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  2. List of hybrid creatures in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Ketu – An Asura who has the lower parts of a snake and said to have four arms. Lamia – A female with the lower body like that of a snake and is also spelled as Lamiai. This should not be confused with the Greco-Roman Lamia. Matsya – An avatar of Lord Vishnu that is half-man half-fish. Merfolk – A race of half-human, half-fish creatures.

  3. Scorpion man - Wikipedia

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    The scorpion-man's "woman" responds, in defining lines, that Gilgamesh is two-thirds god but one-third human (Tablet IX 51). Rivkah Harris saw the scorpion-women, like the wife of Utnapishtim in Tablet XI, as traditional and passive wives, whose position was "relational, given definition as wife or daughter."

  4. Gilgamesh - Wikipedia

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    Gilgamesh (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ɡ ə m ɛ ʃ /, [7] / ɡ ɪ l ˈ ɡ ɑː m ɛ ʃ /; [8] Akkadian: 𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦, romanized: Gilgameš; originally Sumerian: 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌, romanized: Bilgames) [9] [a] was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC.

  5. List of legendary creatures (S) - Wikipedia

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    Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) – Snake which mesmerizes its prey; Scorpion Man – Human-scorpion hybrid; Scylla – Human-snake hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve legs, and six long-necked snake heads; Sea-bee – Fish-tailed bee; Sea-lion; Sea monk (Medieval folklore) – Fish-like humanoid

  6. Enkidu - Wikipedia

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    The apparition of Enkidu as a primitive man seems to be a potential parallel of the Old Babylonian version (1300–1000 BC), in which he was depicted as a servant-warrior in the Sumerian poems. There have been suggestions that he may be the "bull-man" shown in Mesopotamian art, having the head, arms, and body of a man, and the horns, ears, tail ...

  7. List of reptilian humanoids - Wikipedia

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    The Snake People from the TV-movie The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire; Spinner from My Hero Academia; Tilian from A.T.O.M. Unas from Stargate; Visitors from V; Zafiro from Disney's Gargoyles is a Gargoyle who has a red-skinned snake-bodied gargate, with two humanoid arms and feathered wings, reminiscent of Kukulcan in Mayan myth and leader of ...

  8. Chimera (mythology) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Manticore - Wikipedia

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    bred among the Indians, having a treble rowe of teeth beneath and above, whose greatnesse, roughnesse, and feete are like a Lyons, his face and eares like unto a mans, his eies grey, and collour red, his taile like the taile of a Scorpion of the earth, armed with a sting, casting forth sharp pointed quills, his voice like the voice of a small ...