Monster Birds of the Americas
If there is one universal thing in Native American legends, the huge birds, the wild birds and even the Thunderbird (which has been adopted as a trademark for many products not to mention the name of a TV show with related animation). Now apart from the actual observations of these winged creatures, there is nothing unusual about giant flying objects in mythology. What distinguishes these "birds" from each other is that they often like to snack on the aborigines - like fast food, and not eat them. Is there any natural explanation of the Earth for birds carrying humans, such as the crow that captures the nucleus of the atom? Or, can one resort to another abnormal and perhaps extraterrestrial interpretation?
Mythical birds "birds" of the Americas
Dragons: Although primarily associated with the ancient world (Europe and the Far East, etc.), the tannins have some of the lesser known links in the New World of the Americas, and perhaps a little more in the appearance of snakes, the appearance of serpentine. This is most striking with regard to the famous feather serpent (apparently more like a bird) Quetzalcoatl, a central Aztec divinity, but also referred to Mayan culture, and to other mysterious and mysterious Central American culture, Olmex.
However, we have Piasa Bird, who was depicted as a dragon in an original Indian-American mural on the Mississippi River near modern Alton, Illinois. It is believed that the original copies were made by the Cahokia Indians before any white settlers reached their land. Their images of animals and birds such as the falcon, bird birds and snakes were common, as was the Thunderbird icon. According to a local professor who lives in the area in 1830, John Russell, Piasa Bird depicted in the fresco a terrible bird who occupied the area and attacked and ate the local inhabitants who inhabited various Indian villages in the area. It seems they got the taste of human flesh after scanning the human body (corpses).
Thunderbirds & Related: These little animals are close to the global Indian mythology of Native American, and more is that they carry many similar features. They tend to be very large birds seen as the embodiment of thunder (beating their wings), lightning and all the stormy things. A kind of Zeus or ox but with wings, a beech, a beak and feathers. Native Americans believe that giant Thunderbird can shoot from his eyes. say what? So strange is that Thunderbird has teeth in his beak. We have all heard the phrase "rarely like hen teeth" - because modern birds are toothless.
Thunderbirds are also associated with the great spirits that are very common in Indian traditions. They were servants to these gods and they were apparently acting as messenger boys (sorry, messenger birds) - a sort of very large carrier pigeon - carrying connections between these different great spirits. The Thunderbirds were linked to the weather as we saw, and also with water. Now, an interesting parallel is that dragons in the ancient world are often seen as offspring of gods and humanity (somewhat like pigeons again) and have some control over the weather and water was also a common feature.
Therefore, this legendary wild bird is common throughout Indian legends. In fact in one case there was a Thunderbird like a giant eagle big enough, and strong enough to carry the whale in its claws. Say no again? According to the people of Makah in the northwest coast, Thunderbird saved a village from famine by grabbing a whale from the Pacific Ocean and giving it to the community to feed, giving the village food always for several weeks. Would this be an American example of a miraculous case of heaven? Now no bird can hold even a small whale in its beak or tentacles, so there must be another explanation.
I have already pointed out how the Navajas connect Ship Rock (or Shiprock) in New Mexico with a legend that they were transported by a "Rock Rock" provided by their great spirit to escape their enemies from the north. In other legends, Navajos has been associated with Ship Rock with "bird monsters" or the monsters of the slopes that prey on and feed on the flesh of Navajo and the human Zunis. I wonder if that could be a confusing story of UFO abduction.
The related tales are Yaqui from all over the Sonora region in northwestern Mexico. Yaqui legends tell about the huge birds around Mount Skeleton that carried men, women and children.
There are vegetal inscriptions in Puerco Pueblo (or village) located in the national forest forest of a huge bird with a man hanging in the air with his beak. If we assume that humans are average height, say 5 '6', the bird, on a large scale, is about 13 '9' long. This bird is too big! These rocks have been carved in the form of many stones, hundreds hundreds of years ago by the ancestors of the Hobbes, and perhaps even by the lost Ansaises.
When it comes to Thunderbirds, mythologists strongly point out that this creature is just the decoration of the Condor or eagles in California or extinct genes. However, to my thinking, one does not normally associate birds with thunder and lightning (meaning storms). Now you may see birds hit by the heat that may precede the storm, but you do not tend to see the birds in the stormy atmosphere, but they are also looking for shelter from the elements. After many tribes such as Lakota Sioux or Ojibwa of the Great Lakes region make the relationship between Thunderbirds and lightning in particular. Maybe coupling with something bird and thunder and lightning suggests something a little more technical!
