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Legendary Creatures: Underwater Panther

By Uyvsdi - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8843870

An underwater panther (in Ojibwe called the Mishipeshu [ᒥᔑᐯᔓ] or Mishibijiw [ᒥᔑᐱᒋᐤ]) is an important mythical water creature of the Northeastern woodlands and Great Lakes region of North America, especially to the Anishinaabe.

By Heironymous Rowe at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6842493

Some archaeologists think that they were also important to the Mississippian cultures that extended into the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, which broadly refers to the land around the rivers that lead into the Mississippi River and Southeastern coast.

By D. Gordon E. Robertson - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15941023

The underwater panthers were opposing and complimentary to Thunderbirds and were in eternal conflict with each other. The Anishinaabe, Odawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Innu, Anishinaabeg, and Algonquin all have stories of a giant cat covered in scales and spikes along its back and tail. Mishipeshu means 'the Great Lynx' and it lives on Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior. It is a powerful underworld being that often has mastery over water creatures, snakes included. They lived in the deepest parts of lakes and were said to cause storms. Though some groups saw them as benevolent or neutral, most viewed them as causing death or misfortune and needed to be placated via ceremonies in order to keep it and Thunderbird in balance.

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The underwater panther was linked to copper deposits found throughout the Great Lakes Region. By the time Europeans arrived in the area, it was forbidden to take copper from the area because it was seen as stealing from Mishipeshu. Some, though, carried pieces of copper as a talisman of protection.

By Rev. Stephen D. Peet, editor - The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Volume XIII, Page 316, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6006838

American archaeologist Brad Lepper suggested that the Alligator Effigy Mound in Ohio was meant to be a representation of the underwater panther and that early European colonists misconstrued the underwater panther was an alligator because it lived in the water and ate people.

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Cats have long played a significant role in superstition and folklore around the world. At times they have been said to be bad luck, in collusion with witches, and even (mistakenly) believed to have been worshipped as gods. While Ancient Egyptians did not actually worship cats as gods, they were considered sacred due to their connection to the gods, in particular the goddess Bastet. Compared to some of humanities other domesticated companions, such as dogs or horses, cats were only domesticated within the last 10,000 years (dogs, for comparison, being domesticated approximately 23,000 years ago), but despite their relatively recent addition to our households, cats have still gained a firm place in both our homes, and our myths...

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Altie the Altamaha-ha

Altie is a juvenile Altamaha-ha river monster that took up with the kids of Michonne’s Clan. He doesn’t have the most original name, but that’s fine.

He’s a bit of a chimera critter that’s a mix between a cat, a gator and a giant otter with the horns of a bison and the zapping ability of an electric eel. He’s also a mashup of the underwater panther from Native American mythology and the Lochness style river monster that lives in the Southeast US.

The vague people outline beside him is for scale. Fully grown I figure he’ll be the size of a large saltwater crocodile.

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Picture Cave: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos: A Book Review

New blog post at The Storytelling Blog. Review of Picture Cave: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos. I used this book extensively for #TheBigCinch background. #prehistoric #storyresearch

Picture Cave, edited by Carol Diaz-Grandados and colleagues.  University of Texas Press, Austin. A lot of heavy academic research is sometimes needed to feed popular-culture fantasy fiction worldbuilding. Crucial to my novel, The Big Cinch, was Picture Cave: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos. Picture Cave documents Mississippi Valley prehistoric cave art. It also shares the…

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"Did you get in trouble for taking the cup into the ocean?" "Yes. Yes." "Did Rodrigues? He took it in there too!" "Did he?" "Yeah!" "Well, I mean, I brought it under the water—looking back..." "What happened?" "You bring silver into the ocean, saltwater—no!" "Oh, I didn't know that." "I haven't slept! How am I supposed to know? Nobody told me the rules!" "You haven't slept!" "Yeah, but you're naughty—" "But hey! If I would've known about it... oh no, I still probably would've done it. Still probably would've done it!" "Dude, who cares! That thing has been abused all through the years!" "No, no! The cup guys understood, the cup keepers understood—they, you know, told me the rules after and I swear to God I didn't know before but, yeah. Great memories! Great pictures!

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oceangate evolves further the more we talk about it so if youd like to see the other previous developments in concerns to it...

and also because its funny here are some of the times the cup has been held near or above water both salt, fresh and chlorine alike since oceangate in no particular order

and i just think its very clear when oceangate happened because now everyones holding the cup high above the water/near bodies of water and not letting it get dunked

but pre-oceangate the cup was just dunked in maffhews pool hours after they won it (which was before they went to las olas and welp the rest is history)

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

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urgency (to drown) // why, tiger?

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Charles Vess Cards (1995) 70: The Underwater Panther (Costume Sketch)

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In Avengers Five there needs to be a scene where Namor forgets that humans don't have super hearing and tries to tell Shuri something from underwater and all she can hear is glug glug bubble glug

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I cant recall if I posted my mishipeshu art piece yet.