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The Han dynasty dictionary Shuowen Jiezi describes qi as single-horned, [8] and it can sometimes be depicted as having a single horn. The translation, however, may be misleading, as qilin can also be depicted as having two horns. In modern Chinese, "one-horned beast" (独角兽; 獨角獸; Dújiǎoshòu) is used for "unicorns". A number of ...
The beast would ram the guilty, but spare the innocent. The account appears in Wang Chong, Lunheng (80 AD). [8] [2] [3] In the same work (Lunheng), the legend is prefaced the remark that public offices are painted with the images of the beast and the minister. [3] [2] As a symbol of traditional Chinese law, xiezhi has been promoted by the ...
Cernunnos on the Gundestrup cauldron (plate A). He sits cross-legged, wielding a torc in one hand and a ram-horned serpent in the other. Cernunnos is a Celtic god whose name is only clearly attested once, on the 1st-century CE Pillar of the Boatmen from Paris, where it is associated with an image of an aged, antlered figure with torcs around his horns.
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
Horned God in Wiccan based neopagan religions represents a solar god often associated with vegetation, that's honoured as the Holly King or Oak King in Neopagan rituals. [47] Most often, the Horned God is considered a male fertility god. [48] The use of horns as a symbol for power dates back to the ancient world.
It derives from the Greek word μονόκερως (monokerōs), a compound word from μόνος (monos) which means "only one" / "single" and κέρας (keras) (neuter gender), which means "horn". The monoceros was first described in Pliny the Elder 's Natural History as a creature with the body of a horse , the head of a stag (minus the ...
Chupacabra (Latin America) – Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock; Churel – Vampiric, female ghost; Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) – Malevolent seductress; Cihuateteo – Ghost of women that died in childbirth; Cikavac – Bird that serves its owner
"Horned Monster" (sometimes the Delgeth) was a large creature that mauled people to death with its thick antlers. Nayenezgani could not approach it directly nor sneak up on it in the grassy field it lived in, so he crawled underneath a gopher tunnel and waited for the beast to come over top of him. Once it did, he stabbed at it from underneath. [5]