I can't believe no one has noticed and written about it yet - but when Queen of Sheba arrives to Jerusalem, her servants bring some gifts for Solomon, and they bring llamas! Now Llamas live only in South America!
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What an idiocy...
Now Llamas live only in South America!Yes, they live only in South America now. But the Queen of Sheba brought Solomon indigenous South Arabian llamas - which, sadly, are now extinct.
But the Queen of Sheba brought Solomon indigenous South Arabian llamas - which, sadly, are now extinct.
What????? Are you high, man? None of the 4 known modern llama species - and by modern, I include the Pleistocene era (between 3 million and 11700 years ago) as well as our current Holocene era (from the last glaciation until today) - NONE of these 4 species, I was saying, has ever roamed the Old World in the wild, all right, Sam?
I really flip out when someone writes falsehoods and purely ho....tty statements just to impress the gallery, given the easy access to reliable sources, it's purely, utterly, totally inexcusable !
And this hits closer to home than many would think.... All lamoids (i.e. the four modern llama species (vicuñas, guanacos, alpacas and the nominal species = the domestic llama)) originate in fact from western North America and migrated to South America 3 million years ago approx.
Not only that, Buster, but ALL camelids (yes, that includes 2- (Bactrian camels) and one-humped (dromedaries) camels ) originate from North America !!!
So before adding new tales to the already 1,001 existing Arabian stories/nights (isn't that enough?), check your brain before letting your fingers hit the keyboard!
Unless, of course, you were joking (something I don't see in the smiley that you added to your comment here ), but then, you should make it clearer.
Like this one, which translates my state of mind after reading the fuit of your ranting: .
Peace, clown!
Unless, of course, you were joking (something I don't see in the smiley that you added to your comment here ), but then, you should make it clearer.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpan
Sir, please accept my apologies, but you must admit that writing is among the worst vehicle for the deadpan type of humor, unless you express it better (i.e. a wee bit clearer). See? You hit the biologist nerve in me (which is exposed to the surface, as it is my profession :-)
That being said, I really get irritated when movie directors make that kind of mistakes, because they are so obvious. It just reflects sloppy work, that's what it does !! And the other poster pointed out the macaws - birds all exclusively originating from South America - which appear very commonly in historic movies (even recent ones) depicting Africa (of course, contemporary movies can be excused, as anybody can have his/her own macaw pet nowadays. But showing macaws in a scene from a movie, say, about Livingstone and Stanley ? That's the ultimate moronic thing to do.
I have not seen the movie, but errors like this have me worry that the rest reflects such carelessness for facts... I know, I know, movies are not about facts, but I'm sure you get my point. It's a question of mental attitude towards the truth, a matter of honesty.
Well, yes, there's always a very fine balance between making the humour invisible and making it too obvious. It is a very subtle thing.
Gore Vidal related an anecdote about the time he was working on "Ben-Hur" in Rome and had to persuade the art director to remove the tomatoes which the set-dresser had misguidedly placed in the set of the kitchen of a 1st Century Judaean household...
Call me Ishmael...
That being said, I really get irritated when movie directors make that kind of mistakes, because they are so obvious.So obvious, yet like a couple of other posters above I didn't even notice "them llamas" either.
I have not seen the movie, but errors like this have me worry ...I always get worried when posters who admit they haven't seen a movie, begin venting their collective spleens about aspects of that movie.🐭 share
Were audiences at the time sophisticated enough to know that llamas really didn't belong?
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What other have said response is true
Regardless it is a myth that Columbus "Discovered" America and everyday we find more and more evidence of limitless trans Atlantic and even transpacific trade from the Ancient World.
Some think the Ohir that Solomon and Hiram sent ships to for Gold was ancient Peru, thou it's most likely in Arabia.
"It's not about money.... It's about sending a Message..... Everything Burns!!!"
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It's just a movie. Please don't be so uptight.
It was just a way to show how wealthy the queen was and how she had access to all sorts of exotic resources from around the world.