Mountain Menage au Trios
Nov 12, 2020 11:27:10 #
I suppose it was in the late 1950’s, perhaps 1958 when I first heard the term for an unusual and legendary creature. This creature was of almost mythological in its features and abilities. For instance, it was reported to have had two heads, but not like a mis-formed snake, turtle, or perhaps a pig or goat. This creature was supposed to have a head at either end of its body.
Now there is the Greek legend of the Chimera, an animal with the body and head of a lion, the rear like a goat, and a tail of a serpent. And with the capacity to emit fire from its mouth. However, from the old sergeant major, this creature that had been reported living high in the Rocky Mountains had none of those features reported by the few rare sightings.
This animal, which had so far gone without a name was much different, bigger, and had a thick hairy coat that was honey blond. It was from the front, or more accurately one end looked like a grizzly bear. But from the other end, it had the appearance of an ek but retained the same honey blond color. More amazingly, when it moved, it had great flexibility in that it was equally adept at moving either forward, backward or to either side. It had almost a crab-like ability as far as its choice of locomotion.
Finding this description of any animal to be quite irrational, even hilarious, I asked the sergeant if he was being serious or just pulling my leg. He said he was dead serious and that he had been given all this information from an old Indian who had served his tribe as a medicine man and shaman for many years and had claimed to know about such a creature. The Indian’s name was unpronounceable but meant “Honey Tree Seeker” because early in his life he had been taught how to spot and follow bees when one had gone to water and track it back to the tree or ground hive.
It was because of this talent that he developed that another older and experienced shaman had told him of the strange animal and how it came to have been born. Their tribe had been almost eliminated due to white man diseases, but there were a few left who had finally chosen to associate themselves with the Ute tribes who were in both Wyoming and Utah.
This Indian, Honey Tree Seeker, had related the story that there were three animals who were peculiar, even queer so that their kind forced them out of any association with their kind. The first was a very blond male grizzly bear, the second was a very blond female bison and the third was a blond bisexual elk. Since all their kind had rejected them, they had little choice but to form a three-way bond. It was triply unusual that besides their sexual preference, they were all coated with blond coats.
It was the grizzly that introduced his partners to the delights and deliciousness of honey. Not only was it delicious and a good food source, but the grizzly was also an expert in finding trees with a large supply. In fact, he had finally discovered the mother lode of bee trees, in that he had found one enormous tree that must have been 60 feet tall, hollow, and filled with many years storage of honey that had gone unconsumed the extra large hive who dwelled there.
Now the honey grizzly had no trouble in feasting upon this source of honey, but that was not true for either the honey colored bison or the honey colored elk. They were about to depart for other range when there was that very night a violent wind storm that could have had cyclone qualities and it caused this honey tree, which had been hollow for years and somewhat rotten at the base to crash to Earth. This crash opening the entire trunk, just like a cattle feed trough. Honey grizzly quickly introduced his friends to the honey, which was graduated all the way for very fresh to old and finally even old and fermented honey that had the quality of aged brandy!
None of the three knew anything about the intoxicating quality of this aged honey, and after a taste, decided it was preferred. Well, one thing led to another and finally, after a lot of friendly jesting, joking, and nuzzling they all fell into a deep sleep. Well, other than having a super headache the next day, they did not realize that the blond female bison was pregnant until she began to recognize she was carrying a new baby.
Well, nothing was said or done, because there were no verbal communications between the three. They continued to consume the tree’s honey, and later found other trees that were also laden with this elixir and that was what sustained them.
Finally, the blond bison goes into labor and delivered an unusual offspring. It had the head of a grizzly on one end. On the other end the head of an elk, all with the middle body of a bison, and all wrapped in a very blond coat of long hair. Now the three parents could have expressed a lot of worry, or concern because as soon as the baby could stand and walk, it was amazingly adept at moving forward, backwards, and side-wise with equal agility, something that none of its parents had ever been able to accomplish nearly as well.
Now many different Indian tribes have traditionally taken any white bison, Elk, or Grizzley to be an omen of good fortune and are not to be hunted or killed. But this honey blond tri-animal without a name was totally unknown or described in their legends since nothing like this had ever existed in their past. But it was unusual and granted their highest regard and thought to be sacred in every respect. This animal not only is blond but is unusually temperamental and can easily have a temper tantrum. Why? Well because it has two heads and no read end, it cannot defecate, which makes it quite mean. Just Saying…RJS
Now there is the Greek legend of the Chimera, an animal with the body and head of a lion, the rear like a goat, and a tail of a serpent. And with the capacity to emit fire from its mouth. However, from the old sergeant major, this creature that had been reported living high in the Rocky Mountains had none of those features reported by the few rare sightings.
