...lonian art was consistent over many centuries, while those of mythological creatures changed, sometimes drastically, over the years. He also noted that the sirr
...ylonian reconstruction of sauropod remains. The griffin and other mythical creatures may have been based on similar reconstructions by this reasoning. However,
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...er, the Pombero is said to be able to imitate the sounds of various forest creatures. Many witnesses of the Pombero say that he is usually heard whistling befor
The Pombero tends to be the most widespread and pervasive of mythological figures among Guaraní speaking cultures today in the region spanning from
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...ng; Japanese: 鳳凰 hō-ō; Korean: 봉황 bonghwang; Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) are mythological Chinese birds that reign over all other birds.
...Shiniao, the Feng-huang is made of all the most desirable parts of earth's creatures: the snake's neck, the crane's forehead, the dragon's stripes, the fish's t
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...Chimera/Siren hybrid grapple with each other, Godzilla manages to make the mythological beast fall off of a huge cliff into the water below.
...en Sun: The Lost Age, the stronger Grand Chimera. All forms are Mars(Fire) creatures, and have a goat's body, a snake for a tail, and the head of a lion and an
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'''Sylph''' is a faux-mythological creature in the Western tradition. "Sylph" has passed into general language
...the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game, as Air Elemental fairy-like creatures.
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...est he went, glad to lie hidden beneath the ash trees. He watched the wild creatures grazing on the pasture of the glades. Sometimes he would follow them, somet
...cluding the "Rohirrim", mistook the Druedain for [[goblin]]s or other wood-creatures and referred to them as Pukel-men (Goblin-men).
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...e Edda'' Snorri specifies Níðhöggr as a serpent in a list of names of such creatures:
...ngs which live in Yggdrasill. The tree suffers great hardship from all the creatures which live on it. The poem identifies Níðhöggr as tearing at the tree fr
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...his link to the spiritual leadership of society is broken, they lose their mythological qualities and evolve into folk or fairy tales <ref>{{cite book|last=Simpson
...ling|F. W. J. Schelling]]'s ''Introduction to Philosophy and Mythology'', "Mythological representations have been neither invented nor freely accepted. The product
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...ient texts exist in which there is a clear association with those kinds of creatures. However, the Enûma Elish specifically states that Tiamat did give birth t
...role playing game thanks to earlier sources associating Tiamat with later mythological characters, such as Lotan.
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...ght blue in color. Its skin cannot be pierced by any known weapon, and the creatures themselves are invulnerable and possibly immortal, or at least very long-li
...he shadow of a man. This led many scholars of the day to assume that these creatures were the spiritual manifestations of travelers who had perished far from th
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...(also monopods, skiapods, skiapodes, Monocoli) are mythological dwarf-like creatures with a single, large foot extending from one thick leg centered in the midd
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...phorescent glow and is accompanied by demon hounds, a horned owl and other creatures of the Forest.
...ling. This also appears to have happened with another Wild Hunt-associated mythological figure, King [[Herla]].
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Wen Yiduo that jiaolong were emblems of the mythological creators Fuxi and Nüwa, who are represented as having a human's upper body
The mythological ''Shanhaijing'' "Classic of Mountains and Seas" mentions ''jiao'' and ''huj
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The mythological unicorn was a symbol of chivalry with qualities befitting this status, prou
...arwhales, along with the Indian Rhinoceros (which only has one ‘horn’) are creatures that, through travelers’ exaggerations, became the fabled unicorn. The [[
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...ve energy/emotions of humans. It is unclear when these cosmic, amoeba-like creatures first came to earth, but we know they were discovered by shamans in altered
...stance, NHC texts describe how the archons attempted to rape Eve—clearly a mythological rendition of genetic intervention. Such passages appear to support the clai
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...cal animal such as are known from similar medieval European books. All the creatures are living and observable today." (1983, p. 98)
In 1430, Hans Schildtberger recorded his personal observation of these creatures in the journal of his trip to Mongolia as a prisoner of the Mongol Khan. Sc
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...Tolkien's ''Orc''. All these words may derive from a shared Indo-European mythological concept (as Tolkien himself speculated, as cited by Tom Shippey, The Road t
* South, Malcom, ed. ''Mythical and Fabulous Creatures: A Source Book and Research Guide.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.
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...pan, named ''Red Fox'' and ''Hondo Kitsune'', and they are both related to mythological belief in Japasese [[folklore]].
...fox spirit [[ghost]]s, however this doesn’t mean that they are not living creatures, nor that they are not foxes.
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...s otherworldly creatures, collectively referred to as '''fiends'''. These creatures are of wholly evil alignment and hail from the Lower Planes.
...f their own kind through magical means. The results were eyeless reptilian creatures with insectoid traits and neutral evil traits. As the kythons matured, they
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