Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-98.193.9.109-20140722035026/@comment-5690373-20140728041712

LadyX wrote:

Neilandio wrote:

Grahamburglar wrote: Well, given that in real world mythology the kanima is absolutely nothing at all like what we got in the show in any respect (except that in some myths they serve a master to mete out justice) I'm going to say.... yes, yes he could. Real world mythology? Can you point me to some these myths? Because as far as I was concerned the kanima was completely made up for the show.

Also, if he is relaed to fire he could be an Ifrit. Check out this, under Argentina and Bolivia, http://www.therianthropes.com/south_america.htm

There used to be something on Wikipedia about them too, but it can't seem to find it right now. That site doesn't seem very reliable though, there are plenty of errors on it, to list a few:

1. Mexico and Panama are not part of south america.

2. The lobizón is not a fox like werewolf, it's literally a variation of the werewolf mythos.

3. President Yrigoyen didn't pass a law turning all children thought to be werecreatures into his godchildren. He merely accepted the requests of a couple of Russian immigrants who thought that to avoid their seventh son/daughter to become a werewolf/witch the president had to be the godfather of said son/daughter. The law that turns any seventh son/daughter into the godchildren of the president was passed in 1974.

4.They confuse Hipólito Yrigoyen with Bernardo Irigoyen, the latest was never a president (neither alive by the 1920s).

5. "In the 1920s, Hipolito Irigoyen came to power backed by the Cabal[...]" What the heck is the Cabal? Does he mean the Capitol (capital in spanish)?

The most reliable source I found about the myth of the Kanima is this page which makes a collection of already established myths about werejaguars. It's worth noting that most of these myths are similar to what is known in contemporanean culture as a Skin Walker. What I really want to know is where Jeff came with the word Kanima.