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The '''serpopard''' is a fabulous animal known from Ancient Egyptian depictions. ...played an important role in the religious concepts of both Upper and Lower Egypt and are likely to have been designated as animals associated with protectio

...s a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity, and divine authority in ancient Egypt. ...e became the patroness of the Nile Delta and the protector of all of Lower Egypt, so her image was worn by the pharaohs as a head ornament, first as the bod

...tion of) the name given to the live crocodile at Crocodilopolis in Ancient Egypt, which was worshiped as a manifestation of the Egyptian god [[Sobek]] (Gree ...hos Ra (a more common name the creature goes by) means "Pet of Ra", as the Ancient Egyptian word "pet" has a meaning of "son" or "offspring".

...desses, the other, [[Bast (goddess)|Bast]], being the war goddess of Lower Egypt. Consequently it was Sekhmet who was seen as the ''Avenger of Wrongs'', and ...became synonymous with doctors and surgeons during the [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]]. In antiquity, many of Sekhmet's priests were often consid

...ile eggs wherever it finds them. Pierre Belon, who traveled from France to Egypt two-hundred fifty years before Napoleon’s expedition published a narrativ <blockquote>This animal is the mortal enemy of the asp. It is a native of Egypt and when it sees an asp near its place, it runs at once to the bed or mud o

...o ancient Egyptian mythology, was also believed to be the ba of Re, and by Egypt's Late Period, the hieroglyphic sign depicting the bird was used to write t ...yptian name of Osiris). The Bennu was also sometimes associated with Upper Egypt.

In Greek mythology, Callirhoe (or Kallirhoe, Callirrhoe ) (Ancient Greek: Καλλιρό, Καλλιρρόη, or Καλλιρρόης means 'b ...Geryon]] and [[Echidna]] while Chione was her daughter by the river-god of Egypt, Neilus. Meanwhile, to Poseidon, she borne Minyas, founder of Minyan Orchom

...Egypt, where it appears on wall murals. It has also been found figured on ancient coins from Lycia and Pamphylia. ...bird of the sun goddess Amaterasu. The Yatagarasu appears in the Japanese ancient document called the Kojiki (古事記) where it was called upon to choke a

...angers. Apis was the most popular of the three great bull cults of ancient Egypt (the others being the bulls Mnevis and Buchis.) Unlike the cults of most of ...ndation made of wooden planks. Bulls' horns embellish some of the tombs of ancient pharaohs, and the Apis bull was often depicted on private coffins as a powe

...so spelled '''Bastet''', '''Baset''', '''Ubasti''', and '''Pasht''') is an ancient goddess, worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty. The centre of her cu Originally she was viewed as the protector goddess of Lower Egypt, and consequently depicted as a fierce lion. Thus, by the Middle Kingdom sh

-- Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, R. T. Rundle Clark ...slither' existed. A verb root 'pp does at any rate not exist elsewhere in Ancient Egyptian. Apep's name much later came to be falsely connected etymologicall

...''' are mermen from Sirius who, according to some authors, visited Ancient Egypt.

Ancient mythologists placed Abraxas among the Egyptian gods. Abraxas was also the P ...e Gnostic writings of Simon Magus, father of the Gnostics and Basilides of Egypt, an early 2nd-century Gnostic teacher. The Gnostics, a sect of the 2nd cent

* Massey, Gerald. 1907. ''Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World''. Unwin.

The '''Mummy''' is an ancient form of [[revenant]], brought back from the dead by powerful magic. ...ugh one may be hard-pressed to find a living Mummy in any place other than Egypt).

===Ancient Greece and Egypt=== Cynocephaly was familiar to the Ancient Greeks from representations of the Egyptian god [[Hapi]], the son of [[Horu

...re said to live in Africa, in Nubia, Kush, or Ethiopia, generally south of Egypt. The Blemmyes are sometimes confused by ancient writers who describe them sometimes as [[anthropophagi]] (Grk: man eaters),

The Ouroboros, (Ourorboros, Oroborus, Uroboros or Uroborus) is an ancient serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. The ourobor ...of the serpent is believed to have been inspired by the Milky Way, as some ancient texts refer to a serpent of light residing in the heavens.

...snakes as her familiars - sometimes twining around her sacred staff, as in ancient Crete - and they were worshiped as guardians of her mysteries of birth and ...corsetting it and preventing it from flying apart in splinters. In ancient Egypt, the snake biting its tail symbolised the sea as the eternal ring which enc

...the noblest specimen of a combination of the human and animal forms in the ancient works of art; for while the centaurs generally express the sensual and sava ...ying mythology, serves to inform many of the root words connected with the ancient healing arts, e.g. cheiromancy, or the art of divining the will of the gods

...ice to supernatural figures or forces, such as that allegedly practiced in ancient Carthage, is one form; however, many societies only practiced simple infant ...is a boy, keep it, if a girl, discard it." &ndash; Naphtali Lewis, Life in Egypt Under Roman Rule.

...shrines were at Dodona, in Epirus, the land of the oak trees and the most ancient shrine, famous for its oracle, and at Olympia, where the Olympic Games were According to one of the ancient myths of the birth of Zeus, Cronus, fearing that he might be dethroned by o

'''Anubis''' is the Greek name for the ancient [[god]] in [[:Category:Egyptian mythology|Egyptian mythology]] whose hierog Prayers to Anubis have been found carved on the most ancient tombs in Egypt; indeed, the ''Unas'' text (line 70) associates him with the Eye of Horus.

