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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 ...
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This creature was called "Ma Nin Mangkorn" (Thai: ม้านิลมังกร, "ceylonite dragon horse"), it is depicted as it has diamond fangs, ceylonite scales, and a birthmark on the tongue. It was a mixture of horse, dragon, deer antlers, fish scales, and Phaya Nak tail, with has black sequins all over. Its appearance resembles a qilin.
The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.
[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 .
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Gankyil, a symbol in Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism composed of three swirling and interconnected blades; Gogok, a comma-shaped jewel found in the Korean Peninsula; Lauburu, the Basque cross; Mon (emblem) Pig dragon or zhūlóng, a zoomorphic stone artifact produced in neolithic China with a C- or comma-like shape; Triskelion