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The little foxes came out at eve to carry their bones away
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cucumberseed: 16,500 years ago in Jordan, there were foxes buried in human graves. The authors of the original paper believe they might have been, if not precisely pets, then "potential domesticates . . . smaller and easier to control—although more skittish and timid—than the wolf. It seems likely that foxes could have shared a similar type of relationship with humans as wolves did, even if they were never truly domesticated." I will never make an archaeologist. I flashed on 'Uyun al-Hammam as a graveyard of kitsune: some buried in their human-shape, some in fox.
cucumberseed: 16,500 years ago in Jordan, there were foxes buried in human graves. The authors of the original paper believe they might have been, if not precisely pets, then "potential domesticates . . . smaller and easier to control—although more skittish and timid—than the wolf. It seems likely that foxes could have shared a similar type of relationship with humans as wolves did, even if they were never truly domesticated." I will never make an archaeologist. I flashed on 'Uyun al-Hammam as a graveyard of kitsune: some buried in their human-shape, some in fox.
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Did you like City of Gold? I meant to get it at one point, and then lost track of the idea. (The story of my life ... .)
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Yes. Not all of its retellings work equally for me, but I am very fond of the professional storytellers comparing notes on the Biblical and Babylonian flood stories, Saul as an Alexandrian doctor's case history of demonic possession, and David and Goliath as a lecture by a Babylonian drill sergeant on how not to get killed by crazy shepherds with slings. Most of the rest are similarlly inventive and several of them are poems.