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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 2080280" data-attributes="member: 10201"><p>One: Doh! Somehow, my sleepy brain conflated yaks and ox and ibex, and got them all mixed up. Probably threw in some of the heavier gazelle-family herd animals that *are* raised as domestic and semi-domestic animils in the Middle East area--things like the addax & oryx.</p><p>Two: The yak-men in Al Qadim are from a far-off-to-the-NE cold mountainous area. IOW, they got the geographical relationship between them and the main area the same as that between the native lands of yaks and arabs in the real world.</p><p>Three: There *are* yaks, domestic at least, in Afghanistan--so i'm not completely off my rocker. Just mostly. Shouldn't've lumped in the fertile crescent, arabia, and Afghanistan so blithely--they *do* form a continuity of cultures, each one blending into its neighbors to a certain degree, but they're too distinct for how i stated it.</p><p>Four: Now that i'm awake, and mostly know what i'm saying, i'll go out on a limb here: there was a lot of trade in the historic Middle East. That yaks were known, at least through stories, is likely. That folklore, if any existed, about "yak-men" would likewise have been known is possible. OK, end speculation, and back to fuzzy recollection: </p><p>Five: While Josh is absolutely right that it is very unlikely to be from anywhere like the Middle East, i *do* still have a vague recollection of reading a story in class, years ago, that had yak-like bogeymen. So, i stand by my claim that it might very well come from real-world mythology, but you should pretty much ignore my conjectures on which mythology, and do your own, presumably-reliable, research. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> [Hmmm... now that i think about it, maybe i'll put re-reading my books of Himalayan folklore on the 'to do' list.]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 2080280, member: 10201"] One: Doh! Somehow, my sleepy brain conflated yaks and ox and ibex, and got them all mixed up. Probably threw in some of the heavier gazelle-family herd animals that *are* raised as domestic and semi-domestic animils in the Middle East area--things like the addax & oryx. Two: The yak-men in Al Qadim are from a far-off-to-the-NE cold mountainous area. IOW, they got the geographical relationship between them and the main area the same as that between the native lands of yaks and arabs in the real world. Three: There *are* yaks, domestic at least, in Afghanistan--so i'm not completely off my rocker. Just mostly. Shouldn't've lumped in the fertile crescent, arabia, and Afghanistan so blithely--they *do* form a continuity of cultures, each one blending into its neighbors to a certain degree, but they're too distinct for how i stated it. Four: Now that i'm awake, and mostly know what i'm saying, i'll go out on a limb here: there was a lot of trade in the historic Middle East. That yaks were known, at least through stories, is likely. That folklore, if any existed, about "yak-men" would likewise have been known is possible. OK, end speculation, and back to fuzzy recollection: Five: While Josh is absolutely right that it is very unlikely to be from anywhere like the Middle East, i *do* still have a vague recollection of reading a story in class, years ago, that had yak-like bogeymen. So, i stand by my claim that it might very well come from real-world mythology, but you should pretty much ignore my conjectures on which mythology, and do your own, presumably-reliable, research. ;) [Hmmm... now that i think about it, maybe i'll put re-reading my books of Himalayan folklore on the 'to do' list.] [/QUOTE]
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