Tornado Alley (PROG)

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The human imagination really is something. I hope newmedman is careful around his monkeys:

What is the ape falconer all about? The connection between the ape and birds is already found in ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology. The Arabic collection “Bidpai” contains an account of birds who gave good advice to a monkey who promptly killed them, didn’t follow the advice and, you can imagine. In the 12th century, Hildegard of Bingen wrote that when an ape sees a bird, he imitates it and tries to fly, and loses his nerve over his lack of success. According to Janson, the monkey was viewed as Lucifer, who fell because he tried to fly higher than his capabilities. It was known that monkeys often dwell in trees and this too was taken as a sign of their desire to fly like a bird. However the monkey symbolizes the physical side and is weighed down to earth as opposed to the spiritual bird in the heavens. The monkey in his rage tried to trap or kill the bird, almost invariably without success. But sometimes he catches him!

https://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/byon-the-hand-of-an-ape-monkey-men-and-ape-falconers/