrah, which god destroyed in his righteous wrath over lustful behaviour. He wrote of the unicorn (monokeros) as living in india. It was larger than a horse, and had a horn half a meter long. Hidden and mythical organisms - 2: next stop: the old testament, 3rd century bc. A group of alexandrian scholars wanted to translate some of the books of the old testament from hebrew into greek. King james bible, job 39:9-12: and of course pliny, the tireless storyteller. The orsaean indians hunt an exceedingly wild beast called monoceros, which has a stag"s head, an elephant"s feet, and a boar"s tail. The rest of the body is like that of a horse. It makes a deep lowing noise, and one black horn two cubits long projects from the middle of its forehead.
