#irish elk
This is an Irish Elk. It roamed the plains of Eurasia during the Pleistocene. It stood 7 feet high at the shoulder and it’s antlers measured up to 12 feet from tip to tip. It went extinct at the end of the last ice age.
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too many people see evolution as just animals becoming better animals when the truth is that theres a species of boar that evolved to die because its tusks grow into its skull because the males with long tusks fuck the most
Yep.
And don’t forget the Irsih elk, which supposedly went extinct because its antlers were too bleeding huge for it to function, and the ladies wouldn’t bang a man if his antlers were not huge enough.
“Shika”
Inktober Day 24 - Extinct
Megaloceros giganteus
Fire he needs ‡ who with frozen knees
Has come from the cold without;
Food and clothes ‡ must the farer have,
The man from the mountains come.
. . . . . . . . .
Better a house, ‡ though a hut it be,
A man is master at home;
I was given Algiz to illustrate, so here is a bit on my thought process:
The XIX century Norwegian loft house, serving both as a storehouse and a guest house — a little speck of light, man-made enclosure and warmth in a sprawling frozen landscape. The “outside” features a jotunn, a troll, a lindwyrm, a vofa or a White Lady, an ominously big wolf, and wandering lights.
A protection symbol is an homage to Bill Mayer or “Meditative Rose”. I know that megaloceros probably did’t live in Scandinavia, but, as you might derive from a straggling list of folklore characters, it’s not about location, and more about symbolism. And an ancient gigantic elk is a best representation of “elk’s horn”.
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