This animal, which had so far gone without a name was much different, bigger, and had a thick hairy coat that was honey blond. It was from the front, or more accurately one end looked like a grizzly bear. But from the other end, it had the appearance of an ek but retained the same honey blond color. More amazingly, when it moved, it had great flexibility in that it was equally adept at moving either forward, backward or to either side. It had almost a crab-like ability as far as its choice of locomotion.
Finding this description of any animal to be quite irrational, even hilarious, I asked the sergeant if he was being serious or just pulling my leg. He said he was dead serious and that he had been given all this information from an old Indian who had served his tribe as a medicine man and shaman for many years and had claimed to know about such a creature. The Indian’s name was unpronounceable but meant “Honey Tree Seeker” because early in his life he had been taught how to spot and follow bees when one had gone to water and track it back to the tree or ground hive.
It was because of this talent that he developed that another older and experienced shaman had told him of the strange animal and how it came to have been born. Their tribe had been almost eliminated due to white man diseases, but there were a few left who had finally chosen to associate themselves with the Ute tribes who were in both Wyoming and Utah.
This Indian, Honey Tree Seeker, had related the story that there were three animals who were peculiar, even queer so that their kind forced them out of any association with their kind. The first was a very blond male grizzly bear, the second was a very blond female bison and the third was a blond bisexual elk. Since all their kind had rejected them, they had little choice but to form a three-way bond. It was triply unusual that besides their sexual preference, they were all coated with blond coats.
It was the grizzly that introduced his partners to the delights and deliciousness of honey. Not only was it delicious and a good food source, but the grizzly was also an expert in finding trees with a large supply. In fact, he had finally discovered the mother lode of bee trees, in that he had found one enormous tree that must have been 60 feet tall, hollow, and filled with many years storage of honey that had gone unconsumed the extra large hive who dwelled there.
Now the honey grizzly had no trouble in feasting upon this source of honey, but that was not true for either the honey colored bison or the honey colored elk. They were about to depart for other range when there was that very night a violent wind storm that could have had cyclone qualities and it caused this honey tree, which had been hollow for years and somewhat rotten at the base to crash to Earth. This crash opening the entire trunk, just like a cattle feed trough. Honey grizzly quickly introduced his friends to the honey, which was graduated all the way for very fresh to old and finally even old and fermented honey that had the quality of aged brandy!
None of the three knew anything about the intoxicating quality of this aged honey, and after a taste, decided it was preferred. Well, one thing led to another and finally, after a lot of friendly jesting, joking, and nuzzling they all fell into a deep sleep. Well, other than having a super headache the next day, they did not realize that the blond female bison was pregnant until she began to recognize she was carrying a new baby.
Well, nothing was said or done, because there were no verbal communications between the three. They continued to consume the tree’s honey, and later found other trees that were also laden with this elixir and that was what sustained them.
Finally, the blond bison goes into labor and delivered an unusual offspring. It had the head of a grizzly on one end. On the other end the head of an elk, all with the middle body of a bison, and all wrapped in a very blond coat of long hair. Now the three parents could have expressed a lot of worry, or concern because as soon as the baby could stand and walk, it was amazingly adept at moving forward, backwards, and side-wise with equal agility, something that none of its parents had ever been able to accomplish nearly as well.
Now many different Indian tribes have traditionally taken any white bison, Elk, or Grizzley to be an omen of good fortune and are not to be hunted or killed. But this honey blond tri-animal without a name was totally unknown or described in their legends since nothing like this had ever existed in their past. But it was unusual and granted their highest regard and thought to be sacred in every respect. This animal not only is blond but is unusually temperamental and can easily have a temper tantrum. Why? Well because it has two heads and no read end, it cannot defecate, which makes it quite mean. Just Saying…RJS
Nov 23, 2020 23:31:39 #
FixorFish
Loc: SW Oregon
Stood up after reading this missive.... nearly fell over, sideways, of course. A normal reaction when one leg is LONGER THAN THE OTHER, from being tugged on !
Good one, RJ...... little of that "fermentation" for yourself, before sitting to type it out ? ......Hehehe
Good one, RJ...... little of that "fermentation" for yourself, before sitting to type it out ? ......Hehehe
Nov 24, 2020 11:13:54 #
No, and I am not even sure honey can ferment into a beverage. I did rely on what one of my uncles taught me about tracking a "bee line" from water to the nearest wild bee tree. And then the final part about an old joke. Just Sayin...RJS
Nov 24, 2020 13:53:25 #
FixorFish
Loc: SW Oregon
Actually the English have been making a honey-based fermented drink for centuries......mead.
Nov 24, 2020 22:40:55 #
Well, I suspected that, knowing very little about Mead. But in the realm of imagination, anything is possible and that is what I was using. Just Sayin...RJS
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