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Where did half-human half-animal myths come from?
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>>17274800
Humans like to anthropomorphise nature as a coping mechanism.
>if it's like me maybe I can reason with it?
This is also how religions were created.
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>>17274800
peoples imagination.

humankind has always been very good a creating and imagining creatures and monsters.

all we know is that it is a very ancient practice. it might also be linked to early shamanic practices but can't really speculate much on ancient cave art
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also lion man is very old
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>>17274800
Werewolves are just part of the Proto-Indo-European *kóryos cultural practices where warriors would wear wolf skins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*K%C3%B3ryos

Other warriors wore bearskins (berserkers). That's why British soldiers still wear those tall bearskin hats to this very day. It's just an inherited tradition.
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>>17274800
Real life
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>>17275999
>everything was monkey men who wanted to rape Aryan women
This nigga finally shook me out of my Nazism. The foundation of its esoteric racial doctrine is all irredeemably retarded.
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>>17276033
What does that have to do with interpreting everything from dragons to Enki as a Blacked conspiracy?
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>>17276037
Its called myth making - there's usually some truth to the myth.
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>>17274800
psychedelic experience and hunting/fertility rituals. if youve ever taken a high dose of mushrooms or even marijuana in the right context in the middle of the night youll find yourself imagining yourself turning into an auroch of sorts
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>>17274800
Aliens created man by merging apes with pigs. I imagine they did the same to humans as well



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