5/5 In this way, old translations of the Bible (for example, 'lamia' in the Vulgate and 'onokentaur' in the Septuagint) kept their demonic nature. Later biblical translations, such as Russian versions, drift toward their night semantics, interpreting it as a night ghost, an animal, a beast, or a bird.

That was when I started learning Czech. Our teacher, who usually taught Americans, decided to showcase the language's complexity using the accusative case. She started, "You know, in some cases, the ending of the word changes, but not always. If it's animate, it changes, otherwise, it isn't. And 'animate' doesn't mean it's alive. For example, the word 'snowman' is not actually alive, but should change." And I can see how that would blow your mind if your native language is English, but since my own language works exactly the same way, I just nodded along.

It's feels surreal that someone is/was dreaming the exact same thing as you.