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Bigfoot,
by Colin Wilson.
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The next chapter, on and titled Bigfoot, gives details of various incidents if Nortwest U.S. and Western Canada involving sightings and more, and goes on to speak of the Asian version, mentioning incidentally that the word Yeti is of a Central Asian language.
The word in Sanskrit and therefore in most of India means a monk who attempts attaining Divine while undergoing, consciously or otherwise, great physical and worldly travails and pains; the usage of this word for a species other than homosapiens perhaps was due to the creatures being seen rarely, singly, and in remote locations, in the same state that such a monk would be, long haired and unkempt, observing no worldly customs that belonged to human settlements.
"It was in January 1958 that Dr Alexander Pronin, of Leningrad University, reported seeing an Alma."
Alma is the Russian name for the creature.
"In Russia more solid evidence began to emerge. In 1958 Lt Col Vargen Karapetyan saw an article on the Yeti – or, as it is known in Russia, Alma – in a Moscow newspaper, and sought out the leading Soviet expert, Professor Boris Porshnev, to tell him his own story."
It ends tragically for the creature, similar to the one killed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
"It was in January 1958 that Dr Alexander Pronin, of Leningrad University, reported seeing an Alma. He was in the Pamirs, and saw the creature outlined against a cliff-top. It was man-like, covered with reddish-grey hair, and he watched it for more than five minutes; three days later he saw it again at the same spot. For some reason good Marxists poured scorn on the notion of a “wild man”; but the evidence went on accumulating, until Boris Porshnev began to make an attempt to co-ordinate the sightings. The considerable body of evidence he has accumulated is described in some detail in Odette Tchernine’s impressive book The Yeti."
"Dr Myra Shackley, lecturer in archaeology at Leicester University, believes she knows the answer. She is convinced that the Yeti is a Neanderthal man. And this is also the conclusion reached by Odette Tchernine on the basis of the Soviet evidence."
" ... piles of animal bones discovered in such caves suggest that Neanderthal woman was a sluttish housewife, and that his habitation must have stunk of rotting flesh."
Why assume that females must be housewives? Felines ànd canines, after all, are known to have different social structures, as do equine and elephants, swans and penguins.
" ... Myra Shackley has travelled to the Altai mountains of Mongolia and collected evidence for the existence of Almas. “They live in caves, hunt for food, use stone tools, and wear animal skins and fur”. And she mentions that in 1972 a Russian doctor met a family of Almas. In fact, Odette Tchernine cites a number of such stories. Professor Porshnev discovered again and again evidence among mountain people that they knew of the existence of “wild men”; the Abkhazians still have stories of how they drove the wild men out of the district they colonized. Tchernine refers to these wild men as “pre-hominids”."
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November 17, 2020 - November 18, 2020 -
December 24, 2020 .
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