Bunnies Versus German Shepherds

[Maeve]

well it might be
but it's a famous medieval tapestry- which for some reason is in New york- i've seen them tho (there's a sort of series of them, called the lady and the unicorn tapestries)

[Dark One]

i know the ones you mean. I'd love to see them. They sound very cool!

[Lucy]

Maeve said:

well it might be
but it's a famous medieval tapestry- which for some reason is in New york- i've seen them tho (there's a sort of series of them, called the lady and the unicorn tapestries)

Sorry to burst into your conversation, but The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries sounds rather Legendsong-esque, don't you think?

[Rilla]

I think they actually make an appearance in one of the segues... or is that just me?

[Maeve]

yes it is pretty ledgendsong like
but it's a popular myth that unicorns can only be tamed by women, there are others, i think this one is in France

[Rilla]

I think the ones in the legendsong are from france...

*can't be bothered going and finding the books*

[Monster]

unicorns are pretty

and so cool

Omega

[Dark One]

Unicorns are always depicted as looking like white horses though!

True unicorns were supposed to be slightly different

[Maeve]

The first version of the Unicorn is nearly identical with the latest. Four hundred years s. c., the Greek historian and physician Ctesias told that among the kingdoms of India there were very swift wild asses with white coats, purple heads, blue eyes, and in the middle of their foreheads a pointed horn whose base was white, whose tip was red, and whose middle was black. Pliny, more precise, wrote (VIII, 31):
the fiercest animal is the unicorn, which in the rest of the body resembles a horse, but in the head a stag, in the feet an elephant, and in the tail a boar, and has a deep bellow, and a single black horn three feet long projecting from the middle of the forehead. They say that it is impossible to capture this
animal alive.
Around 1892, the Orientalist Schrader conjectured that the Unicorn might have been suggested to the Greeks by certain Persian bas-reliefs depicting bulls in profile with a single horn. In Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, composed at the beginning of the seventh century, we read that one thrust of the Unicorn's horn may kill an elephant; this perhaps is echoed in the similar victory, in Sindbad's second voyage of the Karkadan, or rhinoceros, which can "carry off a great elephant on its horn." (We also find here that the rhinoceros's horn "cleft in twain, is the likeness of a man"; al Qazwini says it is the likeness of a man on horseback, and others have spoken of birds and fishes.) Another of the Unicorn's enemies was the lion, and a stanza in the tangled allegory The Faerie Queene records the manner of their duel in this way:
Like as a Lyon, whose imperiall powre A prowd rebellious Unicorn defyes,
T' avoide the rash assault and wrathful stowre Of his fiers foe, him to a tree applyes, And when him ronning in full course he spyes, He slips aside; the whiles that furious beast His precious horne, sought of his enimyes, Strikes in the stocke, ne thence can be releast, But to the mighty victor yields a bounteous feast.

These lines (Book II, Canto V, Stanza X) date from the sixteenth century; at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the union of the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland brought together on the heraldic arms of Great Britain the English Leopard, or Lion, and the Scottish Unicorn.
In the Middle Ages, bestiaries taught that the Unicorn could be captured by a maiden; in the Greek Physiologus we read: "How it is captured. A virgin is placed before it and it springs into the virgin's lap and she warms it with love
and carries it off to the palace of kings." One of Pisanello's medals and many famous tapestries illustrate this victory whose allegorical applications are obvious. Leonardo da Vinci attributes the Unicorn's capture to its lust, which makes it forget its fierceness, lie in a girl's lap, and so be taken by hunters. The Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ, mercury, and evil have all been represented by the Unicorn. In his Psychologie und Alchemie {1944), Jung gives a history and an analysis of these symbols.
A small white horse with the forelegs of an antelope, a goat's beard, and a long twisted horn projecting straight out from its forehead is the picture usually given of this imagi nary animal.

From: www.hum.au.dk/romansk/borges/vakalo/zf/html/the_unicorn.html

it's a great website! i highly recomend it

nothing about bunnies and german shepherds tho

[Dark One]

Cool! Just haveing a look through that site now

[Marija]

Well, perhaps if you commented on how cute unicorns were in comparision to bunnies and german shepards, you could be on topic? =P But meh!

[Dark One]

Unicorns are very cute! ;D

[Maeve]

good idea- add unicorns to the debate
and just because i am extreamely argumentative in an animal debate and will argue my case single handedly if i must i shall add my personal favourite (and vastly superior) choice of what animal is the cutest.
Meerkats

*indicates avatar pointedly to all those with raised eyebrows*

[Dark One]

Yay for Meerkats! I love those things! The only things cuter are otters

[Maeve]

well, maybe just ONE otter is cuter than Meerkats

[Monster]

so cute

but no german shepherds are the cutest

but if we can throw in fantasy animals

dragons are so cute

and yes unicorns are too

Omega

[Squarmi]

Awwwwww.... that otter is Soooooooo Cute!!! Aww wow!!!

Squarmi

[Dark One]

Otters are the Cutest!

[Cat]

I have to say i find most animals cute but i reackon cats are the cutest! But out of bunnies and german sheperds i waould go with the dogs.....but cats are still the cutest

[Rilla]

Cats=bad Dogs=Good!

(because for some reason, cats like trying to scratch me to death)

*looks down at cute little Zoe who is sitting at my feet wanting her dinner*
Yes dear. I'll get it now.

[Monster]

cats are evil

stares at cats suspiciously

Omega

[Lucy]

Ah, that otter is mega cute. I have a soft spot for otters...I put up a pic of one somewhere...can't remember which thread though. Maybe "what type of animal would you be" or something of that nature. Anyway, otters win. ;D

[Dark One]

we had a major thread pn our forum just for the Cat's vs dogs debate. I think it stretched to over 150 pages!

[Cat]

Damn straight cats are evil thats y their my favourite aminal! GO EVIL ANIMALS!!!! And they're still the cutest