This reminds me of a historical Finnish practice of eating stone-age
rock tools found in the soil. It seems they were believed to have
potent healing powers. Something similar may have been going on with
mammoth teeth.
It seems recognizable fossils and man-made objects were often
connected to otherworld powers by our forefathers. :)
-ILe
- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "John Hutchinson"
<jrhutch_94705_at_...> wrote:
>
> Dinosaur/other fossil bones have apparently played other important
> roles in societies' myths and practices; interesting stuff by this
> person, Adrienne Mayor:
>
> http://members.aol.com/afmayor/myhomepage/resume.html
>
> e.g. myth of cyclops related to finding elephant/mammoth skulls (which
> do look like cyclops although the 'eye' is the nostrils), myth of
> griffin related to dinosaur (Protoceratops? etc) skulls, and so on.
>
>
> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, David Dunham <david@> wrote:
> >
> > <http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070704/D8Q5OSB00.html>
> >
> > I read a book on similar practices among North American Indians. (I
> > don't think they called them dragons though.)
> > --
> >
> > David Dunham
> > Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html
> >
>