Talk:Sea goat

Removing dubious mythology material ("Pricus" and Chronos)

I'm removing material from this article, and the equivalent at Capricornus. The text in question was added to Capricornus a couple years ago [1] and mostly copied over to sea goat when the article was made earlier this year. I suspect it to be unreliable for the following reasons:

• The sites linked don't look like particularly reliable sources, and don't cite any sources at all themselves. One of them [2] presents the story as a "lost legend" and a linked page [3] refers to the story being "discovered in later writings," but with no specifics or sources. An earlier version of the page [4] attributes it to a text called the "Scriptures of Delphi" [5]. I can find nothing that looks reliable about these scriptures, which also include a "Vampire Bible," and the current version of the Gods and Monsters page about them is more skeptical [6].
• I can't find any reference to a sea goat named "Pricus" on Google Books, except an encyclopedia of mythical creatures that appears quite recent [7]. The name Pricus does appear elsewhere, but only as a human name or as part of a taxonomic name (and some OCR errors).
• Nor can I find references to Chronos creating or fathering a sea goat.
• These studies of constellation myths discuss Capricorn in some detail but say nothing about "Pricus", Chronos (including variant spellings), time reversal, or a whole species of sea goats that became land goats [8] [9]
• The concept of "turning back time" seems very modern and unfitting to Greek mythology (though I admit this is largely my intuition and could be wrong, and I would welcome any corrections). I can't find a reference to Chronos having that specific power in myth, either.

I think it'd be wise to search through other Greek mythology-related pages, such as the topics mentioned here [10] for any other dubiously sourced material. And the same for vampire-related pages, possibly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.74.64.13 (talk) 20:41, 3 July 2020 (UTC)