Abominable snowman and the Great grey Man

[zoobyshoe]

Khwit:

http://www.pangeainstitute.us/photogallery/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=51

http://www.pangeainstitute.us/photogallery/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=52[/QUOTE]

Compare to:

classic_human_skull_thm.jpg
Address:http://www.synapseadaptive.com/anatomy/classic_human_skull_thm.jpg

 

[SGT]

Khwit:

http://www.pangeainstitute.us/photogallery/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=51

http://www.pangeainstitute.us/photogallery/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=52

I still fail to see any remarkable difference between Khwit's skull and a classical human skull.
I have seen a documentary about a Mexican family that presents Hypertrichosis Lanuginosa. It is probably at the origin of werewolves myth and may be also correlated to Yeti tales. It is possible that the alleged Yeti woman suffered from that abnormality and was driven away from her home village, being taken by other villagers.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I still fail to see any remarkable difference between Khwit's skull and a classical human skull.

I am an artist and can draw very realistic portraits of people. I pay attention to facial proportions, and khwit's skull just doesn't have the right amount of head above the eyebrows for a normal modern human.

I think if you were to print this one out:

Address:http://www.pangeainstitute.us/photogallery/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=52

and carry it around with you out in a public area where there are lots of people to compare it to, you would see what I'm talking about.

My only point here, is that the forehead of khwit's skull is not normal at all. That being so, doesn't prove anything about why it isn't normal.

I have seen a documentary about a Mexican family that presents Hypertrichosis Lanuginosa. It is probably at the origin of werewolves myth and may be also correlated to Yeti tales. It is possible that the alleged Yeti woman suffered from that abnormality and was driven away from her home village, being taken by other villagers.

Yes, I know about this disorder. It would explain the alleged hairiness, but not Zana's alleged great physical strength.

{Off Topic: the werewolf myth has nothing to do with this disorder either. It derives both from Transylvanian superstitions about the unquiet dead returning in the form of a wolf, and also from incidents in France involving a deranged person, or people, who claimed to be turning into wolves and attacking people. There is also a report by some early explorers (can't recall who) of Native American Shaman demonstrating the ability to take the form of wolves for them.}

 

[SGT]

I am an artist and can draw very realistic portraits of people. I pay attention to facial proportions, and khwit's skull just doesn't have the right amount of head above the eyebrows for a normal modern human.

I think if you were to print this one out:

Address:http://www.pangeainstitute.us/photogallery/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=52

and carry it around with you out in a public area where there are lots of people to compare it to, you would see what I'm talking about.

My only point here, is that the forehead of khwit's skull is not normal at all. That being so, doesn't prove anything about why it isn't normal.

I have noticed that the forehead is lower than a normal human's, but it is not receding like a Neanderthal's. Also the brows are not prominent and the jaw is not strong and protruding.
I agree there is an abnormality, but I find no similarity with a Neanderthal's skull.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I have noticed that the forehead is lower than a normal human's, but it is not receding like a Neanderthal's. Also the brows are not prominent and the jaw is not strong and protruding.
I agree there is an abnormality, but I find no similarity with a Neanderthal's skull.

Well, as long as you see that it doesn't look normal. The jaw looks unusually massive to me, but from the face back the skull doesn't look Neanderthal at all: it lacks the proper length, front to back, and there's no hint of the classic Neanderthal "bun" at the lower rear. What struck me as distinctly "homonid" was the slope of the forehead.

The two experts that Bourtsev quotes who have looked at the skull both found it to be extremely interesting and unusual, but neither brought up the subject of Neanderthal. I've been told that the skeleton would be a much better place to look for distinctive Neanderthal features. I imagine Bourtsev left it in situ and that could be done at some future point.

Neanderthal or not, anything that corresponds to a longstanding band of "wild men" with different features than us, and very hairy, like the thing described in the Russian Officer's story, would be fascinating to me.