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...habitants of Kashmir was as advanced and sophisticated as the Indus Valley civilization. The ''Katha-sarit-sagara'', a famous 11th century CE collection of Indian

...order. In the fierce battle between Mothra and Battra, the existing human civilization was destroyed in a tremendous flood. ...Battra might do. As predicted, Battra once again vented his wrath on human civilization. The larval Battra was drawn to the newly hatched incarnation of Mothra, bu

...which they re-discovered and built upon were once part of an antediluvian civilization called 'Lemuria' (Lemuria is actually a hypothetical lost continent in the

...cestors, or the spirits of the land itself, preceding contact with Western civilization.

Gluskap, a culture heromythical figure who gives people the tools of civilization, such as language and fire of the Algonquian-speaking people of North Ameri

*Hippocamps appear with the first Orientalizing phase of Etruscan civilization: they remain a theme in Etruscan tomb wall-paintings and reliefs, where the

...be singular. Examples: "[[:Category:Law|Law]]", "[[:Category:Civilization|Civilization]]"

...ng to help develop various civilizations such as Lemuria, Maya, Inca and a civilization at Machu Picchu. They also were trying to guide humans toward a more spirit

...human hosts to make metal weapons, [[cosmetics]], and other necessities of civilization that had been kept secret in Heaven. But the humans are dying and cry to th

...f the satyrs themselves, as forces in opposition to urbanity, decorum, and civilization itself.

...that the myth must have been known also in Mesopotamia, the main center of civilization between India and Greece, and it becomes probable that the figure Sui-Jen h

* Ivanoff, Pierre (1973). ''Monuments of Civilization: Maya''. New York: Brosset & Dunlap. ISBN 0-448-02020-3.

Fortunately, the Baykok never willingly approaches a human civilization, as the creature itself is extremely reluctant to leave the safety of the f

* [[Classical antiquity|Classical]] [[civilization]] included unique signs and prodigies of [[nature]] in works of [[paradoxog

...bscura'', Thanatos is an island rife with savages and wild beasts where no civilization exists.

He is viewed as the promoter of civilization, a law giver, lover of peace as well as the patron deity of both agricultur Dionysus was the god of fertility, vegetation, the vine, and the pleasures of civilization. Dionysus was pretty much known as the partier of the Greek pantheon and wa

Classic Roman civilization can serve as an example of both aspects. In some periods of Roman history i

...re, as opposed to the [[Tuatha Dé Danann]] who represent the gods of human civilization. Alternatively, they may represent the gods of a proposed pre-Goidelic popu

...dess" figure - perhaps one of the powerful female divinities of the Minoan civilization pantheon, or of some unidentified pre-Greek Pelasgian people.

...e not entirely antagonistic to mankind, however. They are curious of human civilization, and they can understand and speak Japanese (after living a thousand years

...urs came from the first reaction of a non-riding culture, as in the Minoan civilization, to nomads who were mounted on horses. The theory goes that such riders wou

...y]], and [[Modern philosophy]]. Some philosophers have argued that human civilization has passed into a new, "[[post-modern]]" period. Others believe that there ...philosophy|medieval period of philosophy]] came with the collapse of Roman civilization and the dawn of [[Christian philosophy|Christianity]], [[Islamic philosophy

...their camping gear behind, they speedily trekked out of the bush, back to civilization to tell their story to the local authorities.

...osystem, which was disrupted by the climate-altering device of an advanced civilization, 12,000 years ago. However, Battra proved to be a little too enthusiastic a

...at case indicates the breaking of Athenian trinutary relations with Minoan civilization|Minoan Crete.

In the ''Eberron'' campaign setting, dragons are apart from civilization, which is mostly concentrated on the continent of Khorvaire. They live on t

...the cyber-zombie warrior. Magnums was trained as a warrior and sold to the civilization of Mu Arae galaxie's 4th planet. After being killed in battle, his body was

...nibalism a way of the future, remarking "I believe that when man evolves a civilization higher than the mechanized but still primitive one he has now, the eating o ...ulture areas. …The existence of man-eating peoples just beyond the pale of civilization is a common ethnographic suggestion."

|Lizardfolk, civilization

...he Writings of Huysmans, Bataille, Plancon and Tournier (Studies in French Civilization, 29) Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-6619-3

...form of a dragon. In Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence, the post-apocalyptic civilization of Los Angeles worships Belial.

...her foes and whose hands are thereby stained. Allegedly, 7,000 years ago a civilization known as Albion had various rites associated with a Dark Goddess who was kn

...ralia. These Nāgas are said to have developed a subterranean or underwater civilization technologically more advanced than ours and they are thought to possess sup

Bravely, Marius seeks a new civilization in the midst of glittering Constantinople, only to meet with the blood drin

...myths of "Serpents of Wisdom" who enlightened humanity before the dawn of civilization; but it has been noted by mythologists that here "serpent" may only have be

...ogy'' the Kraken is an aquatic myth unit that can be summoned by the Norse civilization.

...all of Moondust]]'', or highly imaginative, set in an [[extraterrestrial]] civilization or a [[Parallel universe (fiction)|parallel universe]], as in [[Isaac Asimo

...nt]]. The [[medieval]] and neo-medieval conception of a "demon" in Western civilization (see the Medieval [[grimoire]] called the ''[[Ars Goetia]]'') derives seaml

...Self Possessed: Deity And Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature And Civilization. Columbia University Press, 2006 (ISBN 0231137486)

...hology and its expansion pack, the phoenix is a myth unit for the Egyptian civilization and sent to the player by the god Thoth. When it is killed, an egg is laid

...has had a substantial influence on the human psyche and the development of civilization as a whole, the personification of Death as a living, sentient entity is a

...wards impulsiveness and violence, and so do not acquire much in the way of civilization.