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This list includes names of mythical creatures such as the griffin, lamia, siren and unicorn, which have been applied to real animals in some older translations of the Bible due to misunderstandings or educational prejudices of the Greek and Latin translators.
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A distinctive characteristic of the Hebrew Bible is the reinterpretation of myth on the basis of history, as in the Book of Daniel, a record of the experience of the Jews of the Second Temple period under foreign rule, presented as a prophecy of future events and expressed in terms of "mythic structures" with "the Hellenistic kingdom figured as ...
The living creatures, living beings, or hayyot (Hebrew: חַיּוֹת, romanized: ḥayyōṯ) are a class of heavenly beings in Jewish mythology. They are described in the prophet Ezekiel 's vision of the heavenly chariot in the first and tenth chapters of the Book of Ezekiel .
Romanians generally perceived the Earth as a disc, and they imagined what existed on the other side. This other Earth is imagined as a mirror image of the planet, and as a home to creatures called Blajini [blaˈʒinʲ] ("gentle/kind-hearted ones"), sometimes given the name Rohmani [ˈroh.manʲ] in Bucovina. They are described as anthropomorphic ...
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Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and Leviathan (under sea). From an illuminated manuscript, 13th century AD. Behemoth (/ b ɪ ˈ h iː m ə θ, ˈ b iː ə-/; Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ) is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation; he is paired with the other chaos-monster ...
[citation needed] The creatures of the Christian tetramorph were also common in Egyptian, Greek, and Assyrian mythology. The early Christians adopted this symbolism and adapted it for the four Evangelists [ 2 ] as the tetramorph, which first appears in Christian art in the 5th century, [ 3 ] but whose interpretative origin stems from Irenaeus ...