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Add to FavoritesOf course fantasy creatures exist! Only not on this earth, which is why they will remain forever in the realm of fantasy. No fossilized bones of the Unicorn to cloud the evolutionary trail, thank you very much, no skeletal remains of the Loch Ness Monster to muddy the waters. These legendary, un-bodied beasts are thoroughbred survivors of a calamitous event that overtook their world several hundred years ago.
Let's take the Unicorn, for it is probably the most well known, most loved and most easily recognisable of all those otherworldly denizens. There can be no mistaking its characteristics; a small (or not so small) white horse (or is it more like a goat?) with a single, spiral horn twisting out of its forehead (that's a cert). There can be no mistaking the Unicorn's favourite habitat either, for it is well signposted in the stars - Monoceros (which is what the Greeks called the 'One horn').
Monoceros (or Unicorn) is a nondescript constellation close to the wonderful Orion. However, seekers of the Unicorn will have no joy if they should err and search amongst those stars for, like McCavity the Mystery Cat, he's not there. The Unicorn is not far away though, fiercely fighting the Lion for the Crown. Remember that old nursery rhyme? 'The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown. The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town' and so on. This is an account of one of the greatest mythical fights that ever took place. Indeed, it is still taking place right above our heads, for the stars trace the events of that cosmic clash.
The calamitous event that heralded the Unicorn's disappearance may seem to have nothing to do with fantasy at all, yet that is exactly what it was. For the introduction of another belief system, one that would shut out the stars, did for the Unicorn what a meteorite did for the dinosaurs. The only difference being that fantasy has a habit of returning unscathed, thus the Unicorns (there are several, including the two messing about in the waves while Noah's Ark sails away) are all still there, waiting for us to see them again. It is simply a matter of knowing where they still live and of having the patience to wait for them to reappear.
Like many heroes of old they are destined to aid us in our hour of direst need. Hold on, then, for here they come since winter is a very good time for Unicorns. There is the fighting Unicorn of Canis Major and Orion; the first beaten Unicorn is in Ursa Major and another, thoroughly whipped beast in Cygnus. The totally defeated Unicorn is back in Orion again - all around the town/sky/horizon - as told for centuries. But don't take my word for it, spend time out there, under the stars, and you will soon see how all this really does happen in a land far, far away. And if you can't see them...
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When you think about the creatures of fantasy, Is it perhaps that we would like to live in our imaginations. For they seem to be so much brighter than the world we live in today.
I would be willing to bet that a dragon is some form of dinosaur, and were perceived as such back when men were not as intellectual as they perceive themselves to be today,after all they try to logic there way around the world and plant there seeds of belief in you and me and everyone they see.
I like the thought of fantasy creatures they allow us to open our minds and see the world in a different light, where logic is thrown out the window and anything can happen from three wishes to fairy god mothers, and don't forget the evil witch, who instills the reality of pain and gallantry. Yes I believe that there was and will be again those that have the thoughts that allow us to leave this dreary planet if only in our minds, and travel to distant places where we can be whatever we like a knight or a princess waiting for her prince to save her from that fire breathing dragon who has her locked up in his tower.
To ride a unicorn and fly through the skies safe and warm on his back fighting off the evil warlocks and releasing the poor people from their terrible rule over them, having saved the people we then travel to a place where the dragons are fierce and devour any and all who stand in there wake of turbulence, and of course using the power of good and love to defeat the insatiable appetite of the fierce and fearless dragons.
What a wonderful imagination we as humans have, In our minds we can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to the farthest reaches of space and never even leave the comfort of our own homes, I wonder and I have to praise the almighty for giving us the power in our minds to create such worlds and such beautiful thoughts and live in our dreams like no other on this planet can.
Are they real? of course they are, do they walk with us and talk to us? Everyday and every moment they are beside you right now as you read these words,your mind has already traveled and imagined a better place and time where you live out your wildest of dreams and these creatures whether leprechauns or elf's are alive in you and in me and they exist as long as the stories are told and as long as humans use there imaginations they will never die.
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