...nd is always represented as contending with and conquering the lion or the bull. However, there is no text that relates with this god which has also been a
[[Category: Assyrian mythology]]
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'''Oro''' is a powerful Orisha in Yoruba mythology.
...es from daybreak till noon, while the men parade the streets, whirling the bull-roarer, dancing, singing and beating druims and killing all stray dogs and
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...r its prey like a wheel, thus looking somewhat like the ouroboros of Greek mythology, or [[Tsuchinoko]] in Japan.
...o the undertaker's. Hoop snakes can kill a 200-pound man, or a 2,000-pound bull. In one version of the myth, the snake straightens out at the last second,
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...of a similar creature named the zhi, and the Evenks also talked of a large bull with a single horn in the forehead. It is possible that Elasmotherium survi
[[Category:Persian mythology]]
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...nd '''Lindwurm''' in Germany) is a large serpent-like dragon from European mythology and folklore.
...some young men tied a bull to a chain, and when the lindworm swallowed the bull, it was hooked like a fish, and killed. In 1335, when the skull of a wooly
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While his Semitic predecessor was depicted as a man or a bull, the demon Baal was in grimoire tradition said to appear in the forms of a
[[Category: Persian mythology]]
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...orse in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology.
...art include the "Leokampos" (fish-tailed lion), "Taurokampos" (fish-tailed bull), "Pardalokampos" (fish-tailed leopard), and "Aigikampos" (fish-tailed goat
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...which were portrayed as bulls, as men with the head of a bull, or wearing bull horns as a crown.
[[Category:Christian mythology]][[Category:Demons]]
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Emma Bull.
[[Category:Irish mythology]]
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'''Aušrinė''' is the goddess of the Morning Star (Venus) in the Lithuanian mythology. She is the goddess of beauty and youth and the opposite of Vakarinė, the
...from Northern Wind, Joseph went to the island, stayed away from a guardian bull and became Aušrinė’s servant who cares for the cattle. The story also d
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...here Krishna was staying with his foster-parents. After Krishna killed the bull demon Arishta - dispatched by Kamsa, the divine sage Narada confirmed to Ka
*''The Vishńu Puráńa: a system of Hindu mythology and tradition'' by Horace Hayman Wilson (1868). Fitzedward Hall. ed
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In ancient Greek mythology, the '''Empusa''' (Εμπουσα — Empousa) was a female supernatural mo
:Xanthias: Like everything by turns. Now it's a bull: now it's a mule: and now the loveliest girl.
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In the Olympian Pantheon of classical [[Greek Mythology]], '''Hêra''' was queen of the Gods and Goddesses, as well as wife and sis
...dark demon of fear. But on Cyprus, very early archaeological sites contain bull skulls that have been adapted for use as masks.
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...e, tortoise-like feet, and a green color. It was the size of a large ox or bull.
...survive the Flood despite its exclusion from the Ark. It was the size of a bull, and it had a snake's head and a round body buried under long green fur. Th
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The '''Morrígan''' is a dark goddess from Irish mythology.
...rígan, glossed as equivalent to Alecto of the Greek Furies, appears to the bull in the form of a crow and warns him to flee. Cúchulainn defends Ulster by
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'''Centaurs''' are human-horse hybrids in Greek mythology and the followers of the wine god Dionysus.
...he Greeks took the constellation of Centaurus, and also its name "piercing bull", from Mesopotamia, where it symbolized the god Baal who represents rain an
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...ing to make atonement for himself and his house and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering."
*Dyckman, JM & Cutler JA ''Scapegoats at Work: Taking the Bull's-Eye Off Your Back'' (2003)
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...accounts of the sacrifice to Cronus and from the tale of the Minotaur; No bull-headed Phoenician god was known. Milton wrote that Moloch was a frightening
...legends, Moloch was represented as a huge bronze statue with the head of a bull. The statue was hollow, and inside there burned a fire which colored the Mo
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'''Asmodai''' or '''Asmodeus''' is a demon in Jewish mythology.
According to Wierus, he had three heads, that of a bull, a man, and a ram. He also has a serpent's tail, the feet of a goose, and f
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...y part in the fighting. But hearing what Vighasa had done, he ascended his bull and came out to fight. He killed Vighasa and rescued the gods from the asur
[[Category: Hindu mythology]]
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