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Animal Husbandry - The Foundation of Human Civilization

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Humans were able to evolve from hunter-gatherer wandering tribes into settled cities, well for the most part at least, thanks to a multitude of developments. These include, but are not limited to, architecture, pottery, and agriculture, providing shelter, storage and food for the community to live on. One such development, which actually started long before sedentary societies began, played one of the biggest roles in t he appearance and evolution of advanced societies: animal husbandry. The implementation of animals within our communities has brought tremendous changes to our lives , for the better and for the worse but more on that later. While most people tend to think of animal husbandry is limited to livestock, the truth is that they were practically everywhere within ancient societies, from work horses (literally or not) to guard animals and even religious figures and symbols of status. Alongside everything, the art of taming wild beasts started with one in particul...
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Yamata No Orochi - The Demon Serpent of Japan

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Before the arrival of outside religions, like Buddhism, Christianism or Islam, Japan had developed it owns believes and mythology called Shintoism. A polytheist religion, their pantheon of beings where called the Kami which referred to gods as much as demons and monsters. Among them stood the dragons, which while keeping the reptilian nature of their western cousins remained completely different. Instead of being fire breathing winged lizards hoarding treasures and tormenting the mortals, Eastern Asian dragons took on a more serpentine form and acted more as forces of nature, being both benevolent and oppressing . Among them stood one in particular , named Yamata no Orochi, known for being an evil creature who tormented a family being eating the daughters one at a time every years ... okay so level of epicness we’ve seen better but anyway. The elderly couple, completely out of their depth against such a terrible beast, could do nothing but watch their daughters being devoured ye...
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