My 6 yr old daughter came home from school last week and asked me....

[happyjo]

.... Would you rather have a baboons head and a human body... OR a human head and a baboons body??

Seeing as doc is asking some 'interesting' questions, I thought I would too

So, which would you rather be and why???

[Doc Spock]

Whiffey might know this he has an affinity to baboons.

[happyjo]

Doc..
Tut tut... can't you be nice.. just once!!lol

[jiggy-gb]

I would go for the human head in the hope that i would still have the intelligence and modesty to hide my bright red baboon butt with some clothing!

Nice question, i dread to think what they're chatting about at her school though, lol!

[happyjo]

Well..Jiggy, having met her new teacher, I can certainly guess where they got the baboon idea from!!

[China Doll]

I already am one of those options!

[jiggy-gb]

LOL, i sincerely hope the teacher is a man if they're that hairy?!

[happyjo]

Jiggy,,,

Sadly no, teacher is a lady... me thinks?!?

[jiggy-gb]

PMSL! That's fantastic, no wonder her little mind was running away with such great questions then!

What was your answer to her?

[Octavius]

A long time ago (most famously in Egypt) when we had the worship of species of animals, certain animals were combined with the human form. It was always the head of the animal which was united to a human body; the only converse instance of a human head on an animal body, the sphinxes, represented the king and not a god. So it is, that the Egyptian hieroglyphs depicted human bodies with animal heads as a clear adaptation of the animal gods to the later conception of a human god.

Tahuti, was the god of writing and learning, and was the chief deity of Hermopolis. He almost always has the head of an ibis, the bird sacred to him. The baboon is also a frequent emblem of his, but he is never figured with the baboon head. Another baboon-headed god was Hapi (son of Horus).

Also, in the canopic jars, after mummification the lungs of the deceased were often placed within the jar depicting the baboons head. Because the baboon was known for its loud call, it became associated with the jar for the lungs.

So with all this in mind I would go with baboon head, human body. Rather be a god than a king.

[happyjo]

Jiggy...

I would chose a human head and a baboons body.... unforunately my husband might get fed up of me saying...

"Does my ass look big and red in these jeans?" lol

[Psychick]

I think I would opt for the baboons body, seeing as they are usually naked, I like the idea of how much washing I wouldnt have to do!

[neo.]

id like to have a gorilla head