...e-horned" sometimes rendered as "Whitehorn") was an extremely fertile stud bull owned by king Ailill of Connacht.
...lost. After seeing that Medb was determined to see Finnbhennach fight the bull-calf's sire.
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...the '''Cretan Bull''' was either the bull that carried away Europa or the bull Pasiphae fell in love with, giving birth to the Minotaur.
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'''Sarangay''' is a creature that looks like a bull with a large muscular body and has a jewel on its ears.
Sarangay is described to be a half bull and half man and the Philippine counterpart of the Greek [[minotaur]].
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...'Donn Cúailnge''', the Brown Bull of Cooley, was an extremely fertile stud bull over whom the Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) was fought.
...lost. After seeing that, Medb was determined to see Finnbhennach fight the bull-calf's sire.
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The '''Rabisha Lake Monster''' or '''Water Bull''' is a legendary hybrid in the folkore of Bulgaria.
The Rabisha Lake Monster has the head of a bull, the body of giant, strong man, and the tale of fish.
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...bh Uisge''' ( "water-bull" in Gaelic) is a spectral water-bull in Scottish mythology.
[[Category:Scottish mythology]]
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...ich rides atop the giant whale called [[Liwash]] who also supports another bull called [[Bahamut]] in some versions of one medieval Islamic cosmology. Kuyu
[[Category:Middle Eastern mythology]]
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In Sumerian and Akkadian (Babylonian and Assyrian) mythology, '''Gallu''' (also called '''galla''') or '''Telal''' is a great underworl
:Telal, the bull which pierces, the very strong bull, the bull which
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Baphomet has the appearance of a 12' tall ogre with a bull's head, a bovine tail, and broad, stubby hands and feet. His body is covere
According to ''Monster Mythology'', Baphomet is increasingly attracting a following amongst minotaurs. He se
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'''Niu Mo Wang''' (牛魔王) is a [[yaoguai]] with the head of a bull that appears in ''Journey to the West'', a Chinese novel was written and pu
...f Niu Mo Wang, only instrument able to extinguish fire. Finally, the demon-bull is overcome with the assistance of Nezha. Niu Mo Wang has a son named Hong
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...places in Iceland: a dragon in Vopnafjörður, the bird in Eyjafjörður, the bull in Breiðafjörður and the giant in the south.
...nd four landvættr can still be seen in the Icelandic coat-of-arms: a troll-bull, troll-eagle, dragon, and handsome giant.
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...en he got splashed and the songaomby ate him." The songaomby is like a fat bull with no horns and uncloven hooves. Some scientists believe that its sprayin
[[Category: Madagascar mythology]]
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...rid bull man considered as a protective demon in Mesopotamian and Akkadian mythology.
...in Akkadian, šêdu. In Akkadian, he is also called Gud-elim, or "The Horned Bull".
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The most famous is a sea monster with a horned head like a bull or an oni, and a body like a gigantic crab or spider which is said to lurk
...ll fiend with four octopus tentacles on its back, and "Abare Ushioni" is a bull monster.
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The Indrik is described as a gigantic bull with a head of a horse, and an enormous horn in his snout. The Russian folk
[[Category: Russian mythology]]
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...e mask design, representing a jealous female demon. It possesses two sharp bull-like horns, glaring eyes, and a leering mouth split from ear to ear.
[[Category: Japanese mythology]]
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...the bull which Siva rides and the gate keeper of Siva and Parvati in Hindu mythology.
...a white bull usually represented of colossal size. The white color of the bull symbolizes purity and justice.
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...It is said that Petsuchos Ra wore a crown made to look like the horns of a bull with a circular piece in the middle. Petsuchos Ra used this circular piece
[[Category: Egyptian mythology]]
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...ythology, '''Apis''' or '''Hapis''' (alternatively spelt Hapi-ankh), was a bull-deity worshiped in the Memphis region.
...e the cults of most of the other Egyptian deities, the worship of the Apis bull was continued by the Greeks and after them by the Romans, and lasted until
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An [[Aatxe]] is an evil spirit in the shape of a red or fiery bull which, the Basques believe, leaves its cave on stormy nights to wreak havoc
The name Aatxe translates into English as ''young bull'' or simply ''calf.'' It is sometimes called '''Aatexegorri''' or ''Etsai''
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...the shape of any animal he wants, but he usually appears in the shape of a bull with a man's head and chains in his hands.
[[Category: Belgian mythology]]
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The '''Camahueto''' is a fabulous creature in the mythology of Chiloé (Chiloé Archipelago, in the south of Chile).
The Camahueto has the form of a calf or bull, with a small horn on its forehead, similar to a unicorn. There are other r
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...the herd and never returns to its grave. It then resides in the horns or a bull or the hind legs of a milk cow. It feeds first on the fattest cattle and th
[[Category:Bulgarian mythology]]
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'''Bahamut''' (بهموت} is a giant omnipotent creature in Arabian mythology, sometimes describes as a dragon or snake.
...d [[Liwash]] that resides in a vast sea, the [[Adwad]]. He supports a huge bull named [[Kuyutha]] who supports a rock of ruby, atop which stands an [[angel
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The '''Bonnacon''' (also called the '''Bonacon''' or the '''Bonasus''') is a mythology creature from Asia.
...sent, which has the mane of a horse, but in all other respects resembles a bull; its horns are curved back in such a manner as to be of no use for fighting
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*[[Niu Mo Wang]] - literally, "bull demon king"
[[Category: Chinese mythology]]
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after he had slain a fierce bull which ravaged Arcadia, a Satyr who robbed and violated persons, the serpent
King: So they say, making his form that of a bull lusting for a mate.
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In Hindu mythology, '''Navagunjara''' is a creature composed of nine different animals.
The beast has the neck of a peacock, the back or hump of a bull, the waist of a lion, and the tail is a serpent.
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...Should the Boobrie be denied its quarry it is said to bellow like an angry bull.
[[Category: Scottish mythology]]
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...he head of a bull and the body of a man or, conversely, with the body of a bull and the head of a man.
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a creature that was part man and part bull. It dwelt in the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze constructed for Kin
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...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.
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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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