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Ki-lin

Asian Unicorn (from: http://stud-www.uni-marburg.de/~Vigier/unicorn.html)

A mythical being of Chinese mythology, comparable with the western unicorn.

Ki-lin personifies all that is good, pure, and peaceful. It lives in paradise and only visits the world at the birth of a wise philosopher.

The unicorn, which can become one thousand year old, is portrayed as a deer with one horn, the tail of an ox, the hooves of a horse, and a body covered with the scales of a fish. It is one of the four Ssu Ling.

from: http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/articles/u/unicorn.html

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