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Welcome to '''Monstropedia''', the original open-source bestiary. The mission of Monstropedia is to create the ultimate online media library about monsters, gathering information and documents from the earliest myths onwards to the present day, developing a coherent set of methods to analyse each creature and attaching current theories about their existence.<br/><br/> Be sure to check out the Help pages to get started! You can also use the [http://www.monstrous.com/forum Forum] for questions or general help.
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Monstropedia provides an extensive classification of monsters following a number of semantic criteria. For instance,a query into our database would gather all monsters having water as their primary element.
Monstropedia offers the traditional approach by analyzing all the monsters according to their lore of origin. Japanese yokai are specific monsters that derive from Japanese mythology.

Monstropedia is an electronic encyclopedia which aims at listing all monsters that belong to mythology, art and modern popular culture (games, comics, films).

The word Monstropedia is derived from two classical concepts: the Latin verb monstro, "to show", or "to point out"; and ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία (enkýklios paideía) which is the Greek word for "encyclopedia". The name has hence a dual symbolic meaning:

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