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Ep 86 - Unicorns - Mythical Creatures, Rhinoceroses, and Death by Virgin
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Coming back from hiatus, Rowan brings us stories of unicorns. Turns out: if it looks like a mythical creature, and has one horn like a mythical creature, it’s probably a rhinoceros.
Join us in examining one-horned, magical creatures from Ancient Greece, the Indus Valley, China, England, and beyond.
Sources
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_horn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Bestiary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qilin
Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/origins-of-unicorns
https://www.livescience.com/what-was-the-indus-valley-civilization
World History
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1629/the-unicorn-myth/
Thought Co
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-qilin-195005
St Neots Museum
https://www.stneotsmuseum.org.uk/articles/unicorns-a-brief-history/
American Museum of Natural History
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythic-creatures/land/unicorns-west-and-east
Wired
https://www.wired.com/2015/02/fantastically-wrong-unicorn/
NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/t-magazine/unicorns-culture-myth.html
125 episodes
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Coming back from hiatus, Rowan brings us stories of unicorns. Turns out: if it looks like a mythical creature, and has one horn like a mythical creature, it’s probably a rhinoceros.
Join us in examining one-horned, magical creatures from Ancient Greece, the Indus Valley, China, England, and beyond.
Sources
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_horn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Bestiary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qilin
Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/origins-of-unicorns
https://www.livescience.com/what-was-the-indus-valley-civilization
World History
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1629/the-unicorn-myth/
Thought Co
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-qilin-195005
St Neots Museum
https://www.stneotsmuseum.org.uk/articles/unicorns-a-brief-history/
American Museum of Natural History
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythic-creatures/land/unicorns-west-and-east
Wired
https://www.wired.com/2015/02/fantastically-wrong-unicorn/
NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/t-magazine/unicorns-culture-myth.html
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