'''Nagaraja''' are Kings of Snakes in Hindu mythology.
Nagaraja is a Sanskrit word from naga (snake) and raj (king) meaning King of Snakes.
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...female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes.
...ory of one of City of Villains non-player villain groups, the aptly named "Snakes".
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[[Category:Snakes]]
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...e Saint wanted for freeing the local people from the Dragon, he asked that snakes would be banished from the forest and nightingales, which had disturbed the
...e made deaf, and this is echoed in another piece of superstition regarding snakes in Sussex, that on their bellies, Adders have written the words :
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...ed to in the Pecos Bill stories and although it is his description of hoop snakes that most people are familiar with, stories of the creature predate those f
...ything that stinger touches can be sent straight to the undertaker's. Hoop snakes can kill a 200-pound man, or a 2,000-pound bull. In one version of the myth
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According to the legend, the Lightning Snakes were sent off by the Thunderbirds to kill orcas for food.
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...ntry are green, or yellow, or scarlet, or black. One author says the black snakes have a green head. The land of Bigsnake lies west of Rhinoceros country. (t
...ong snake" (or changshe 長蛇, cf. above). Eberhard (1968:84) concludes giant snakes such as the xiushe, bashe, and ranshe "were typical for the South", but wer
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...female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. Her sister [[Stheno]] was immortal and sister [[Medusa]] was mortal. Sh
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Zilant is often confused with Aq Yilan (White Snake), which is the king of snakes as well as the medieval [[cockatrice]].
...evil rulers of the neighboring pagan peoples. The legendary burning of the snakes may symbolize the victory of Islam over paganism. Sceptics say that the Bul
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...[[Damballa-Wedo]], the god of rivers and springs, and they both appear as snakes in corporeal form. Anthropologists consider her the equivalent of the Afric
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Physically Attorcroppes resemble small snakes, with human arms and legs. They can walk upright using their legs.
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...heir perceived quality of being both familiar and exotic. The behaviour of snakes and their facial features (e.g. the unblinking, lidless eyes) seemed to imp
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...their tails after they are broken off. Such lizards are often called joint snakes. May also be a reference to the Hydra in Greek Mythology.
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...ct, most Turkish (and later, Islamic) sources describe dragons as gigantic snakes.
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The Karura is said to be the enemy of snakes and dragons, feeding on the latter, as the Garuda is the enemy of the Nagas
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...ile or alligator, from ''tan'' (תנ) the stem for hidden or foul lizards or snakes. See ''tanshemet''.
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...e what had happened. She did so and found that many kinds of creatures and snakes were in the butter. Then the priest told the Strigoiaca these creatures wou
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...ifting abilities, the Pugot can move in great speed so that he can feed on snakes and insects. It usually eats by pushing food on its neck stump.
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...g, merry man with a wreath of grain on his ears. As creatures of Potrimpo, snakes were worshiped and given milk.
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...loated between here and the afterlife. They sometimes appear as the swans, snakes, horses, falcons, or wolves that they can shapeshift into but usually appea
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...rnucopia. The snake is her attribute, a symbol of healing, and consecrated snakes were kept in her temple at Rome, indicating her phallic nature. Her image c
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...dlan, who visited Volga Bulgaria in the 10th century, referred to numerous snakes, especially on trees. Once he saw a big fallen tree, which was longer than
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Erichthonius is sometimes described as a normal infant with two snakes guarding him. In a later myth he is described like a snake with human head,
...s a young boy is sitting in his chest on the rocks of Acropolis, while two snakes are guarding him and his basket is nearby. He is making a sign to Athena, w
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...were vicious female monsters with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes.
...''Gorgon''' is a creature covered with impenetrable scales, hair of living snakes, hands of brass, sharp fangs and a beard.
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...he ground from the severed head and were transformed by Gaia into venomous snakes of many kinds
...the Medusa's head is frequently represented in works of art in the form of snakes, and these once again are derived from the castration complex. It is a rema
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...own standing or kneeling on a donkey, nursing a pig and a dog, and holding snakes.
