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These nine animals went on to create all the world's creatures. The heron created all flying birds but one, the kite, and the crocodile created snakes and the iguana. The goat, Budi, brought forth all the horned animals, the scarab all insects, and Yo Bumba, all fish. [2] Three of Mbombo's sons then said they would finish creating the world.
Makara (Hindu mythology) – half terrestrial animal in the frontal part (stag, deer, or elephant) and half aquatic animal in the hind part (usually of a fish, a seal, or a snake, though sometimes a peacock or even a floral tail is depicted) Mug-wamp - (Canadian) giant sturgeon monster said to inhabit Lake Temiskaming in Ontario. Name is of ...
Abath – One-horned animal. Abura-sumashi – Creature from a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture. Acephali – Headless humanoids. Acheri – Disease-bringing ghost. Achiyalabopa – Huge bird god. Achlis – Curious elk. Adar Llwch Gwin – Giant birds that understand human languages.
Such figures are also often referred to as 'Lord of the forest' or 'Lord of the mountain'. The Greek god shown as "Master of Animals" is usually Apollo as a hunting deity. [23] Shiva has the epithet Pashupati meaning the "Lord of animals", and these figures may derive from an archetype. [24]
Image credits: AnimalAnticsNewsflare However, "Adopting an animal from a shelter or rescue means that the agency you adopted from now has room to save another homeless animal," Bird said.
Yaldabaoth, otherwise known as Jaldabaoth or Ialdabaoth [a] (/ ˌ j ɑː l d ə ˈ b eɪ ɒ θ /; Koinē Greek: Ιαλδαβαώθ, romanized: Ialdabaóth; Latin: Ialdabaoth; [1] Coptic: ⲒⲀⲖⲦⲀⲂⲀⲰⲐ Ialtabaôth), is a malevolent God and demiurge (creator of the material world) according to various Gnostic sects, represented sometimes as a theriomorphic, lion-headed serpent.
Cernunnos, god associated with horned male animals, produce, and fertility; Druantia, hypothetical Gallic tree goddess proposed by Robert Graves in his 1948 study The White Goddess; popular with Neopagans. Nantosuelta, Gaulish goddess of nature, the earth, fire, and fertility; Sucellus, god of agriculture, forests, and alcoholic drinks
The tengu featured in the 2013 movie 47 Ronin, with their lord played by Togo Igawa. [47] Tactics features a shinto onmyoji who spends his life searching for a tengu, whom he names Haruka and another tengu named Sugino. Each tengu represents a different type: Haruka is a "black" tengu who was born as such and is more powerful than "white ...