"The moon sets," Kaa said. "Is there yet light enough to see?"
From the walls came a moan like the wind in the tree-tops— "We see, O Kaa."
"Good. Begins now the dance—the Dance of the Hunger of Kaa. Sit still and watch."
Kaa and the Bandar-log (c) Rudyard Kipling
From the walls came a moan like the wind in the tree-tops— "We see, O Kaa."
"Good. Begins now the dance—the Dance of the Hunger of Kaa. Sit still and watch."
Kaa and the Bandar-log (c) Rudyard Kipling
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We be of one blood, thou and I.
That a fact though because in real life, female breed Pythons are high in popularity from India than the male breed.
If you ask me, if there was anyone that should have been female, it should have been Bagheera. He is already female in many translations of the books (and I guess the 1967 Soviet animated version really popularized the concept) and he was very warm, caring and empathetic and had a very honeyed voice and was kind of a "motherly" figure to Mowgli. It certainly would be something else than the self-inflated babysitter we got in the Disney remake.
Also, female pythons are not more popular in India. Or any place for that matter, especially since the sexual dimorphism is hard to spot on pythons (though female snakes are usually slightly longer than males. If I'm not mistaken, male Indian pythons usually grow about 10 ft while females usually are about 12 ft. But Kaa was 30 ft long in the books and was able to hypnotize and was more than 100 years old, so the character isn't exactly grounded to reality). In fact, from what I've heard, males are a pretty popular choice since they tend to be more gentle than females, while females tend to be pretty impatient and aggressive, especially during mating seasons.
The first jungle book movie Kaa looks like some kind of Mutant Frog thing.
If someone somewhere would make a movie or TV show that was actually true to the actual stories I believe it would be a huge hit. Most people know of "The Jungle Book" only from Disney. What a shame!
Disney told his crew to throw Kipling's book away when making the '67 movie and that's what everyone has done every since. I think he had a problem with snakes as good guys.
But anyway, this is an **excellent** depiction of the events in "Kaa's Hunting." The book is full of great scenes that could be pictured like this.
I'm simply left dumbfounded. Lovely details and all expressions or different poses.
hooray by the snake-hero!
Book Kaa is awsome,
I think Mickey mouse gave him too much LSD.
Kaa only goes to eat them.