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Manticore – a mythical creature with a human head, a lion body, a scorpion tail, spines like a porcupine, and bat wings in some iterations; Nue – a Japanese Chimera with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the legs of a tiger, and a snake-headed tail; Pegasus – a winged stallion in Greek mythology; Pixiu or Pi Yao – Chinese ...
Kuk – Kuk's male form has a frog head while his female form has a snake head. Meretseger – The cobra -headed Egyptian Goddess. Sirin – Half-bird, half-human creature with the head and chest of a woman from Russian folklore; its bird half is generally that of an owl's body. Sobek – The crocodile -headed Egyptian God.
Arae: female demons of curses, called forth from the underworld. Basilisk: a snake that kills anyone who lays eyes on it. Catoblepas: a buffalo-like creature with shaggy fur, large horns, and a heavy head whose toxic breath or ugly looks could kill. Centaur and Centauride: creatures with a head and the torso of a human, and the body of a horse.
Shahmaran is a mythical creature, half-snake and half-woman, portrayed as a dual-headed creature with a crown on each head, possessing a human female head on one end, and a snake's head on the other, possibly representing a phallic figure. [3] The human part is also decorated with a large necklace. [4][5]
Nehebkau is the “original snake” [5] of Egyptian mythology, and was believed to be both an ancient and eternal god. [2] Although he is occasionally represented as a son of Serket, Renenutet or Geb, he is sometimes believed to have simply "emerged from the earth". [2] He was believed to have lived in the Great Temple of Heliopolis, which was ...
Although the Gorgon being beheaded on the Boeotian pithos is depicted as a female centaur, with neither wings nor snakes present, and the Gorgons on the Eleusis Amphora, have wingless, wasp-shaped bodies with cauldron-like heads, by the end of the seventh century BC, humanoid bodies, with wings, and snakes around their head, necks, or waist ...
Echidna. Sculpture by Pirro Ligorio 1555, Parco dei Mostri (Monster Park), Lazio, Italy [1] In Greek mythology, Echidna (/ ɪˈkɪdnə /; Greek: Ἔχιδνα, translit. Ékhidna, lit. "she-viper", pronounced [ékʰidna]) [2] was a monster, half-woman and half-snake, who lived alone in a cave. She was the mate of the fearsome monster Typhon and ...
The body is long and slender and the two pairs of long, membranous wings are prominently veined. Females have a large and sturdy ovipositor which is used to deposit eggs in some concealed location. They are holometabolous insects with a four-stage life cycle consisting of eggs, larvae, pupae and adults. In most species, the larvae develop under ...