tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post1543434443718474188..comments2024-03-29T01:11:38.037+00:00Comments on Retro-Forteana: Satori - ape, goat-man or deer?Andrew Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-60542657589354062442011-09-03T13:41:42.446+01:002011-09-03T13:41:42.446+01:00You may be right. To my mind, the story would make...You may be right. To my mind, the story would make more sense if the mysterious animal was an ape rather than a deer, so I was speculating on why at some stage (apparently) the ape of traditional Japanese legend got transformed into a deer wen the story was told in the London Zen class. I think your theory is better than mine -- that in some sense killing a deer is more "politically correct" than killing an ape.Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-29110651485112445612011-09-03T13:19:36.394+01:002011-09-03T13:19:36.394+01:00Actually I think there's quite a lot of doubt ...Actually I think there's quite a lot of doubt about that. Deer are game animals; killing them to eat them is routine. Apes aren't, and they resemble humans, so killing them is much less intuitive.<br /><br />And of course you don't kill deer with axes, but with projectile weapons - spears, arrows, guns. Livestock and our fellow men are the only things it's appropriate to kill with melee weapons like axes.Peni R. Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01781761011389542245noreply@blogger.com