Warning! Some book spoilers! It has often been said that nature is cruel. All life on Earth is believed to have evolved from the same single-celled organism. Over the course of 3.5 Billion years those single cells, diversified, multiplied, became multiple celled organisms, developed organs, bones, and limbs. Life eventually filled every niche on the planet, each species learning to survive in its own way while constantly being tested by mother nature. But the cruelest fact about life has always been that in order to survive it must feed upon itself. Life consumes life. And there are many ways of doing it.
A butcherbird is a type of bird found mostly in African and Eurasian countries. It is a type of bird known as a Shrike. Once a Shrike captures its prey it impales the body upon sharp thorns or spikes. This allows the Shrike to bit by bit, tear the flesh from the creature it has captured, eating it in small chunks. These birds are also known to be territorial, they defended their claimed areas against rivals. The Idea of a Shrike has been used in fiction multiple times. But Dan Simmons’ Hyperion in my opinion makes the most interesting use of the attributes of the Shrike bird, within a fictional creature.
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I put a comment here weeks ago about why I think Shrike is a lot like one of the Mesopotamian demonology vampire parasites.
There's a lot of hints towards parasitic flesh eating thorn trees of Madagascar.
Someone said they were fiction but that was to leave a cold trail because everyone of those plants ever found was incinerated. It's a plant. They grow back.
Do a search on bodies found in trees unexplainably.
Even the Necronomicon is edited over 4 times and you can't go near that original copy because it's so spiritually volatile.unexplainable.
Closest thing I saw in film would be a spore plant that causes a zombie fungal on the brain 🧠 in the film The girl with a the Gifts. Other than The Ruins.
Reality would be a list of hanging plants or venus fly traps. Still carnivorous.
But the discussion of a human body changing into a vampiric nervous system by atrophy of the heart has already been proven. Alukah, Ambrogio, Vlad Teppesh, Elizabeth the Second (16th great grand niece of Drakula), Jure Grando…
Unroyal decrepit blood lines through a history of trangressive choices by principles. Eating human flesh and blood. Over to HR87-91. And the Adrenochrome pedo vampire coven (Catholic Diocese) erecting Molech in Rome. John Jay Study Report and their (The Vatican's) covering up of trespassing on children…because grown men hunt what harms children. And this 🐍 🧛♂️ 🍷 is Alukah holding Alkuhl.
The effects of UV rays (Sunlight) on bacteria and pathogens explains why vampires would burst into flames in sunlight. The only reason that changed is because of yr 1 (Jesus).
Forgive them Father/ Lord….
Over to definition of Brilliance. Jesus taking the title of the sun/Son of God (Ascension).
And Lucifers transgression to Satan… No Brilliance. Absence of light.
Shrike looks like he fell out of The Lost in Space reboot. Spider Dr.
They also used the name Shrike in Mortal Engines. A resurrected biomechanical ghoul like soldier. Looks like steam punk but there is no steam.
Obviously the entire story and paraphrased. But Cain has a vampire history as well (Cain & Abel). Cursed by his father Adam and other Arch angels for what he did to his brother and refusing God's mercy… 3 times.
Using and repeatedly is done often in military, legal and Pentagon documents. Saying someone is illiterate for using and twice doesn't really make you right.
And after the IJM came out and HR87-91… the documentary of Above Majestic came out. All the serpent people, Draconians & Silurians are the issue. None of this is fiction. Documentary means NON Fiction. I'm not a shill I enjoy watching them burn.
Hyperion Cantos? Is he scarier than Stelio Cantos?
"The amount of philosophical quotes in the comment section is so quoted, that I quoted this just to quote something." – Some Random
Interesting how this is basically based off of the beings that are truly responsible to things like the evil and corrupting Roman Catholic religion
Boy, that shrike is such a prick.
Fedmahn Kassad disagrees with your assessment of the Shrike.
I wonder if the Shrike… if the humanoid form you see as it shifts around, with its constantly moving spikes and blades and panels… if that's not ALL of it. That that's just the part that can be seen or is permitted to be seen, while the rest of it exists 'outside'. Like, that it's multidimensional, but the 'humanoid' is the piece it shoves into normal reality to do… whatever it does. And when it warps around, its just retracting that part from view in one spot and putting out another or the same one elsewhere.
So the Sci fi equivalent to a Cenobyte? Good to know
Checkout some warhammer 40k lore if you like stuff like this, warhammer makes this look like child play
Checkout some warhammer 40k lore if you like stuff like this, warhammer makes this look like child play
For me the most terrifying would be the flood from doctor who, to turn a substance as mandatory to our survival as water itself into the most deadly substance is horrifying ans the way you become possessed and warped by whatever thing is in the water chills me to the bone
Sounds like the dude from old country for old man we never know why he does what he does
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Sounds like infanant sukiomi
I've read this book after watching one of this review. That alien is not terrifying or even scary and book is a waste of time. Thank you and good night.
I think the flood is scarier
Need to see the Shrike on the big screen
Woooow, so terrifying…..
nd as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Heb 9:27)
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Acts 17:30)
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:5)
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)
This monster is similar to the Giant Tree in Darkwood…victims goes in a dream/simulation/hallucination-like state where they live in an area surrounded by wall of trees, lost their memories, fighting for survival and must stay in the light as night is dangerous, unimaginable things happens. People who died in the dream world are awake but possessed by the tree, meanwhile, people who are able to recollect their memories by collecting fragments of memories/remembering things that looks familiar in the dream world and survived through every danger, gets to wake up but not possessed by the Tree but to get out of the Tree is another problem. In the game, we were able to get a flamethrower by a guy who got possessed, hugging it like a pillow. After that, we burn the tree, sadly not everyone made it out, including the main character.
The scariest Sci-fi creature would be one that can probably become real.
The Flood: Allow us to introduce ourselves
I know the good lad by the name of Pinhead. Charming personality sharp head.
as someone who has read a few science horror and grimdark stories…this is honestly not even close to the most terrifying thing in scifi lore i have come across…its quite par for the course actually…
Ahem. Warhammer 40k
A dark humanoid figure always lurks in the dark and you never gets to see it straight but exsists in your peripherals questioning your reality and the most menacing part of it is that it never attacks and yet your not sure if it ever will. just keeps watching you from a distance and at times when your unaware or asleep it slowly floats and hover around you.
There is nothing worse than man
The Shrike is a sort of anti-villain. It's not cruel, it just is. Similar to Barker's cenobites.
is he single 🥴
I'm currently listening too the audio book versions rn. I'm on The Fall of Hyperion and it's fantastic.
Highly recommend this book or the audiobook, its incredible
So if this invincible hyperadvanced being catches you, it basically puts you in hell (excruciating pain for eternity) and doesn't have any apparent motivations, just does what it does.
Terrifying? Not even scary.
The most terrifying creature in science fiction is such a bold and wrong claim. But I will admit the idea of such a creature is enough to bring chills.
But could he beat Saitama
You think this is bad, you should see my Ex wife.
After watching this video a while back, I picked up Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion at a local bookstore and they’ve proved to be great books. Thanks!
Anyone else get this recommended and put it on as white noise?
i think scorn got some inspiration from this
Warhammer creatures let us introduce ourselves
Did you write this?
What an awfully subjective title.