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Depicting Baphomet, a goat-headed, angel-winged humanoid symbol of the occult, [4] the statue stands 8.5 feet (2.6 m) tall, weighing over 3,000 lb (1,400 kg), and includes a prominent pentagram as well as two smiling youths gazing up at the seated central figure.
Éliphas Lévi published Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (Dogma and Rituals of High Magic) as two volumes (Dogme 1854, Rituel 1856), in which he included an image he had drawn himself, which he described as Baphomet and "The Sabbatic Goat", showing a winged humanoid goat with a pair of breasts and a torch on its head between its horns (see ...
The order Chiroptera consists of 1318 extant species belonging to 226 genera. This does not include hybrid species or extinct prehistoric species. Modern molecular studies indicate that the 226 genera can be grouped into 21 families; these families are divided between two named suborders and are grouped in those suborders into named clades, and some of these families are subdivided into named ...
Lamassu from Mesopotamian mythology, a winged tutelary deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. Lei Gong, a Chinese thunder god often depicted as a bird man. [22] The second people of the world in Southern Sierra Miwok mythology. [23] Morpheus, the son of Hypnos and a god of dreams. [24]
Singer and songwriter Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton actually deserves that recognition, though Presley's recording overshadowed her initial success with the song. The rhythm and blues performer also wrote and recorded “Ball 'n' Chain” in 1961 which was later recorded by Janis Joplin, University of Washington music history professor ...
Megaloprepus caerulatus, also known as the blue-winged helicopter, is a forest giant damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae. Forest giant damselflies were previously recognized as their own family, Pseudostigmatidae. M. caerulatus is found in wet and moist forests in Central and South America.
They range in size from the Shortridge's long-fingered bat, at 3 cm (1 in) plus a 3 cm (1 in) tail, to the great bent-winged bat, at 8 cm (3 in) plus a 7 cm (3 in) tail. Like all bats, miniopterids are capable of true and sustained flight , and have forearm lengths ranging from 3 cm (1 in) for many species to 6 cm (2 in) in the western bent ...
Argentavis was among the largest flying birds to ever exist, holding the record for heaviest flying bird, although it was surpassed in wingspan after the 2014 description of Pelagornis sandersi, which is estimated to have possessed wings some 20% longer than those of Argentavis.