I mean something that can act as a pigeon carrying a beast among the gods, lifting huge weights, abducting humans (recorded in many Indian legends) and launching lightning bolts does not seem to me like biology, but more artificial. Now perhaps all these myths of kidnapped giant birds and human beings are nothing more than a rogue eagle or a condor with a lot of testosterone in his system, which, after feeling threatened, attacked a lonely Indian like the fish he had moved away from, got the decorations, grew more, More decking has even reached dimensions and ridiculous abilities. Well maybe.
The real monster "birds" of the Americas
Pterosaurs and Pterodactyls: These small animals were not really birds of feathers; they were just winged and quiet reptiles (or sled) that actually belonged to the Reptile Age - the Mesozoic Age. The largest of these finds (to date) was Quetzalcoatlus, clearly named after the serpent god in Central America. Quetza-baby had a wingspan of 36 to 40 feet, and was probably able to snack on a person. However, all the tyrososaurs and pterodactyls went all kaput by the end of the Mesozoic-Q-baby actually making them until the end of the Cretaceous, 65 million years ago. Unfortunately, it was at least 64 million years before anything resembling humans resembled the planet as a source of food. While Native Americans were probably aware of the fossils of these flying reptiles, they had nothing to fear about having snacks.
Terrorist Birds: Well, this horror actually exists in the Americas, and it was thought for some time to be contemporary with the earliest humans in the Americas. Although they have survived and succeeded in South America mainly, some of them have reached the Panamanian Prisma Bridge to Central America and North America about 3 million years ago. It is now believed to have been extinct about 1.8 million years ago, before humans arrived at the site.
But even assuming that human beings and the birds of terror were contemporary, why terrorism? Well, these crows on steroids were up to 10 feet and could run after speeds up to about 37 miles per hour. Relatives of these beasts with large beaks and pustules were found both in Texas and Florida, presumably bridging the geographical divide between them. So, if the indigenous people are afraid; too afraid? Well, in this case, the top predators may have surrendered because they are ultimately human prey because the birds of terror, along with the rest of the North, Central and South American animals, have become extinct in a very fast and intelligent way after humans appear on the scene. . Now humans, if they are contemporaries, may not have been engaged in fighting the wings with these two merciful neighbors, but they found their eggs as a nutritious nutritious meal to taste them in nuts and berries. Unfortunately, no child is two birds of terror; in the end no bird terror. In any case, unmanned terrorist birds, such as the Emo, the Casuarians, the Ostrich and the Kiwi, not to mention their looted cousins Mua and the Dodo. Thus, the birds of terror do not fit our description of the birds that fly and take away humans from the earth and we feel young.
Giant Condor and related: The Andean Condor, which weighs between 11 and 15 kg (24 - 33 lbs) is currently the holder of Guinness Book of Records as being the largest feather member in America from the bird flock, at least 10 to 12 wings wings feet. Condor California, which weighs between 7 and 14 kg (15 to 31 pounds), is second in terms of the number of wings that are about 10 feet tall. Then there was also the Teratornus Ice Age (Ice Age) weighing in 15 kg to 23 kg (33 to 50 pounds), huge galaxies resembling eagles with wings of 12 to 17 feet across.
In general, the albatross is on par with the Andean Condor the title of "king of the wing" (up to 11 feet for the large albatross), but it is not a familiar sight in North America - then or now. There are many varieties of the North Pacific that reach the west coast of North America, but because these are seabirds, they feed on seafood despite the looting of the geese at land (remote islands) for breeding purposes. The chances that Native American Indians had observed albatross as a regular part of their environment were not as common to those who lived on the Pacific.
The question now is: Can any one or more of the above accounts tell eyewitness accounts of the wild birds that abduct their comrades in arms? Well any sane person will eliminate the Dragon and the Thunderbirds - they are legendary and therefore do not exist. One can not witness the lack of. Tyrososaurs and creeping extinctions were extinct long before humans thought of anyone's philosophy. Terrorist birds have not been able to fly and may not be contemporary with humans in any case. Planets, despite being large, are not large enough. I mean the average human must be large enough to take out the Condor lights, and certainly the humans are greater than being carried across the Condor threshold.
