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
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...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
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...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".
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...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
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...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
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...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.
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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
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...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
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...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
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...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
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-- 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
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...''' are mermen from Sirius who, according to some authors, visited Ancient Egypt.
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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
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* Massey, Gerald. 1907. ''Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World''. Unwin.
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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).
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===Ancient Greece and Egypt===
Cynocephaly was familiar to the Ancient Greeks from representations of the Egyptian god [[Hapi]], the son of [[Horu
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...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),
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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.
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...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
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...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
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