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  2. Cerberus - Wikipedia

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    Later, the mythographer Fulgentius, allegorizes Cerberus' three heads as representing the three origins of human strife: "nature, cause, and accident", and (drawing on the same flesh-devouring etymology as Servius) as symbolizing "the three ages—infancy, youth, old age, at which death enters the world."

  3. Polycephaly - Wikipedia

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    In humans, there are two forms of twinning that can lead to two heads being supported by a single torso. [3] In dicephalus parapagus dipus , the two heads are side by side. In craniopagus parasiticus , the two heads are joined directly to each other, but only one head has a functional torso.

  4. List of hybrid creatures in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Tam Đầu Cửu Vĩ or Ông Lốt - is a divine beast with 3 human heads and a 9-tailed snake body, the mount of the god Ông Hoàng Bơ in Đạo Mẫu in Vietnamese folk religion. Ugajin - A harvest and fertility kami of Japanese mythology with the body of a snake and the head of a bearded man, for the masculine variant or the head of a ...

  5. Three-headed monster - Wikipedia

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    Three-headed monster may refer to: Azi dahaka, a three-headed dragon in Persian mythology; Cerberus, a multi-headed (usually three-headed) dog in Greek and Roman mythology; Zmiy Gorynych, a multi-headed (usually three-headed) Slavic dragon; King Ghidorah, a three-headed dragon in the Godzilla franchise

  6. List of many-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction - Wikipedia

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    3 Of the digimon sovereigns have 4 eyes on their heads from Digimon. Huanlongmon has 8 eyes from Digimon. Rachnera Arachnera from Monster Musume has six eyes, being part spider. Pai, a Sanjiyan Unkara from the manga 3×3 Eyes. Thousand-Eyes Idol from Yu-Gi-Oh!. Alucard's familiar, "Black hound of Baskerville" in Hellsing Ultimate. Claydol, from ...

  7. Human head - Wikipedia

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    Anatomy of the human head. The human head consists of a fleshy outer portion, which surrounds the bony skull. The brain is enclosed within the skull. There are 22 bones in the human head. The head rests on the neck, and the seven cervical vertebrae support it. The human head typically weighs between 2.3 and 5 kilograms (5.1 and 11.0 lb) Over 98 ...

  8. Cynocephaly - Wikipedia

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    A cynocephalus. From the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493).. The characteristic of cynocephaly, or cynocephalus (/ s aɪ n oʊ ˈ s ɛ f ə l i /), having the head of a canid, typically that of a dog or jackal, is a widely attested mythical phenomenon existing in many different forms and contexts.

  9. Polymelia - Wikipedia

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    [3] 1889: Frank Lentini, an Italian-American sideshow performer, was born with a third leg, as well as a fourth foot and two sets of genitals; 1995: Somali baby girl born with three left arms. [4] March 2006: a baby boy identified only as Jie-jie was born in Shanghai with a fully formed third arm: he had two full-sized left arms, one ventral to ...