Divine Canines: The Aralez

The Aralez is type of supernatural creature that looks like a winged wolf or a winged dog. They dwell in the caves of Mount Ararat, and these beings often fly at high altitudes in the sky. They were also connected to the spirit realm, and they assisted the souls of dead warriors into the afterlife. Sometimes the Aralez could heal and bring back the dead. This legend comes from Armenian folklore. There is something very angelic about the Aralez who share many characteristics with a lot of benign ethereal beings. 

Linking to all of this is a story called Ara the Beautiful. It's said that there was a war between the Armenian King Ara the Beautiful and Queen Semiramis of Assyria. Many had died and Queen Semiramis commanded her soldiers to locate her lover. All of the dead were to be placed inside her castle and this included the body of Ara, who was considered one of the nobles and given a tomb in an upper chamber. The Armenians announced war again and the queen said: "I have commanded the gods to lick wounds and they shall live again." It seemed Queen Semiramis kept the fallen warriors for that reason.

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The future of humanity?

 

According to scientists, its possible that humans could one day be able to spit venom, the way that snakes do. 

At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, they studied mammals and snakes then concluded how there is a similar saliva producing gland make-up. While venom making animals such as snakes, spiders, jellyfish and scorpions, it's also interesting to learn that humans may one day be capable of doing this! 

There are many animals that produce venom, including mammals! These mammals that can produce venom are moles, the duckbilled platypus, water shrews, solenodons and also a primate species called slow loris. 

Could humans one day be capable of spitting venom? Remember that 80's science fiction series "V"? It was about an alien invasion led by Diana (pictured above), who was able to spit venom. Could that be the reality of humans one day? 

Maybe if humans will be able to spit venom in the far distant future, there would have to be stricter rules on social distancing!

To read more visit Live Science:  https://www.livescience.com/could-humans-be-venomous.html 

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Earth Hounds

 Among the spooky Hellhounds and Black dogs of legend and cryptozoology, there are the less known Earth Hounds. These creatures are often smaller than the phantom Black Dogs, but just as menacing and eerie. They were witnessed eating corpses in graveyards. Described as being like small dogs with dark fur, burrowing into the ground to look for the dead. A face of a dog, but with tusks and a very long tail. Many have claimed to witness these creatures in Scotland. Some think these are rats but these only resemble rats from a distance, close up they appear very different. Others think these could be moles but these animals don't burrow in graves to eat corpses and they don't have certain features like tusks. Another possibility is that this is a badger, that do burrow into the soil of graveyards, but they also lack the physical traits of the Earth Hound. People in the countryside would know what a badger looks like. The Earth Hounds were such a bad problem that it was known to have nests around graveyards and becoming pests. Whatever it is, the Earth Hound is a well deserved cryptid mystery. 

More: Earth Hound at Cryptid Archives           

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