...of the blackened skin bitumen was once thought to be used extensively in ancient Egyptian embalming procedures. ...tion technique, and at around 5,500 years old is older than any comparable Ancient Egyptian mummy. The monks of Palermo in Sicily began mummifying their dead

...en their god Marduk and the monster Tiamat. The Leviathan was believed, by ancient people, to be the cause of solar eclipses. They believed that the sun was c ...his especially included nations warring against Israel such as Assyria and Egypt. (The Bible Knowledge Commentary, Old Testament,1985, SP Publications Inc.

...k spirits known as '''Calicantsars''' have a noticeable resemblance to the ancient satyrs; they have goats' ears and the feet of '''donkeys''' or goats, are c ...the title ''Tracking Satyrs'' (''Ichneutae''), was found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, 1907.

In the Jewish tradition she is identified with [[Lilith]], in Coptic Egypt with [[Alabasandria]], and in Byzantine culture with [[Gylou]], but in vari ...nts on the name of Abyzou appear frequently in charms in languages such as ancient Greek, Hebrew, and Romanian.

*[[Deicide]] ([[Ancient Egyptian religion|Egyptian demonology]]) ...)|Set]] ([[Egyptian mythology]] during the [[Second Intermediate Period of Egypt|Second Intermediate Period]])

...en in some vast fortress, is suggestive of the burial practices of ancient Egypt.

...l Mountains. Biedermann wrote later that it has typological antecedents in ancient Asia, especially in the Assyrian k'rub, which is also the source of the Heb In Ancient Egypt, the griffin was depicted with a slender, feline body and the head of a fal

...as a female. When it was, it symbolized Isis and/or the reigning queen. In Egypt the intellectual faculties ennobled the bestial traits present in the physi The Egyptian sphinx is an ancient iconic mythical creature usually comprised of a recumbent lion &mdash; anim

However in the magical papyri of Greco-Roman Egypt survive several hymns which identify Hecate with Selene and the moon, extol Like many ancient mother or earth-goddesses she remains unmarried and has no regular consort.

===Khemet (Ancient Egypt)=== While the term "devil" is not used in ancient Khemet the term Set, the name of Horus' "enemy" lends itself to the charact

In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, the '''phoenix''' is a mythical bird and asso ===Egypt===

...gic users. Many examples can be found in ancient texts, such as those from Egypt and Babylonia. Where malicious magic is believed to have the power to influ === Ancient times ===

...itualism]], and art. Alchemy has been practiced in Mesopotamia, [[Ancient Egypt]], Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Islamic e ...y was one of the main precursors of modern [[science]]s, and we owe to the ancient alchemists the discovery of many substances and processes that are the main

*Ancient Greeks and Romans were said to place a coin and a small cake in the hands o ...and [[Persephone]]. The three dogs would have represented Cerberus in this ancient temple.

...antiseptic and antibiotic properties originates thousands of years ago in Egypt, where it was believed to possess healing powers. According to one source, ...legend, the Vampire casts no reflection in a mirror. This comes from the ancient belief that the mirror reflects the soul of the one who gazes into it. The

...human body, one for the head, one for the neck, and so on. In present-day Egypt, the ubiquitous jinn are believed to be so densely distributed that acts su ...13:1-2). This idea can also been associated with the depiction of certain ancient gods like Baal, Moloch, the shedu, etc, which were portrayed as bulls, as m

...ife, although, certainly demons per se did not exist specifically in pagan Egypt. ...#943;&#956;&omega;&#957;) appears in the works of [[Plato]] and many other ancient authors, but without the evil connotations which are apparent in the [[Sept

...gi]], were lands where expertise in magic was thought to be prevalent. In Egypt, a large number of magical [[papyrus|papyri]], in [[Greek language|Greek]], ...pean [[colonialism]], which put Westerners in contact with [[India]] and [[Egypt]], re-introduced exotic beliefs to Europeans at this time. [[Hinduism|Hindu

...that dragons are based upon some sort of flying machines possessed by some ancient, unknown culture. Both of these hypotheses are widely considered to be pseu ...serpents and mentioned reports of flying serpents flying from Arabia into Egypt but being fought off by Ibises.

...while the name was anciently thought to originate from the place Nysa, in Egypt (now Ethiopia). ...e roots of literary art in general and the art of tragedy in particular to ancient Dionysian mysteries. His views were expressed in the treatises ''The Hellen

...d'', worshipped in the city of Mendes, the Greek name of ancient Djedet in Egypt, as a he-goat, imagined as “copulator in Anep and inseminator in the dist

...is is a more general philosophical skepticism towards any document whether ancient or modern, that appears to give credence to the possibility of the occurren * In the [[Hebrew Bible]], [[Plagues of Egypt|plague]]s and other misfortunes are described as signs of [[God]]'s anger o

...the creature’s ears are grotesquely stretched and pointed. The Vampire of ancient times is a horrifying monster, a far cry from the modern interpretation of ...have debated exactly why the Vampire needs blood for a very long time. In ancient times, people recognized that blood is the source of life. To take another

...or post-exilic. Nevertheless we may well suppose that [[polytheist]]s in [[ancient Israel]] believed in superhuman beings other than God, but that the [[Bibli ...gel to protect the [[Hebrews|Hebrew people]] after their [[exodus]] from [[Egypt]], to lead them to the [[promised land]], and to destroy the hostile tribes

Cannibalism was documented in Egypt during a famine caused by the failure of the Nile to flood for eight years ...by the priest to the faithful. The accusations of cannibalism made against ancient Christians may reflect earlier versions of such beliefs but should also be