Throughout the course of human history there have been accounts of a beast faster than a deer, brave enough to come out the victor in a battle with a lion, hardly seen by mankind, and armed with a single horn growing out of its forehead. Without a fossil record to either confirm or dissipate these accounts. Could it be possible that the animal in question is merely a figure of our imagination? Should these accounts be put upon the shelves of mythology with the tales of Zeus and Odin? This topic is not discussed among scholars, since the creature in question is a unicorn and already subjected to the realm of fairy tales and bedtime stories. However the Unicorn is shockingly not found in any mythology. Instead it is described in ancient
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In fact many Greek scholars believed that unicorns were real, from the distant, mystical land of India. The first account of a one horned creature was from Ctesias, who was appointed to a court in Persia; he compared it to a wild donkey. But later that could run faster than the common donkey, stag or horse, And also mentions the healing properties of the beast. Another historian, Pliny, told of a creature with a horse’s body, goat’s head, feet of an elephant, having a three-foot black horn, and is too fast to be caught. Julius Caesar wrote of a one horned ox while he was in Germany. The Latin word for ox is general term used by the Romans to describe any large animal. A Roman Naturalist, Aelian, described an animal with a white body, almost purple head, and whose horn was used as a drinking vessel in Indian culture. Though not a single ancient myth about unicorns exists, there are many accounts by respected people who claim to have seen the …show more content…
No one in modern history has ever seen an unicorn, yet does that mean that the animal could not have existed in the past? There is no recognized fossil record for unicorns. But the respected ancient equivalent to biologists had to have seen something. The descriptions are too similar to be a hoax. Also they are too dissimilar to other known animals, especially the narwhal. Will an answer ever be found? It is possible that an unicorn is out there even now, just waiting for us to
In fact many Greek scholars believed that unicorns were real, from the distant, mystical land of India. The first account of a one horned creature was from Ctesias, who was appointed to a court in Persia; he compared it to a wild donkey. But later that could run faster than the common donkey, stag or horse, And also mentions the healing properties of the beast. Another historian, Pliny, told of a creature with a horse’s body, goat’s head, feet of an elephant, having a three-foot black horn, and is too fast to be caught. Julius Caesar wrote of a one horned ox while he was in Germany. The Latin word for ox is general term used by the Romans to describe any large animal. A Roman Naturalist, Aelian, described an animal with a white body, almost purple head, and whose horn was used as a drinking vessel in Indian culture. Though not a single ancient myth about unicorns exists, there are many accounts by respected people who claim to have seen the …show more content…
No one in modern history has ever seen an unicorn, yet does that mean that the animal could not have existed in the past? There is no recognized fossil record for unicorns. But the respected ancient equivalent to biologists had to have seen something. The descriptions are too similar to be a hoax. Also they are too dissimilar to other known animals, especially the narwhal. Will an answer ever be found? It is possible that an unicorn is out there even now, just waiting for us to