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Tlaloc (Aztec mythology), water god and minor death god; ruler of Tlalocan, a separate underworld for those who died from drowning. Xipe Totec (Aztec mythology), hero god, death god; inventor of warfare and master of plagues. Xolotl (Aztec mythology), god of sunset, fire, lightning, and death.
Inca mythology is the universe of legends and collective memory of the Inca civilization, which took place in the current territories of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina, incorporating in the first instance, systematically, the territories of the central highlands of Peru to the north. Inca mythology was successful due to ...
Caladrius (Roman) – white bird with healing powers. Chalkydri (Jewish) – heavenly creatures of the Sun. Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird. Cinnamon bird (Greek) – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon. Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death.
Description. [edit] The Gashadokuro is a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeletonmade of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield or of starvation/famine (while the corpse becomes a gashadokuro, the spirit becomes a separate yōkai, known as hidarugami.), and is 10 or more meters tall. Only the eyes protrude, and some sources ...
List of legendary creatures from China. List of legendary creatures from France. List of legendary creatures from Japan. List of legendary creatures in Hindu mythology. List of named animals and plants in Germanic heroic legend. List of Philippine mythological creatures. List of spiritual entities in Islam. Mythical creatures in Burmese folklore.
Hybrid creatures in mythology; Kotobuki – a Japanese Chimera with the parts of the animals on the Chinese Zodiac; Lamassu – an Assyrian deity described to be bull/lion/eagle/human hybrid; List of hybrid creatures in folklore; Hippocampus- a mythical creature depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.
A common term for the personification of death across Latin America is "la Parca" from one of the three Roman Parcae, a figure similar to the Anglophone Grim Reaper, though usually depicted as female and without a scythe. Mictlantecutli in the Codex Borgia. In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl is the " Queen of Mictlan " (the Aztec underworld ...
A cockatrice overdoor at Belvedere Castle (1869) in New York's Central Park. A cockatrice is a mythical beast, essentially a two-legged dragon, wyvern, or serpent -like creature with a rooster 's head. Described by Laurence Breiner as "an ornament in the drama and poetry of the Elizabethans ", it was featured prominently in English thought and ...