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  2. Category:Legendary birds - Wikipedia

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    This category is being considered for merging into Category:Mythological birds. This does not mean that any of the pages in the category will be deleted. They may, however, be recategorized. Please share your thoughts on the matter at this category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Please do not empty the category or remove this ...

  3. Thunderbird (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Ojibwe version of the myth states that the thunderbirds were created by Nanabozho to fight the underwater spirits. Thunderbirds also punished humans who broke moral rules. The thunderbirds lived in the four directions and arrived with the other birds in the springtime. In the fall, they migrated south after the end of the underwater spirits ...

  4. List of avian humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Kurangaituku is a supernatural being in Māori mythology who is part-woman and part-bird. [21] Lamassu from Mesopotamian mythology, a winged tutelary deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. Lei Gong, a Chinese thunder god often depicted as a bird man. [22] The second people of the world in Southern Sierra Miwok ...

  5. Category:Birds in mythology - Wikipedia

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    Metamorphoses into birds in Greek mythology (96 P) Mythological birds (8 C, 5 P) N. Birds in Norse mythology (7 P) Pages in category "Birds in mythology"

  6. List of legendary creatures in Hindu mythology - Wikipedia

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    The World Turtle in Hindu belief is known as Akupāra, or sometimes Chukwa, a chiranjeevi. [6] Bedawang or Bedawang Nala is a giant turtle in Balinese mythology who brought the whole world on his back. In the creation mythology of the world, it represents a change from Antaboga. He along with two dragons support the human world.

  7. Roc (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    1690 painting by Franz Rösel von Rosenhof showing two roc-like birds carrying a deer and an elephant; a third grapples with a lion. Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela reported a story reminiscent of the roc in which shipwrecked sailors escaped from a desert island by wrapping themselves in ox-hides and letting griffins carry them off as if they were ...

  8. Milky Way (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Estonian folklore it is believed that the birds are led by a white bird with the head of a maiden who chases birds of prey away. [12] The maiden, the goddess Lindu, was the Queen of the Birds and the daughter of Ukko, the King of the Sky.

  9. List of flying mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    Sirens - bird women in Greek mythology, not to be confused with mermaids; Simurgh – A Persian bird similar to the Ziz [1] Snallygaster; Sphinx ; Stymphalian Birds; Sylph; Thunderbird; Winged Unicorn; Wyvern; Yalungur; Yuki-onna; Zilant; Ziz – A gigantic bird mentioned briefly in the Psalms [1] Zduhać

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