Quote Originally Posted by Darkbrady View Post
You misunderstand; I'm not askin' what the original myth of the creature was; I'm askin' how the myth was devised, and where it can be derived from in the natural, scientific world.

Back then they didnae jus' come up w/ stories for the sake of a bedtime read to the kids; all the stories were really believed; it was real to them. There wasnae some guy who jus' sat and decided on some monster that Belsariuos would slay the next day; there was a reason that the story says he slew a goat/dragon/snake/eagle thing...I'm wonderin' what that was based on.

Quote Originally Posted by abracax View Post
Chimera is a tough one, however think of this. Ancient cultures had a great deal of knowledge we are only now learning again. The babylon battery, brain surgery with a high success rate(Egypt), steam engines(Greece) and many other things.

Is it possible that somehow at some point there could have been knowledge of genetics and someone created a monster? After all, we really have no clue what a great deal of the lost knowledge was, we just assume that ancient cultures were primitive.

Whats wrong with that possibility?