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Post by Cody⢠on Oct 15, 2019 15:56:56 GMT
And why do you think this?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Oct 15, 2019 17:18:22 GMT
Currently I think it's a dinosaur, but I'm always collating so that might change later.
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Post by rizdek on Oct 15, 2019 17:54:38 GMT
I put down dragons, NOT because I think they had actually ever seen dragons, but they had heard stories about large creatures in distant oceans and in distant lands and believed them. I think they may have imagined huge dragons roamed other lands and swam in distant oceans. I could see those stories arising both from myth and legend, from sightings of whales, and from bones people found, perhaps dinosaur bones, and reported them as bones from dragons.
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 15, 2019 18:42:07 GMT
serpent...
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Post by maya55555 on Oct 15, 2019 21:15:31 GMT
According to Georgio Tsoukalos, it is an Extra Terrestrial.
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Post by Cody⢠on Oct 15, 2019 22:29:56 GMT
I put down dragons, NOT because I think they had actually ever seen dragons, but they had heard stories about large creatures in distant oceans and in distant lands and believed them. I think they may have imagined huge dragons roamed other lands and swam in distant oceans. I could see those stories arising both from myth and legend, from sightings of whales, and from bones people found, perhaps dinosaur bones, and reported them as bones from dragons. Interesting. Are dragons said to eat grass?
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Post by CoolJGSâş on Oct 15, 2019 23:58:57 GMT
Probably a hippo or maybe something extinct.
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Post by Vegas on Oct 16, 2019 0:09:42 GMT
Probably a hippo or maybe something else that is extinct. Hippos are extinct??! I keed.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Oct 16, 2019 0:13:05 GMT
an elephant or hippo
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Post by maya55555 on Oct 16, 2019 2:06:58 GMT
So Giorgio is wrong?
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Post by politicidal on Oct 16, 2019 2:15:07 GMT
A rhinoceros. Or a hippopotamus. 15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. 17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. 19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. 21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. 22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. 23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. 24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.ââJob 40:15-24 (KJV) The description sounds like a rhino, but itâs habitat is more like a hippoâs. Arsinoitherium then? They looked like rhinos but scientists think they were more closely related to elephants and lived near mangrove swamps and ate water plants.
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Post by CoolJGSâş on Oct 16, 2019 2:51:37 GMT
Probably a hippo or maybe something else that is extinct. Hippos are extinct??! I keed. Knowing this place, I changed it just in case.
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 16, 2019 3:03:13 GMT
The eating grass line and a few others are puzzlers, but still, I think it's a gator.
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Post by itsmagic on Oct 16, 2019 3:54:57 GMT
i picture something like a brontosaurus.
maybe the even immense titanasaur they found in argentina. 85ft long 30ft high 130,000 lbs
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Post by phludowin on Oct 16, 2019 8:26:20 GMT
A German translation calls it "Behemot Nilpferd", which means Behemoth hippopotamus. The description could also fit an elephant.
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Post by Morgana on Oct 16, 2019 8:54:51 GMT
i picture something like a brontosaurus.
maybe the even immense titanasaur they found in argentina. 85ft long 30ft high 130,000 lbs
I agree. From the description it sounds very much like a brontosaurus.
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Post by Cody⢠on Oct 16, 2019 9:40:40 GMT
A rhinoceros. Or a hippopotamus. 15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. 17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. 19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. 21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. 22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. 23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. 24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.ââJob 40:15-24 (KJV) The description sounds like a rhino, but itâs habitat is more like a hippoâs. Some of the descriptions cannot be made to fit a rhino or hippo. For example the bit about him âmoving his tail like a cedarâ. Rhinos and hippos have small tails. The text also indicates that no men were able to capture it, yet we have evidence of ancient Egyptians hunting down and slaying hippos. Elephants and rhinos also wouldnât be too difficult to take down by hunter gatherers with a spear you would think.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2019 10:10:12 GMT
We can discount dinosaur or dragon as too silly.
Rhinos don't really eat grass... Hippos, elephants, and water buffalo do.
We're talking something that spends a lot of time in water... Hippos, elephants, and water buffalo again.
Reference to lotuses lead us towards India/Asia.
Hippos went locally extinct in India during the Pleistocene mega-fauna mass extinction, best guess about 17,000 BP.
Which would, by a process of elimination, take us to an Indian elephant đ or a water buffalo đ
QED
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Post by Cody⢠on Oct 16, 2019 10:42:12 GMT
A German translation calls it "Behemot Nilpferd", which means Behemoth hippopotamus. The description could also fit an elephant. Well the German translation is in error. Itâs also unlikely to be an elephant. They have small tails and are not that difficult to hunt down and slay.
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Post by phludowin on Oct 16, 2019 10:48:29 GMT
A German translation calls it "Behemot Nilpferd", which means Behemoth hippopotamus. The description could also fit an elephant. Well the German translation is in error. Itâs also unlikely to be an elephant. They have small tails and are not that difficult to hunt down and slay. Maybe whoever wrote or translated the book of Job mixed up tail and trunk. I wouldn't put it past Bible authors or translators to be a bit challenged when it comes to natural sciences. Also maybe they really sucked at hunting.
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