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[Anonymous No.10548234]

Start believing in giant gold digging ants from India.

[Anonymous No.10548247]

you best start believing in giant gold digging ants from india stories....you're IN one

[Anonymous No.10548627]

>>10548234
can you explain this? i think I have come across it before, I dont recall if it was an analogy or thought experiment argument of his or you are suggesting he actually thought such. Is it possible he knew about the alien races harvesting God, and when he saw them he thought they were giant ants?

[Anonymous No.10548790]

>French ethnologist Michel Peissel says that the Himalayan marmot on the Deosai Plateau in Gilgit–Baltistan province of Pakistan, may have been what Herodotus called giant "ants". Much like the province that Herodotus describes, the ground of the Deosai Plateau is rich in gold dust. Peissel interviewed the Minaro tribal people who live in the Deosai Plateau, and they have confirmed that they have, for generations, collected the gold dust that the marmots bring to the surface when digging burrows.

>In his book, The Ants' Gold: The Discovery of the Greek El Dorado in the Himalayas, Peissel says that Herodotus may have confused the old Persian word for "marmot" with that for "mountain ant" because he probably did not know any Persian and thus relied on local translators when travelling in the Persian Empire. Herodotus did not claim to have seen the gold-digging "ant" creatures, he stated that he was simply reporting what other travellers told him

[Anonymous No.10548821]

There's no reason griffins shouldn't be considered as real.

[Anonymous No.10548836]

>>10548247
>>10548234
he's like an irl Apu