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Cerberus – multi-headed dog, guards the gates of the Underworld, son/brother of Orthrus (Greek, Roman) Chupacabra (Latin American) – Alleged creature reputed to attack and drink the blood of livestock, occasionally described with bat-like features. Sometimes thought to resemble, or mistaken for a hairless coyote.
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
It is the only named underworld river mentioned in Homer's Iliad [18] – our earliest mythological text – and three of the Homeric Hymns. [19] Not only is it an underworld river [20] but is also, more generally, the inviolable waters upon which the gods swear oaths [21] and a goddess in her own right (the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys). [22]
The Shade of Tiresias Appearing to Odysseus during the Sacrifice (c. 1780–85), painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli, showing a scene from Book Ten of the Odyssey. In poetry and literature, a shade (translating Greek σκιά, [1] Latin umbra [2]) is the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld.
The Underdark is a subterranean realm of enormous size inhabited by many different types of creatures such as drow, mind flayers, and aboleths. [5] It extends far beyond the dungeons created by surface dwellers, and consists of caverns, tunnels and large complexes.
In Hesiod's Theogony, the "tribe of Dreams" was descended from Nyx and were, among others, brothers of Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos (death), [5] also residents of the underworld. [6] The Oneiroi, who dwelt on the dark shores of the western ocean, [7] were described by Euripides as more frightening chthonic deities.
The scaled creature was part of the genus ... “The extremely elongated dark mark on the caudal peduncle is the defining morphological feature of (the new species),” the researchers said ...
Wooden statue of an unusually twisted turtle-headed creature of the underworld — from the tomb of Pharaoh Horemheb (c. 1319–1292 BC [1]). British Museum, London. Wooden statue of a ram-headed creature of the underworld — from the tomb of Horemheb. British Museum, London.