Re: [tied] Shaved Beaver

I agree. For more info on the Magi who went mad because there were no beavers they could shave, enter the title of this thread into your search engine.

BTW. The beaver (Av. bawra-) was sacred to the Magi. The pre-Zarathustrian Iranian goddess Ana:hi:ta: ('immaculate') wore a garment made of three hundred beaver skins, according to Yas^t V.

Piotr

----- Original Message -----
From: David Russell Watson

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 11:32 PM

Subject: [tied] Shaved Beaver

This is your funniest one to date! (-: David > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: tgpedersen > > Subject: [tied] Re: Scythians, Zoroastrians, etc. > > BTW on that subject, the only animal hide that doesn't > need "carroting" with a mercury compound (done on the hide itself, > which is then shaved, and the shaved-off hair is then pounded to > become felt) is that of the beaver. Which means that carroting may > have been invented to compensate for a decreasing supply of beaver > hides. So if one wants to place the appearance of mad, red pointed- > hat Magi, look for where and when the beaver went extinct. It can't > have been hunted for anything but that.