Jewish Dinosaurs

Growing up I watched and enjoyed a lot of animated movies, who hasn't? It's amazing how when you look back at them later they have different meanings. Case in point, The Land Before Time. If you haven't seen it, you clearly have crap parents. It is the story of an orphaned brontosaurus who leads a rag-tag group of prepubescent herbivorous dinosaurs to a promised land filled with foliage with which they may escape extinction. Spoiler alert!: Dinosaurs eventually do go extinct.

Littlefoot leading rag-tags

The Land Before Time, which incidentally is an inappropriate title considering time did exist for several billion years before the story takes place, loosely follows the formation of the nation-state Israel. For example, the dinosaurs are starving and near extinction which mirrors the atrocities of the Holocaust. The child dinosaurs are constantly hunted by vicious tyrannosaurs named Sharptooth who is definitely a Nazi. It is only after the fall of Sharptooth, literally he falls to his death, that they find the Great Valley and reunite with their families.

What made me realize all this is the symbolic leaf that the main character Littlefoot carries with him. It is a leaf aptly referred to as a "tree star". This is a clear reference to the Star of David which has some cultural importance to the Jewish faith which I don't feel like googling at the moment.

Littlefoot's tree star

Perhaps, the most heart warming aspect of the story is the friendship which is formed between Sarah, which is Hebrew for princess and the name of Abraham's wife in the Old Testament, and Littlefoot. Sarah is a triceratops whose three horns represent the holy trinity of the Christian faith. She lives by the maxim that three-horns (Christians) don't don't talk to long-necks (Jews). Throughout their journey the two form a friendship which allows them to overcome Sharptooth and find the Great Valley.

I know what your asking, where are the Muslim dinosaurs? And there are not any Muslim dinosaurs in this one, but there have been like twelve subsequent straight to video sequels so maybe Muslims' are in one of those.