The arrow on the left is pointing to nothing. I also have the hint that it should perhaps sound like "Er," hence Air.
The middle creature needs to somehow produce an "ic" sound. At first I thought the arrow could be pointing to an small white skin infection common on aquarium fish, called "ick" (really). However, that left little for the other creature to do, and zooming in on the middle creature did not yield any visible skin infections. But since the thing on the right was some kind of 'saur, and there is no "saur" in "Eric" (no offense, Eric), I started thinking of 'saurs with ic, and sure enough, it's an Ichthyosaur.
This clarifies the mysterious religous disposition of the creature on the right, for it is a Theosaur.
I have spent the last several days pondering the "life" of the theosaur, and Kirsten's clue that it is prehistoric. It is unclear whether it would consider itself to be truly prehistoric, or to have been contemporaneously created as a fossilized relic of a past that never existed. Its own life is a paradox it can only resolve through faith.
Alas, I never could figure out the Theosaur, mostly because until I looked it up a second ago, I thought ichthyosaur had a hard "T" sound, not a softer "th" sound.
Regardless, I like to imagine the theosaur preaching the end days and then dying with a smirk on its face when the asteroid hit the earth.
I'm a few days behind, but I just e-mailed Kirsten my (correct) solution, and you can all choose to believe me or not that I figured it out before reading the solution.
However, I did need the hint - I thought that the swimmy thing was a dolphin or porpoise, and I thought that the "ic" in Eric was somehow going to come from the "rex" in the tyranosaurus. Ah well.
Anyway, the real reason I'm writing is because I want a picture of the neighbor's pet caribou. Please provide :-)
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The arrow on the left is pointing to nothing. I also have the hint that it should perhaps sound like "Er," hence Air.
The middle creature needs to somehow produce an "ic" sound. At first I thought the arrow could be pointing to an small white skin infection common on aquarium fish, called "ick" (really). However, that left little for the other creature to do, and zooming in on the middle creature did not yield any visible skin infections. But since the thing on the right was some kind of 'saur, and there is no "saur" in "Eric" (no offense, Eric), I started thinking of 'saurs with ic, and sure enough, it's an Ichthyosaur.
This clarifies the mysterious religous disposition of the creature on the right, for it is a Theosaur.
I have spent the last several days pondering the "life" of the theosaur, and Kirsten's clue that it is prehistoric. It is unclear whether it would consider itself to be truly prehistoric, or to have been contemporaneously created as a fossilized relic of a past that never existed. Its own life is a paradox it can only resolve through faith.
Alas, I never could figure out the Theosaur, mostly because until I looked it up a second ago, I thought ichthyosaur had a hard "T" sound, not a softer "th" sound.
Regardless, I like to imagine the theosaur preaching the end days and then dying with a smirk on its face when the asteroid hit the earth.
I'm a few days behind, but I just e-mailed Kirsten my (correct) solution, and you can all choose to believe me or not that I figured it out before reading the solution.
However, I did need the hint - I thought that the swimmy thing was a dolphin or porpoise, and I thought that the "ic" in Eric was somehow going to come from the "rex" in the tyranosaurus. Ah well.
Anyway, the real reason I'm writing is because I want a picture of the neighbor's pet caribou. Please provide :-)
Greg
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