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  2. Cikap-kamuy - Wikipedia

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    Cikap-Kamuy is depicted as a great owl, as opposed to smaller owls (such as little horned owl) that represent demons and other malicious spirits. The Ainu believed that the owl watched over the mosir (country) and local kotan (villages), so Cikap-Kamuy came to be represented as the master of the domain. In some areas, his tears were said to be ...

  3. Xiao (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    There is a bird here which looks like an owl and it has a human face, a monkey's body, and a dog's tail. Its name comes from its call: [lacuna]. Whenever it appears, that town will have a severe drought. (Yanzi Mountain 崦嵫之山, where the sun sets) [13] There is an animal on this mountain which looks like a dog but it has a human face.

  4. Owl - Wikipedia

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    The owl kills its prey using these talons to crush the skull and knead the body. [29] The crushing power of an owl's talons varies according to prey size and type, and by the size of the owl. The burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia), a small, partly insectivorous owl, has a release

  5. List of Lakota deities - Wikipedia

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    Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka - The Great Spirit/Great Spirits. Wakíŋyaŋ, or Waukheon - Thunder Spirits. Wakíŋyaŋ is believed to be a bird. The Thunderbird. Wóhpe, or Woohpe - The Spirit of peace and the wife of the south wind Okaga. Spirit of amity, beauty, compassion, and happiness. She moves among oppositions to create harmony. [1]

  6. Great grey owl - Wikipedia

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    The great grey owl (Strix nebulosa) (also great gray owl in American English) is a true owl, and is the world's largest species of owl by length. It is distributed across the Northern Hemisphere , and it is the only species in the genus Strix found in both Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

  7. List of hybrid creatures in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Sumi – An animal guardian spirit with the wings of a Thunderbird and the legs of an American black bear who is the mascot of the 2010 Winter Paralympics. Toodee – A blue monster with the body and skin of a dinosaur, the scales and spikes of a dragon, and the face, ears and whiskers of a rabbit. She is debuted in Yo Gabba Gabba!.

  8. Strix (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The appearance and calls of owls, such as the Eurasian scops owl, may have influenced Greek ideas of the blood-drinking strix. "Le Stryge" Chimera overlooks Paris from atop Notre-Dame de Paris . The strix (plural striges or strixes ), in the mythology of classical antiquity , was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis , that fed on ...

  9. Aumakua - Wikipedia

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    In Hawaiian mythology, an ʻaumakua (/ ʔ aʊ m ɑː ˈ k u ə /; often spelled aumakua, plural, ' aumākua) is a personal or family god that originated as a deified ancestor, and which takes on physical forms such as spirit vehicles. An 'aumakua may manifest as a shark, owl, bird, octopus, or inanimate objects such as plants or rocks. [1]