Mythical Beast

As you probably already know, it is very difficult for me to make up a Mythical Beast. So I’m going to think of one…

Alright, I think I’ve got it. This beast does not have a name, yet, hopefully by the end of this entry it will. So that means we will leave the “complex idea” part until that time. The simple impressions are the following: it has long, very long brown hair all over its body. I guess it can have multiple colours based on their environment. Come to think of it, this part of the description reminds me of a Tangela, except with hair instead of vines. Oh, and my beast is much bigger, umm... maybe, let’s say like 8 feet tall, more or less. It has green tentacles coming out from beneath its fur, no wait, I think it should be called hair, not fur. Ok, so hair. So these tentacles are long but you can’t see them when this beast retracts them back beneath its hair. I don’t know how that works, maybe it raps the tentacles around its actual body or something. So it has 4 tentacles like that. The tentacles are greenish-turquoise. They are long and skinny, like maybe an inch or two or three in width, except for the tips, the ends of it of an adult form of this creature would be a foot long, more or less, which are thicker, wider and in kind of pointed at the tip, except it’s not sharp, just thinner, with maybe 8 to 10 suction cups on that part. Sounds like a squid tentacle or something. You can’t see this thing’s face, but it has one, and it can see through its hair, which isn’t hard to do, I would know. The legs took me a lot of thought, but this creature has bird legs. Talons included. These it can retract too. It’s a defensive mechanism.

I have decided on a name. This creature’s name is Polymalia. It comes from the Greek words poly, which means “many”, and malia, which means “hair”. This is the complex idea, Polymalia.

Locke’s natural rights are freedom to live, freedom of choice, and freedom to own property. These rights apply to Polymalia, and we humans have no right to take these rights away from it. We shouldn’t take away its life, the only way that'll happen is if it encounters one of its natural predators and unfortunately looses that battle. It has freedom to make its own choices, we shouldn’t take that away from it either. If it wants to run around in circles, it should run around in circles, if it wants to retract all its limbs and roll down a hill, then so be it. And freedom of property. If Polymalia wants to mark trees around its territory with its talons, then it should keep its ownership of that land, we shouldn’t take it away.