Talk:Kanima (Beacon Hills)/@comment-72.230.119.174-20120619043843

Found this "Those were-jaguar representations that have fangs commonly attributed as jaguar fangs can also be explained as toad-like. Several times a year, mature toads shed their skin. As the old skin is shed, the toad will eat it. As the skin is eaten, it hangs out of the toad's mouth and closely resembles the fangs of the were-jaguar. The process of regeneration could have symbolised death and rebirth, with all its attendant religious implications." kanima is in relation to south american were jaguars but this shows that they can have qualities of a toad, which in south America have poisonous (as well as paralysis qualities) so this is most likely where they are coming from this, still I'm trying to find the reflection connection. Anyone got anything?