The Unicorn Museum
Just so you know, the King James Version of the Bible really does refer to unicorns in Job 39:9-12. Modern translations have changed that to “wild ox.”
It’s a common complaint critics make about fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible: if you take some of it literally, you have to take it all.
Some of the stuff on that site is a little . . . extreme, but I have to appreciate the overall concept. I mean, if you’re going to have a Creation Museum, you’re opening yourself up to just this kind of rebuttal.
Thank you, Kelley, for passing this along.
Everyone else’s take on this?
{Psst, Diana–aren’t you writing a series about killer unicorns and the girls who hunt them?}
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There is an apocryphal book called Bel and the Dragon that is found in the septuagent. (Still used in the eastern orthodox church.)
Don’t remember where I intended to go with this info because I’ve only had 4 hours of sleep.
Unicorns rule.
I would so go to this museum and happily pay full price-how awesome is that “commerical” for the Unicorn Museum?!
Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn was a great book and movie. Maybe the next commerical should use clips from Legend,like this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E2gYCWZMVik
or this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QWdrjl8Fxpk
i voted for the first billboard (noah’s ark) even though my experience with unicorns is that they are usually pink or blue with lots of sparklies–wait, those might be my little ponies, or my little pony-like unicorn…
I like the second billboard. Far more accurate.
Yes, I am writing a book series about historically accurate unicorns, INCLUDING the ones in the Bible. By the way, unicorns also appear in the Book of Daniel, Deuteronomy, and in several other books in the Bible.
When my unicorn book page finally goes up, I’ll have a more in-depth conversation about the biblical unicorn and the translations that resulted in its inclusion. Suffice it to say for now that the Greek translation in the Septuagint of “monokeros” (mono=one, keros=horn) is from a Hebrew word transliterated as “re’em” which was a word for a type of Arabic wild ox known as an aurochs. But in the middle ages and beyond, people took the Greek literally, thus, uni-corn.
There is a type of unicorn in my book called a re’em.
@d-what are my little ponies called in the bible?
Annette, ha! My Little Ponies. I love it.
Diana, I’m hooked already!
I was raised a dreaded Southern Baptist in the Bible Belt, though fortunate enough to attend a rather moderate church. We accepted that there are many ways to interpret the Bible, and not all of them (or even most of them) are literal. Some people forget that even our translations are interpretations. Unfortunately, the “hardliners” sometimes make all Christians seem like idiots.
Robin’s book, which I’m happily in the middle of, addresses some of these issues. There really are folks out there who, in the name of God, completely repel anyone who doesn’t think exactly like them. In my experience, there are many more who are sincere and loving and actually try to reach out to people and begin a dialogue, even if they aren’t as open-minded as we’d like.
Has anyone seen the movie Saved! with Jenna Malone, Mandy Moore, and Macauley Culkin? HILARIOUS. And frightening. Just like the Creation Museum and the church members depicted in Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature.
Kelley, I loved Saved!, too. So scary, yet so real in some of what looks like over-the-top behavior. Those of us who grew up in churches like that know how accurate parts of that movie are.
Diana, I can’t wait to read that book! No pressure, but hurry up and write!
Annette, I hate to break it to you, but My Little Ponies did not make it into the Ark. They had to be grown afterward in laboratories.
Lady T, that unicorn in the first clip is beautiful! But what’s with Tom’s hair? Dude, call your stylist!
Heather, I’ve heard of that, but I don’t think I’ve ever read it (we didn’t do apocrypha in my church, which is why I came to that phenomenal story of Judith so late in life). Is the dragon in Bel and the Dragon a real one?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sx6TQOhyr9I&mode=related&search=
Little Willow, that’s some beautiful anime! Thanks for posting. I feel like I’m running the Unicorn YouTube Museum, and that’s okay by me.
Awesome clip,Little Willow! I like how the baby unicorn can just all of a sudden turn into a full grown winged unicorn to save the day. So cute:)!
Yeah,Robin-Tom was seriously rocking the Renaissance Festival hair for that one. I love the part in the second clip where Mia Sara dances around with the masked figure in the evil black dress and then winds up becoming the wearer of that outfit in the end.
Yeah, Lady T, that was a cool scene. By the way, major chortle at “Tom was seriously rocking the Renaissance Festival hair for that one.” Excellent call.
I don’t know, Robin. (About the dragon.) Once I realized I had purchased the wrong version of bible + apocrypha, I didn’t read further, I exchanged it for the NRSV.
In Phoenix, we’re proud of our oryxes (aurox . . . en?).
See?
And when they turn sideways, yes, their straight horns in almost parallel vertical planes do appear as one.
Oops, my HTML was too wicked good.
http://www.phoenixzoo.org/learn/animals/animal_detail.aspx?FACT_SHEET_ID=100003
Hello everyone. I’m new to this site. Kelley is my sister and she gave me the link to come here. I’m a voracious reader and I thought the Unicorn Museum thing was hilarious! I, too, would love to go to a museum dedicated to ‘fantastic beasts and where to find them’.
Kittymama, that little baby oryx is so cute! That’s cool that they can pretend to be unicorns from the side. Pranksters.
Katie, Kelley’s sister, welcome! Hope you’ll be sticking around to play!