Unicorn chaser nativity scene
Boing Boing reader Matthew Miller says,
My daughter arranged some new toys of hers with our manger scene. The result: a unicorn chaser watching over baby Jesus. She thought it was pretty hilarious and I must say I did too.Link.
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Who wouldn't want Gandalf as a godparent?
This reminds me of the Mr. Bean short where the nativity is overrun with toys like a T-Rex and a tank.
Equal truth values.
Is there some kind of battle to see who can gross out Xeni?
It works for me.
The unicorn is a Christ symbol, at least according to this medieval bestiary.
http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast140.htm
the road to hell is paved with unicorn chasers
The unicorn is not a Christian symbol. To state that fact the free jews were in the desert when they made an idle of a gold. that cost them 40 years in the desert. I would stay away from the fantacy animals especially around Christ. Interesting topic
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If there's Christian symbolism in the unicorn, it was probably shoehorned in after the fact (kind of like the rest of Christian symbolism, come to think of it).
Unicorns of a sort have existed in Chinese mythology for a lot longer than any recorded European legends, though Chinese unicorns tend to look more like deer with a short, fat horn rather than horses with a long spiraling (and suspiciously narwhal-like) horn.
I always thought the medieval European incarnation of the unicorn legend was an excuse for randy hunters to get impressionable young maidens out into the forest and show their breasts. Sort of like pedophilia meets snipe hunting.
The narwhal doesn't have a "horn" it has a tusk. It is, of course a phallic symbol and like all such symbols it has more to do with our libido than anything else.
Well, sure. Early Christianity went around like a medieval mashup artist, latching onto pagan symbolism and holidays and incorporating them into itself, so as to be able to say to the pagans, "Hey, look! We're not so different from what you worship after all. So why not worship what we do instead? You'll hardly even have to change anything." Probably one of the major reasons it was successful enough to become the powerhouse it is today.
But the reason the unicorn has become a Christian symbol is that was mentioned a dozen times in the King James Bible. For instance:
It was actually a mistranslation of re'em, referring to an ancient Hebrew wild ox. Given that the KJV was more or less the Bible for hundreds of years, the unicorn would probably have faded into the same heraldic obscurity as the gryphon or the chimera if it hadn't been for those prominent mentions.
By the way, everything you could possibly want to know about unicorn myth and legend, from ancient days up to the 1930s when the book was written, can be found in Odell Shepard's The Lore of the Unicorn, which you can find as an e-book right here:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/lou/index.htm
I had to google and wikipedia to glean the significance of the phrase "unicorn chaser" with boingboing.
My first assumption, thankfully wrong, was that it was along the lines of a "chubby chaser."
#7: Mangled theology, multiple typos and comment spam! Nice hat trick.
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I don't know what it is, but now I want an 'idle of gold'.