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This page lists many-eyed beings in mythology and fiction. The list is meant to include creatures that have multiple eyes on body or on head (or heads); for creatures who have multiple eyes due to having multiple heads, each having two eyes, see polycephaly in mythology .
Pages in category "Mythical many-headed creatures" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Bai Ze – A creature from Chinese mythology with the head of a human and the body of a cow with six horns and nine eyes. Catoblepas - One version of the creature in Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony depicts it with the head of a wild boar and the body of a black African buffalo. Criosphinx – A Sphinx that has the head of a ram.
Mythic humanoids are legendary, folkloric, or mythological creatures that are part human, or that resemble humans through appearance or character. Each culture has different mythical creatures that come from many different origins, and many of these creatures are humanoids. They are often able to talk and in many stories they guide the hero on ...
One of the animals shown is a two-headed snake (conjoined twin snakes), with one head on each end, much like an amphisbaena. The image is captioned, " two headed snakes of India are harmless ". [ 8 ] It is possible a sighting of an animal like this was the origin of the amphisbaena, or that the Greek mythological creature is used, as well as ...
An Attic black-figure neck amphora, by the Swing Painter c. 550–500 BC (Cab. Med. 223), shows a two-headed Orthrus, at the feet of a three-bodied Geryon, with two arrows protruding through one of his heads, and a dog tail. [13] According to Apollodorus, Orthrus had two heads; however, in art, the number varies. [14]
Psoglav - (Bosnia) humanoid monster with dog's head, horse's legs, one eye and iron teeth. Salawa – the "Typhonian Animal," a slender, vaguely canine-animal that is the totemic animal of Set; Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines)
The Indian conception of a sphinx that comes closest to the classic Greaco-Roman idea is the Sharabha and Gandabherunda, two mythical creatures, part lion, part human, part mammal and part bird, and the form of Sharabha that god Shiva took on and fought with the god Vishnu as Narasimha and Shiva as Sharabha was killed by Vishnu as Gandabherunda ...