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Dragon Master wrote:
GONGRATS!!!
WOW how many babiers have there been here on the Forum since it started??
I jsut hope I’m nto next! hehehehe 😆I think you just might be safe on that one! 😛 hehehehe
Kujacker wrote:Just adding two cents from someone who knows a fair amount of Japanese.
“Ki-Rin” actually just means “giraffe” in Japanese.
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There is a reason to that. In the end of 1800’s and the start of 1900’s, occidental circuses started to tour in the East (if I can find my book, I will tell you the story in more details). At that time, Eastern people never saw giraffes but both Japanese and Chinese knew about the legend of the Ki-Rin. When the Asians saw giraffes for the first time, they saw similarities with the Ki-Rin and saw the african animal as the life specimens of the legendary animal. So, the occidental circus people enterd the word “ki-rin” in their circuses announcements to propagand their giraffes. This is how it started. Giraffes really have a link with the legendary Ki-Rin. Outstanding, huh?
It’s just like what happenned with the Papuasians, in the 1980’s. A white family entered a tribe to live among them, learning how they lived as well as teaching them that death is a natural matter, not a result of a curse. In the family, there was a cat called Timmy. When the Papoos asked the family what in the world this animal was, the father, after hesitating, said it was a “timmy”. So, now, felines, in papoo language, are called “timmies”. 8)
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