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Tiangou from the Shan Hai Jing. The tiangou (Chinese: 天狗; pinyin: tiāngǒu; Wade–Giles: t'ien 1-kou 3; lit. 'Heavenly Dog') is a legendary creature from China. The tiangou resembles a black dog or meteor, and is thought to eat the Sun or Moon during an eclipse. [clarification needed : See talk page.]
The immortal Zhang shooting at the Tiangou. Dogs are an important motif in Chinese mythology.These motifs include a particular dog which accompanies a hero, the dog as one of the twelve totem creatures for which years are named, a dog giving first provision of grain which allowed current agriculture, and claims of having a magical dog as an original ancestor in the case of certain ethnic groups.
Fenghuang, Chinese phoenix; Fenghuang. Feilian, god of the wind who is a winged dragon with the head of a deer and tail of a snake. Feilong, winged legendary creature that flies among clouds. Fish in Chinese mythology; Four Perils; Four Symbols, also called Sixiang, four legendary animals that represent the points of the compass.
The mythological creatures first described in Shanhaijing appear in many historical and modern stories and art based on Chinese mythology; for examples, the Ba snake, the Bi Fang bird, the qiongqi ("thoroughly odd", one of the Four Perils), the tiangou (heavenly dog), the zouyu, etc.
The term tengu and the characters used to write it are borrowed from the name of a fierce demon from Chinese folklore called tiāngǒu though this still has to be confirmed. Chinese literature assigns this creature a variety of descriptions, but most often it is a fierce and anthropophagous canine monster that resembles a shooting star or comet ...
Zhang Xian shooting at a tiangou to protect his children clustered about him. Zhang Xian (Chinese: 張仙; pinyin: Zhāng Xiān) is a Chinese god who is the enemy of the tiangou (Chinese: 天狗; pinyin: tiāngǒu; Wade–Giles: t'ien 1-kou 3; lit. 'Heavenly Dog'), a legendary creature in the form of a dog who creates eclipses. It is said that ...
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Tiangou – Meteoric dog; Tianlong – Celestial dragon; Tibicena – Evil dog; Tiddy Mun – Bog spirit; Tigmamanukan – Asian fairy bluebird; Tigre Capiangos – Jaguar-human shapeshifter; Tigris (Jewish) – Giant lion; Tikbalang – Anthropomorphic horse