Comments on: Mystery Statue: Agogwe or Orang Pendek?

By: E

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:38:42 +0000

Looks like a creative statuette of a monkey.

But I always though that Orang Pendek is way more possible than BF… More curious about those areas =)

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:36:30 +0000

Fossilhunter’s take on Hanuman and the whole “anthropomorphic monkey” thing is interesting and could have some merit.
Look ultimately like an “Agogwe” to me.

By: Dan Gannon

Dan Gannon — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:41:55 +0000

Sleeping in a face-down position, with the neck guarded by the forearms and hands, makes sense as a measure of protection against big cat predation.

By: alanborky

alanborky — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:51:29 +0000

Loren, your agogwe-cum-kara-komba-cum-toulou may’ve been subject to a little cultural filtering because it’s a dead-ringer for Fireball XL5′s Lazoon, Zoonie, (though of course it could’ve gone the other way round)!

That thing about the knees you’ve brought up is highly intriguing, (though it set me wondering if Jon Voight’s character Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy might’ve been an agogwe-cum-almas in a previous life!), but it’s not just the knees that’re similar to a camel’s.

Look at those pointy ears on the almas – I can clearly see versions of those ears on Patterson’s ‘Patty’, and some reports of werewolves I’ve read remind me more of Bigfoot than werewolves, except they make this big deal about pointy wolf-like ears.

As a kid I used to have a friend who could rotate his ears as his party piece but seemed to loose the knack as he got older. Stan Laurel, though, was said to be able to do it into old age, and I wonder if some werewolf type reports might be evidence Bigfoot, etc., have the same ability to draw their ears in or flare them out when listening or as part of their aggression or retreat strategies.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:01:17 +0000

Head and especially nose reminds me of the Minnesota iceman illustrations by Heuvelmans and Lindbergh.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:52:52 +0000

do we know/idea of age? I’m wondering about this being some tourist trap special made in semi-mass quantities to sell to the tourists as (take your pick of names).
by the way, has anyone theorized or locals have stories for the almas sleeping like that? I can only think of sand storms, but does the Gobi desert have that problem?

By: fossilhunter

fossilhunter — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:15:27 +0000

Greetings All!
There is an anthropomorphic monkey in the Ramayana, a Hindu (Sanskrit) epic that can take a week to perform on stages sometimes the size of football fields. Hanuman doesn’t usually look like that though, he usually has full armor on. (He leads his army to aid the hero) And he’s a male. It doesn’t look like the stuff I saw in Indonesia when I was a foreign exchange student there in 1979, but maybe styles have changed. In my opinion, I would say it is simply a piece made to be knocked out fast for the tourist trade at zoological parks in the US!