Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24439517-20140624050407/@comment-186.155.134.237-20140627002515

As someone said before, the Canaima in the real wolrd mythology can take both Jaguar, Anachonda,Alligator forms, basically any letal animal form but is just common to said i is a werejaguar as it is the most depicted,in fact, this creature is not even a shapeshifter is an revenge/evil spirit,so i dont see the problem with it being like it was depicted on the series.

On the other hand i actually believe Jeff wasnt thinking about that, after all he said he based the Kanima appereance in Set, the Snake  God of Conan the Barbarian, that mean is more a creature from the Germanic folkore. I think he just didnt find any real myth of a reptile-like shapeshifter or of a vengeful reptilian creature so he took the one of the Kanima and try to mix it with the reptilian look. If you see the first appereances of the Kanima had scales similar to Jaguar spots,and i thing the costume had more yellow on it but then it become all gray-greenish. With all the thing of the poison and the Alpha form wings it ended being more a Teenwolf original creature that something taken from a myth, the only thing remaining of it was the thing of the vengenance

Maybe he just made the reference of the jaguar to point out humans dont know to much about the supernatural world (like in the case of the lycaon myth) or that after all it is a "myth" and tht real life (in the show offcourse) is very different. To that point i dont  thing that the idea of using the Nahual/Werejaguar as an enemy hs even crossed his mind, so he didnt saw the big problem

But i really hope they give us a more cannonical explanation for this in the show