ABC al-Qazwini pop quiz! What on earth is this whalewolf-looking animal?
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ABC al-Qazwini pop quiz! What on earth is this whalewolf-looking animal?
A Book of Creatures 
Kăk-whăn’-û-ghăt Kǐg-û-lu’-nǐk is my guess
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Are we looking at some sort of non-existent chimera or an interpretation of a real animal? I suppose for our ancestors those two categories were somewhat blurry.
The Arabic script makes me wonder if it’s a middle-eastern attempt at depicting a Huponiu, an kind of amphibious ox/yak from China often described and depicted with sail-like fins on their backs.
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Orca, dogfish, akhlut/ it’s actual name that’s too long
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Why is everyone going after the Inuit monster, when it’s obviously has a form of Islamic script? Also, I say a jackal or a hyena.
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I thought it seems akhlut, but the characters and drawing stroke looks like west asian styles.
Is it Brethmechin?
sorry for awful English.
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Could this perhaps be some sort of interpretation of a Telchine?
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