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A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BC. Deer have significant roles in the mythology of various peoples located all over the world, such as object of worship, the incarnation of deities, the object of heroic quests and deeds, or as magical disguise or enchantment/curse for princesses and princes in many folk and fairy tales.
Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The morning dew gathers in their horns and forms the rivers of the world.
In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian hind (Ancient Greek: Κερυνῖτις ἔλαφος Kerynitis elaphos, Latin: Elaphus Cerynitis), was a creature that lived in Ceryneia, [1] Greece and took the form of an enormous female deer, larger than a bull, [1] with golden antlers [2] like a stag, [3] hooves of bronze or brass, [4] and a "dappled hide", [5] that "excelled in swiftness of foot", [6 ...
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Deer Woman stories are found in multiple Indigenous American cultures, often told to young children or by young adults and preteens in the communities of the Lakota people (Oceti Sakowin), Ojibwe, Ponca, Omaha, Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Choctaw, Otoe, Osage, Pawnee, and the Haudenosaunee, and those are only the ones that have documented Deer Woman sightings.
In Abrahamic mythology and Zoroastrianism mythology, angels are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as messengers between God and humans. Bat – An Egyptian goddess with the horns and ears of a cow. Cernunnos – An ancient Gaulish/Celtic God with the antlers of a deer. Fairy – A humanoid with insect-like wings.
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Actaeon – a hunter turned into a deer and tore apart by his dogs. Ceryneian Hind – Artemis' large, sacred golden hind; Deer Woman (Native American) – female human above the waist, deer below. Male version is Elk Man. Eikþyrnir (Norse mythology) – stag which stands upon Valhalla; Goldhorn – white golden-horned antelope