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A longma (lower left corner) on a rubbing from the Wu Liang shrines' reliefs. Longma or "dragon horse" connects with other creatures in Chinese folklore.While longma sometimes applies to the Qilin, [13] the closest relative is the legendary tianma 天馬 "heavenly horse" or the "Chinese Pegasus", which was metaphorically identified with the hanxuema 汗血馬 "blood-sweating horse" or Ferghana ...
Variant 1: daito or otodo Variant 2: taito Taito, daito, or otodo (𱁬/) is a kokuji (kanji character invented in Japan) written with 84 strokes, and thus the most graphically complex CJK character—collectively referring to Chinese characters and derivatives used in the written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
[1] [2] It is a royal symbol of the Meitei royalties (Ningthouja dynasty). [3] The most remarkable statues dedicated to "Kangla Sa" stand inside the Kangla. [4] In Meitei traditional race competitions, winners of the race are declared only after symbolically touching the statue of the dragon "Kangla Sha". [5]
The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is an artistic representation of an animal, distinct to the early medieval culture of the Picts of Scotland. The great majority of surviving examples are on Pictish stones .
Chukar partridge (primary cultural symbol) Peafowl (religious) Capra, a religious symbol in Yarsanism; Van cat (regional) Rooster, a religious symbol in Yarsanism; Fish, a religious symbol in Yarsanism; Wild boar, a religious symbol in Yarsanism; Kurdish horse, added to the National Intangible Cultural Heritage list of Iran
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The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
Radical 212, 龍, 龙, or 竜 meaning "dragon", is one of the two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes. The character arose as a stylized drawing of a Chinese dragon, [1] and refers to a version of the dragon in each East Asian culture: Chinese dragon, Lóng in Chinese; Japanese dragon, Ryū or Tatsu in Japanese