Many of the Indian tribes shared a common legend about a massive winged creature, which is expected to be more than a condor; the great Thunderbird.
Legends ...
Northwestern Indians said that Thunderbird accompanied thunderstorms, and lightning flashed from his eyes. It is said that he eats killer whales. The Indians from Miami called him Piasa or a human eater. and believed that the bird needs victims or it will attack the whole community.
Thunderbirds were also seen as a kind of positive energy spirit that attacked the monsters. The Indians of Lake Ojibway from Lake Superior said that Thunderbird was cooked with Mishipishu, a snake like the monster of the lake. Thunderbird won the battle, and when he put the snake in his claws, a crack of thunder and lighting marked the event. The Iroquois, however, saw Thunderbird as a guardian of the fire. The Iroquois also had a Thunderbird, called Osadagea, or Dew Eagle, and when evil fiery spirits attacked the Earth, the Devil Oletel flew over the flame, and the dew from the back extinguished the flame and again made the earth fertile.
More recently, the Medical Man Siu, John (Fire), the Lame Deer told about Thunderbird and said that he believes that they have gone to the most remote areas of the Earth, dissatisfied with the dirty and unclean white civilization. Siu called the birds Vakinyan Tankoy. The lame Stag describes them as creatures, whose voices are thunder, and the roar of thunder are the voices of their children. They are a kind of ghostly creature, with not solid bodies. There was a time when Thunderbirds, fighting on the beasts of people, cooked with evil water monsters. The war broke out over the land for many years, until finally the Thunderbirds won.
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On July 25, 1977, 10-year-old Marlon Low was playing hide-and-seek with friends when a big bird grabbed him by the shirt, lifting him feet up in the air. When Marlon shouted about his mother, the bird continued to carry him nearly 40 feet before dropping him. At that time, Marlon weighed about 60 pounds. At first it was thought that the bird was a turkey vulture, but after his mother did some research in the library, she attacked her son; black bird with a white ring at the base of the neck, Californian Candor.
In October 2002, in the Alaskan villages of Togiak and Manokotak, there were reports of a bird with a wing-foot. Although the actual size would be difficult to disassemble from the ground, the witnesses were shocked. The pilot saw it at a distance of only 1000 feet, flying on his plane. “People on the plane saw him,” said pilot John Booker. “He is huge, he is huge, he is really, very big. You would not want to have your children. ” Story Source
The wingspan of the California Condor can reach 9 feet and probably more. Perhaps people see condors, or are these ancient teratorn creatures still alive and among us even today? The theater man is a massive ancestor of modern buzzards and stands nearly 8 feet tall.
Proof ...
In Unsolved Mysteries of Old West (Republic of Texas Press 1999), author WC Jameson tells a curious story about the Thunderbird Cave in Utah. (Despite being out of print, the book can still be found on Amazon.com). In 1738, a group of treasures, searching for the Spaniards, who were loaded with silver bars, were attacked and killed by Indians, angry at the continuous violation of their hunting ground. However, the two survivors, hiding, watched as the Indians took Burro from the dead Spaniards into a cave with a petroglyph of a large strange strange bird above its entrance. Indians killed and hacked the bodies of donkeys, even gathering from their hooves. In the 1980s, an unnamed treasure hunter went to the cave, looking for silver bars in the guilty Thunderbird Cave. Passing all over the earth, he finally found a cave with a petroglyph of a large unusual bird above its entrance. The creature had a long reptile tail. While digging, he unearthed hoof fragments and a large feather stalk measuring 18 inches in length. The barrel is depicted on my blog next to the eagle feather. Ornithologists have decided that this is a wing feather, but from which bird no one can tell. Were donkeys victim of Thunderbirds?