[[Image:Lamashtu2.gif|thumb|Lion-headed Lamashtu, holding snakes and with pig and dog at her breasts. On one side there is a lamp, on the ot
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...reature. Some believe the tsuchinoko legend to be based on encounters with snakes that recently swallowed a meal. The blue-tongued lizard, which became legal
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...The snake escaped and adapted to the brackish water. It would take several snakes, or a pregnant female to explain the multiple sightings, though, and an ana
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...ed for the "pharaoh's rat" or mongoose or Egyptian mongoose, which attacks snakes; it can also mean "otter". Today, it is mainly used for the Egyptian mongoo
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...ght-errant) or a dragon-like nature. Tugarin's torso is covered with fiery snakes. He is flying in the sky flapping his paper-like wings, which caused his fa
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...live in Southern China) and gained their toxicity from ingesting poisonous snakes, similar to how the poison dart frogs produce poison by ingesting poisonous
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*Read, Bernard E. 1934. "Chinese Materia Medica VII; Dragons and Snakes," ''Peking Natural History Bulletin'' 8.4:279-362.
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...n, et al., 1999). Literally made of the unclean khrafstra, animals such as snakes, toads, scorpions, frogs and lizards, this dragon embodied corruption.
...d, dragon-like monster. He is said to have a thousand senses, and to bleed snakes, scorpions, and other venomous creatures. He also is said to bring or contr
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...n, et al., 1999). Literally made of the unclean khrafstra, animals such as snakes, toads, scorpions, frogs and lizards, this dragon embodied corruption.
...d, dragon-like monster. He is said to have a thousand senses, and to bleed snakes, scorpions, and other venomous creatures. He also is said to bring or contr
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...he waist up. Below that she had the body of a scaly dragon with a thousand snakes for feet and sprouting from her waist the heads of fifty wild beasts. Dark
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...ithin them. She usually rides a seven-year old hart, with a bridle made of snakes.
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*spells to frighten away poisonous snakes,
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...primitive beasts and animal-shape monsters, from the numerous dragons and snakes of the first creation myths to the legendary hybrid and fantastic creatures
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...e of the Lake Temagmi region hold that Mishipeshu was the ancestor of all snakes.
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...ntains and valleys and all the things that are a bother to humans, such as snakes.
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...the Greek ''basileus'', which means king. The basilisk was the king of the snakes and the most poisonous creature on earth.
...hiss, and does not move its body forward in manifold coils like the other snakes but advances with its middle raised high. It kills bushes not only by its t
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Snakes are sacred animals in many West African religions. The demi-god Aidophedo u
...u and Bastian as a pendant throughout their travels. The Auryn depicts two snakes, one silver, the other gold, intertwined and biting each other's tails.
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...ixed collection of deities, including spirits of trees, rivers, ancestors, snakes, and the ghosts of people who have met a violent or tragic death. They like
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...ake, it could be an unknown type of large snake, though there are no known snakes with a serrated ridge. The people who have seen it say it is not just an ov
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.... Several evil dreams are mentioned in ancient Japanese books, such as two snakes twined together, a fox with the voice of a man, blood-stained garments, a t
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...zards. These are a primitive group of poorly studied animals. They are not snakes or lizards but are related to both. I think the Death Worm is a giant membe
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...s and is called the "scarlet bird." A common depiction was of it attacking snakes with its talons and its wings spread.
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...d eats them then and there. She is able to animate her hair (or turn it to snakes in some legends) and use it to pull the prey into the maw atop her head. Sh
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...creature, identified as both "alligator" and "crocodile". The "Dragons and Snakes" section of the (1578 CE) ''Bencao Gangmu'', which is a comprehensive Chine
* Read, Bernard E. 1934. "Chinese Materia Medica VII; Dragons and Snakes," Peking Natural History Bulletin 8.4:279-362.
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...+Bernard&ei=pfu5SIKYK4HaygTjtPWPBw Chinese Materia Medica VII; Dragons and Snakes"] ''Peking Natural History Bulletin'' 8.4:279-362.
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