The Condor (the Andes or Californians) are actually eagles and hence scavengers, fed primarily on the cliff, though preferring large bodies like those of cattle. She should feed on the ground, often fooling herself silly when she comes across an appropriate meal that she can not, for a moment, lift herself off the ground. This is hardly a bird that is likely to be a source of hijacked American Indian mythology, although it is a distinctive bird of original American mythology. However, since Condor is a species of endangered species, birds have more reason to fear indigenous people than vice versa.
However, the extinct genes were contemporary with humans (Indians) but, although large enough to cause more than enough trouble for a human infant, there is evidence that humans, in general, may have been more hunters than catches when There was a crisis.
However, even with a weight of fifty pounds and a length of wings of 17 feet, could Mairathia lift and carry an adult, with a weight of two or three times less than the jaguar? Fossil evidence suggests that small mammals, even fish, and geese are their usual means of support. And since Native Americans say that - at least according to their legends - you have to ask yourself if a 50-pound bird can carry its weight, and perhaps a little more by air, can actually fly 100 to 150 pounds? That's between 150 to 200 lbs now that's a very big question.
Has anyone seen an owl, an eagle, or any other raptor that explodes two or three times its weight? Now it may be one thing for a very large bird to kill you (especially if you are dead and not struggling) and take you while you seek with the earth, like the birds of terror, at least for a short while afterwards all are still very heavy compared to the birds. But from the other boiler of the fish to take you flying and fly with you in fact without any support to the ground or the leg at all. Flying (agglomerated wings) is extremely intense at best (we have all seen birds in a gliding position in order to conserve energy), and less try to lift the wings and shelves two or three times than the normal body weight to struggle with.
Now we've all seen documentaries about wildlife showing a big bird, whole, whole, whole, whole, whole, eating, and then catching an unwanted fish from the water. Now the fish may be as big and heavy as the bird itself, but this prey can not be much bigger and certainly not as big and heavy as a predator. The bird, near the water, can not afford the extra weight that can not be controlled in water - then it is a bird bye.
Returning to Earth, birds of prey can attack prey much more than themselves. The bones of these large prey animals are found in nests or raptor cages. The eagle may attack deer or tails. The deer can not defend itself well in the open. But this does not mean that the eagle can actually carry the entire deer carcass, but will tear apart the pieces each time and carry them to a distant pattern to the nest. If young people are not fed, they may feed immediately, only flutter away if they are threatened with the appearance of the biggest scavenger.
Humanly, ordinary ordinary human beings can live twice as much as their body weight, but hardly expect them to run an obstacle course. Half the weight of the human body probably, but not twice as much three times.
Now in more "modern" times, there have been a few observations of giant birds and other unknown birds - creatures that fall within the scope of the study called cryptozoology. After looking at modern "crypto-modern" literature (1850 to date), most observations proved to be normal birds although they may have looked outside their natural territory and thus somewhat unfamiliar to the viewer. Most unwarranted bird species are still uncertain, and are usually too small to be the kind of creatures we were looking for. Scenes of monster birds, while they exist, did not yield the kind of data that would confirm their reality. No feathers, no feathers, no body, no bones. Unidentified monster birds, if they still exist, run out of habitats to hide in; in fact they may run out of a viable ecological living space. If they are not confirmed now, they may not be at all. Besides, any unknown birds in North America, be they birds or the beast, would have been launched long ago from the sky by the Negro Americans.
CONCLUSIONS: There is no mutant or modern bird with humans (such as American Indians) was able to lift anything other than a baby perhaps. Definitely not adults. Bird birds are lightweight - they must be in order to lift themselves into the air. Perhaps the greatest unforeseen predators (birds of terror) are able to get down, grab, and raise adults, but this is not what legends call it. But for the technically underdeveloped Native Americans, who have lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, it may be that the only UFO hijacking occurred to them in the Thunderbird scenario.
Read more about Monster Birds:
Bord, Colin and Board, Janet; "Giant Birds and Bird Birds" (in); Exotic Animals: A World Study by Panther, London; Revised Edition 1985; pp. 109-135.
Mackal, Roy "Alice in Wonderland" (in); Search for Hidden Animals: An Inquiry into Animal Secrets. DUBLEDAY & CO., New York. 1980, pp. 99-128.
Mayor, Adrian; Fossil Legends of the First Americans; Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey;
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