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In [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], '''Oreads''' (ὄρος, "mountain") were a type of ...the French poets to whom Imagism owed such a debt). Later, she dropped the artificial surname and wrote as just plain 'H. D.'.

[[Category: Artificial monsters]] [[Category: Japanese mythology]]

'''Each monster should be listed in the three main dimensions : monstrotype, mythology and element association.''' ==='''Artificial creatures'''===

...en's novel Protector has much of the action take place in a small, secret, artificial world named "Kobold", part of which was built to resemble M. C. Escher's fa [[Category:Germanic mythology]]

'''Tálos''' was a giant creature made of bronze in Greek mythology, that some writers say was the last survivor from the Bronze Age of man. * [http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Talos1.html Talos in the Greek Mythology Link]

...odern light of an alien abduction scenario, some have speculated a form of artificial insemination being implemented. ...ing attempts to reconcile mythology with science; many have theorized that mythology can and does contain grains of truth in the form of a highly distorted "fol

...or religion (as in ''Greek mythology'', ''Egyptian mythology'' or ''Norse mythology'') or the branch of knowledge dealing with the collection, study and interp ...falsehood — a story which many believe but which is not true. The field of mythology does not use this definition.

...which displays both human and animal characteristics, either as a part of mythology or as a [[spirituality|spiritual]] concept. The word is derived from Greek In [[folklore]], mythology and [[anthropology]], therianthropy can be used to describe a character tha

...y Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein]]'' and the alchemical homunculus. In Norse mythology, Mökkurkálfi (or Mistcalfa) was a clay giant, built to help the [[troll]] ...golems carries clay tablets on his arm and in his head, alluding to Jewish mythology.

...e intelligent, supernatural, or highly developed reptile-like humanoids in mythology, popular fiction, and speculative fringe theories. They also appear in some In pre-columbian mythology from Colombia, ''Bachue'' (the primordial woman) transformed into a big sna

...ortuguese-American fishing village) had taken for a Kraken tentacle was an artificial construct and a weapon of murder, which the renegade crew of an undersea la In the PC game ''Age of Mythology'' the Kraken is an aquatic myth unit that can be summoned by the Norse civi

...chemists to borrow the terms and symbols of [[Bible|biblical]] and pagan [[mythology]], [[astrology]], [[kabbalah]], and other mystic and esoteric fields; so th ...ually rendered in English as Geber). Jabir's ultimate goal was takwin, the artificial creation of life in the alchemical laboratory, up to and including human li

...ging the approximate relation/proximity to surface structures (natural and artificial) is poor (especially if in an unfamiliar area). * ''British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions'' by Wirt Sikes

...or cavern, preferably sanctified by previous local religious usage, or an artificial building imitating a cavern. Mithraea were dark and windowless, even if th *[[:Category:Category:North American mythology|Native American]] [[Ghost Dance]]s of the late Nineteenth Century were myst