A Brief History of Unicorns: The Golden Age of Unicorns

neolithic cave paintings of unicorns, The Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

In ancient India, Unicorns faced an existential crisis. Not the kind where you doubted your role in life, but rather, the kind where your whole species was in danger of being turned into aphrodisiac soup.

Hence, the species of onus cornu moved west, where human civilization had yet to reach the dizzying heights it had in the east. There were signs of cities in the Levant and Greece, so the unicorns pushed on into Paleolithic Europe, settling in glades, glens and flower-bedecked forests...

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Published on July 20, 2010 04:19
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Matt Great piece. Namaste.


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