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This is a list of dogs from mythology, including dogs, beings who manifest themselves as dogs, beings whose anatomy includes dog parts, and so on. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological dogs .
In one version of Laelaps' origin story, it was a gift from Zeus to Europa. The hound was passed down to King Minos , who gave it as a reward to the Athenian princess Procris . She obtained it by sleeping with him, after drugging him with a drink from the Circean root, which came from a plant of the milkweed family .
Qiqirn is a large, bald dog spirit in Inuit mythology, from around the area of Baffin Island. It has hair only on its feet, mouth and the tips of its ears and tail. Its presence will send men and dogs into convulsions, sometimes fatal. However, it is frightened of humans and will run away if an angakkuq sees it. [1]
Bahamut – Whale monster whose body supports the earth. Word seems far more ancient than Islam and may be origin of the word Behemoth in modern Judeo-Christian lore. Bake-kujira – Ghost whale; Cetus – a monster with the head of a boar or a greyhound, the body of a whale or dolphin, and a divided, fan-like tail
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Vietnamese mythology" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 ...
Of all the mythical monsters, Frankenstein is probably the most famous. Brought to life by author Mary Shelley in the 1818 novel by the same name, the mythical monster was said to have been ...
The story of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ has been cited as the common creation myth of the Vietnamese people. The story details how two progenitors, the man known as the Lạc Long Quân and the woman known as the Âu Cơ, gave birth to a "hundred eggs, fifty of which hatched, settled on land and eventually became the Vietnamese people".
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