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Sassanid bowl with sitting griffin, gilted silver, from Iran.. The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: grȳps or grȳpus; [1] Late and Medieval Latin: [2] gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is very different from the vernacular usage of the term "myth" that refers to a belief that is not true. Instead, the veracity of a myth is not a defining criterion.
[1] After relating in general terms the glories of Scyld's reign, the poet describes Scyld's funeral, his body was laid in a ship surrounded by treasures: They decked his body no less bountifully
The following is a list of folktales of the state of Chhattisgarh first published by author Theophil H. Twente in 1938: [1] The Frog and the Lizard [2] The Two Who Were Brothers Indeed [3] How the Gond Saved His Field of Gram [4] Bhimsen and Fever [5] The King Who Learned From a Cock [6] The Wicked Mother-In-Law [7] How a Wedding Song Saved ...
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd (the equivalent of Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [1] [2]) and Sigurd's wife Gudrun.
[3] [2] Iarbas was said to have lead an army across the Libyan desert, however him and his army began suffering from severe thirst, Iarbas implored for the assistance of his father Ammon for aid, the god sent him a ram (the animal of the god) and Iarbas and his army followed the ram to a location, where, the ram struck his hooves to the ground ...
The Legend of Keret, also known as the Epic of Kirta, is an ancient Ugaritic epic poem, [1] [2] dated to Late Bronze Age, circa 1500 – 1200 BCE. [3] It recounts the myth of King Kirta of Hubur. It is one of the Ugaritic texts. In the legend, Kirta is the son of the great god El but is considered unfortunate. He has been widowed seven times ...
'heroic, manly') [1] was in Greek mythology and history a Phoenician king of Tyre [2] or Sidon. The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC), born in the city of Halicarnassus under the Achaemenid Empire, estimated that Agenor lived either 1000 or 1600 years prior to his visit to Tyre in 450 BC at the end of the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 ...