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The platypus is the only mammal to have a bill, lay eggs and have venom. I bet the Colonials were trying to figure out why the locals had squashed a duck-beaver and made it eat adders...
Well actually when the colonials brought platypi (?) back to the Queen, she thought they had just sewed a whole lot of animals parts together.
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The platypus is the only mammal to have a bill, lay eggs and have venom. I bet the Colonials were trying to figure out why the locals had squashed a duck-beaver and made it eat adders...
On a side note relating to "baffled Europeans", the kangaroo got it's name when then colonials asked what it was, the aboriginals said "kangaroo?" which means in that tribes language (forgive me for not knowing the name) "I don't know what you're talking about" ... or it could have meant just "wait... what?", I didn't really pay attention in class back in the day.
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Well, the plurality of the name for the One and Only G-d stops me, too. Maybe it's like the passage "And G-d went up from Abraham." (Parshat Vayera?)
There is a world movement called the Raëlians, and they believe that "Elohim" is plural because it refers to the extraterrestrials that formed all life on earth and the Bible is a historical testament to their existence. I'm actually very interested in this view and in Raël's message, I've recently started reading "Intelligent Design: A Message from the Creators" and I must say it is
very interesting. Yet, it fails to answer "who created the extraterrestrials who created us? where did all existence begin?" and so forth... (Although from what I understand in my limited knowledge of science and Raëlian ideas, they believe that time and space are infinite somehow) But just thinking of this makes my brain hurt.
(Also, I look all fancy and new! I might not yet be Jewish, but I can still look like all chasidic and wonderful on Gaia
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