I need to find that video now, just cause 😂.
Nope I'm not trolling.
Do you know that we've barely explored the earth? New apes are discovered all the time. I think one was just discovered in 2017. Also, have you ever read the etymology of the word "gorilla?"
The word "gorilla" comes from the history of Hanno the Navigator, (c. 500 BC) a Carthaginian explorer on an expedition on the west African coast to the area that later became Sierra Leone. Members of the expedition encountered "savage people, the greater part of whom were women, whose bodies were hairy, and whom our interpreters called Gorillae". It is unknown whether what the explorers encountered were what we now call gorillas, another species of ape or monkeys, or humans.[6] Skins of gorillai women, brought back by Hanno, are reputed to have been kept at Carthage until Rome destroyed the city 350 years later at the end of the Punic Wars, 146 BC.
The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla (they called it Troglodytes gorilla) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia. The name was derived from Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (gorillai) 'tribe of hairy women', described by Hanno.
I didn't always have an opinion on this topic. I used to think it was stupid to even worry with such a thing. But I discovered this really fun guy named Bob Gymlan. He makes amazing videos on cryptids, and approaches this topic in a very careful and considerate way. I highly encourage you to explore what he has to say, for no other reason than to knock one more thing down that you've been lied to about. I've watched all his videos, some of the more recent ones aren't so good.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVPvKc3b_tjIk0qji7kSIa1RbnUEx2wQJ
Edited to add, are you a Bible believer? Essau in the Bible was covered in hair like a goat. In my studies I've come to the conclusion that these people are descendents of nephilim.
Hypertrichosis is what modern science likes to classify the remnants of this genetic mutation.
https://dnascience.plos.org/2012/12/27/the-curious-genetics-of-werewolves/
I'll watch it later tonight. I'm at work right now. Don't get me wrong, it's like the tagline from X Files. "I want to believe". Lol. I'm not convinced by the excerpt though. People were so ignorant of the world back then. I'm pretty sure some pirates, for example, thought manatees were mermaids. I think Hanno just saw some gorillas and didn't know what to make of them. Either way, thanks for the high effort post.
Why in the world would you think people were so ignorant? I would argue that they knew a lot more than we do.
You really believe any human could look at a gorilla and consider it to be a woman? Even language was richer then. Consider Ancient Hebrew has six million words, Greek five million, English less than 200k.
As far as mermaids go, who is to say they didn't exist and were hunted to extinction? Why is it too hard to believe that something like that once existed? There are other creatures that you know about that are extinct now that are just as fantastic, like dinosaurs.
The earth is old. So much has been lost or intentionally covered up.
If that was true, wouldn't we see a bunch of mermaid and big foot skeletons? I suppose the Big Foot skeleton could be in some unfounded remote area, but a mermaid skeleton would wash up on shore. Also, many ppl living in ancient times believed in dragons, fairies, genies and so on. They were a pretty superstitious bunch. Surely, all those things can't be real either. So forgive me being a little skeptical.
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