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  2. Frogs in culture - Wikipedia

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    Folklorist Andrew Lang listed myths about a frog or toad that swallows or blocks the flow of waters occurring in many world mythologies. [1]On the other hand, researcher Anna Engelking drew attention to the fact that studies on Indo-European mythology and its language see "a link between frogs and the underworld, and – by extension – sickness and death".

  3. List of fictional frogs and toads - Wikipedia

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    The Incursan transformation of Ben Tennyson, which resembles a humanoid frog with black sunglasses. Bullfrog: Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix: An anthropomorphic French frog and member of the Brotherhood of Assassins: Byonko: Zatch Bell! A mamodo frog who serve the main villain Milordo-Z. He have a yellowish-green spellbook and a slime ...

  4. Kek (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In the oldest representations, Kauket is given the head of a serpent, and Kek the head of either a frog or a cat. In one scene, they are identified with Ka and Kait; in this scene, Ka-Kekui has the head of a frog surmounted by a beetle and Kait-Kekuit has the head of a serpent surmounted by a disk. [7]

  5. Frog - Wikipedia

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    Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history. An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca

  6. Cultural depictions of amphibians - Wikipedia

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    To the ancients in Egypt, Greece and Rome, the frog was a symbol of fertility, and in Egypt actually the object of worship. [5] A plague of frogs is seen as a punishment in the Old Testament of the Bible. A frog being eaten by King Stork, by Milo Winter to illustrate a 1919 Aesop anthology

  7. Tiddalik - Wikipedia

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    The water-holding frog ascribed in modern times to Tiddalik is not found in the area of the legend's origin. It is likely that Tiddalik either refers to a different frog or is a memory of a time, 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, when the landscape was sufficiently different for the frog's range to extend to the South Gippsland.

  8. Nu (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The male aspect, Nun, is written with a male gender ending. As with the primordial concepts of the Ogdoad, Nu's male aspect was depicted as a frog, or a frog-headed man. In Ancient Egyptian art, Nun also appears as a bearded man, with blue-green skin, representing water. Naunet is represented as a snake or snake-headed woman. [citation needed]

  9. List of hybrid creatures in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Heqet – The frog-headed Egyptian God. Horus, Monthu, Ra, and Seker – Each of these Egyptian Gods has the head of a falcon or hawk. Inmyeonjo – A human face with bird body creature in ancient Korean mythology. Karura – A divine creature of Japanese Hindu-Buddhist mythology with the head of a bird and the torso of a human.