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Re: Erlikosaurus



Graeme Worth wrote:

> According to my refs it derives from Erlik, the king of the dead in
> one of the mythologies (can't remember which, off hand). Maybe we
> should be checking the spelling of this -
 
Erlik:

"In Siberian mythology the spirit of evil, who was sometimes thought of 
as the primeval man fallen from grace. In Lapp mythology he was 
always 'lord of the underworld', a monstrous guardian of departed souls."

There is also a fascinating story about Erlik's genesis in my dictionary 
of mythology. But I don't want to digress.

Emmanuelle.