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The Sahara: a green and pleasant land

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Is There a Spiritual Meaning to Giraffes?

The sand people of the calahari, to this day, an depict giraffes not because they're giraffes, but because they have spiritual significance for the people. It could be that for them, the giraffes represented abundance, plenty enough to eat, and had some spiritual significance. But that's speculation. And so i just speculate that it's quite likely that the people who depicted these giraffes five or six thousand years ago or more.

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