Fiamma
March 31st, 2007, 09:40 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_bird
I just found this, I'm curious enough that I will be looking into it more but here is a bit from Wikipedia about a mythological Cinnamon bird. Has anyone heard of this?
The cinnamon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon) bird (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird), also known as Cinnamologus, Cinomolgus and Cynnamolgus, is a mythical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythical) creature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature) described in various bestiaries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiary) as a giant bird that collected cinnamon to build its nests (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest).
According to Herodotus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus) in his The History, the cinnamon bird inhabited Arabia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia), the only country known to produce cinnamon at the time. The giant cinnamon birds collected the cinnamon sticks from an unknown land where the cinnamon trees grew, and used them to construct their nests, fastened to sheer cliffs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff). The Arabians employed a trick to obtain the cinnamon. They cut the oxen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxen) and other beasts of burden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_animal) into pieces, laid them near the birds' nests and withdrew to a distance; the birds were then tempted down to carry the chunks of meat back to their nests, where the weight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight) of the carcasses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcass) broke them from the cliffs, leaving the Arabians to collect the fallen cinnamon.
I just found this, I'm curious enough that I will be looking into it more but here is a bit from Wikipedia about a mythological Cinnamon bird. Has anyone heard of this?
The cinnamon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon) bird (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird), also known as Cinnamologus, Cinomolgus and Cynnamolgus, is a mythical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythical) creature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature) described in various bestiaries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiary) as a giant bird that collected cinnamon to build its nests (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest).
According to Herodotus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus) in his The History, the cinnamon bird inhabited Arabia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia), the only country known to produce cinnamon at the time. The giant cinnamon birds collected the cinnamon sticks from an unknown land where the cinnamon trees grew, and used them to construct their nests, fastened to sheer cliffs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff). The Arabians employed a trick to obtain the cinnamon. They cut the oxen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxen) and other beasts of burden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_animal) into pieces, laid them near the birds' nests and withdrew to a distance; the birds were then tempted down to carry the chunks of meat back to their nests, where the weight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight) of the carcasses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcass) broke them from the cliffs, leaving the Arabians to collect the fallen cinnamon.
