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Mythological birds of prey (6 C, 32 P) Pages in category "Mythological birds" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Mythological birds (8 C, 5 P) A. Avian humanoids (23 C, 65 P) C. Mythological and legendary Chinese birds (20 P) Legendary crows (17 P) D. Bird deities (3 C, 7 P) H ...
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 ...
Mythological birds (8 C, 5 P) N. Birds in Norse mythology (7 P) Pages in category "Birds in mythology" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Some said that the bird had peacock-like coloring, and Herodotus's claim of the Phoenix being red and yellow is popular in many versions of the story on record. [20] Ezekiel the Tragedian declared that the phoenix had red legs and striking yellow eyes, [ 18 ] but Lactantius said that its eyes were blue like sapphires [ 21 ] and that its legs ...
Turul – mythological bird of prey; Veðrfölnir - (Scandinavian) a hawk that sits atop an eagle that rests atop the world tree, Yggdrasil. Vucub Caquix – bird demon; Wampum Bird- (Huron-Wyandot) Giant heron with shell armor instead of feathers. Yatagarasu – three-legged crow; Zhenniao – poisonous bird
There were reported elephant bird sightings at least in folklore memory as Étienne de Flacourt wrote in 1658. [8] Its egg, live or subfossilised , was known as early as 1420, when sailors to the Cape of Good Hope found eggs of the roc, according to a caption in the 1456 Fra Mauro map of the world, which says that the roc "carries away an ...
Firebird - large bird with magically luminescent red- and yellow-hued feathers (sometimes used as a synonym of phoenix; see below) Fūjin; Gamayun; Gargoyle; Garuda; German; Gorgons - three sisters (Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa) with snakes for hair, sharp fangs, golden wings, and petrifying gazes. Griffin – An equine-eagle hybrid [1] Harpy ...