Re: [tied] Page of Avesta

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 03-01-04 21:02, Andy Howey wrote:
>
> > Or possibly a dugong. Their range used to be much greater than

it is

> > today. They could have, at one time, inhabited the Persian Gulf.
>
> Well, I said the dugong was among the animals mentioned in that

passage.

> And the Persian Gulf dugongs, although endangered, are still

there!

>
> http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/persian.htm
>
> Piotr

Dugong is more native in the Philippines. In fact it is where it got
its name.
Some thirty years ago it occurs in almost any part of the archipelago
but now it is in the list of those endangered.
http://www.fmnh.org/philippine_mammals/Dugong_dugon.htm

In Tagalog it is called "babuy-dagat". The name 'dugong' can also be
applied to 'dolphins'. It is also the source of
many 'mermaid/merman/siren myths'.
http://www.oneocean.org/ambassadors/dugong/
Are we getting OT?

Loreto