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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 8153961" data-attributes="member: 926">[Addendum]  Hmmm... after reading the description of this creature, and seeing statues of it after looking it up on Wikipedia, really reminds me of the Ki-Rin; I'm thinking they are mythologically related, perhaps?  Like how all of those old Middle Eastern animal-hybrid celestial creatures, such as the Shedu and Lamassu, are all similar looking to the animal-hybrid descriptions of the angels in the Bible because they all descended from common Middle Eastern mythological roots.(Speaking of which; some Biblically accurate descriptions and stats for Cherubim and Seraphim and other such angels would make for some really cool entries in this series.  Biblical angels were absolutely not winged humanoids as portrayed in modern popular imagination, like Planetars and Solars [even as cool as those creatures are in D&D] but were actually really bizarre non-anthropoid entities, like some kind of LSD-trip hallucinations (because seriously, the prophets and religious mystics who described them all were most likely using some kind of entheogenic herbs to "assist" their visions); rotating rings inside of rings, all covered with eyes and multiple flaming wings, and the like.  The old 3rd Edition Anger of Angels book by Sean K. Reynolds is a wonderful source of D&D-style information for Biblically accurate angels.)This all makes me remember some news that popped up on the Internet a few years ago, when North Korean propagandists claimed that Kim Jong-Un had discovered the cave-dwelling of what the Western press called a "unicorn" but was actually supposed to be a Ki-Rin.The intent of the North Korean* propagandists was to create a link in the minds of North Koreans between the Kim family's legacy and the legendary Ki-Rin, which has associations with the ancient Emperors of China, trying to bolster the family's claims of leadership and infer that they had the "Mandate of Heaven" by implying that they had received the divine favor of a celestial being like the Ki-Rin.It was all ridiculous, of course, and would be about the same as if Queen Elizabeth died and Charles ascended the throne, and he suddenly claimed that he had found Excalibur and that therefore gave him the celestial right to restore the full autocratic monarchy with him as divinely appointed King.*[I initially typo'ed that as "North Gorean."  Now I have a bunch of disturbing mental images of Kim Jong-Un in barbarian attire, surrounded by scantily-clad slave girls at his feet... yuck.]</blockquote>

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