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Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large, semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.The term “crocodile” is sometimes used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (both members of the family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (both ...
A crocodile-like Makara as Varuna's animal vehicle. Makara is a Sanskrit word which means "sea-animal, crocodile". [3]Josef Friedrich Kohl of Würzburg University and several German scientists argued that makara is based on the dugong instead, based on his reading of Jain text of Sūryaprajñapti.
Crocodile skin either refers to the skin of a live crocodile or a leather made from dead crocodile hide. It has multiple applications across the fashion industry such as use for bags, shoes, and upholstery after being farmed and treated in specialist farms and tanneries.
Horus on the Crocodiles is a motif found on ancient Egyptian healing amulets from the Third Intermediate Period until the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty, as well as on larger cippi and stelae. Both the portable amulets and the larger statues are sometimes referred to simply as Horus stelae .
Ancient Egypt had Sobek, the crocodile-headed god, with his cult-city Crocodilopolis, as well as Taweret, the goddess of childbirth and fertility, with the back and tail of a crocodile. [7] In Hinduism, Varuna, a Vedic and Hindu god, rides a makara, a water-beast like a crocodile, [14] [15] and he is called Nāgarāja, lord of snakes. [15]
Detail of a panolong with a naga motif, from the National Museum of Anthropology. Okir, also spelled okil or ukkil, is the term for rectilinear and curvilinear plant-based designs and folk motifs that can be usually found among the Moro and Lumad people of the Southern Philippines, as well as parts of Sabah.
A green bath toy crocodile, known for different jobs, such as a doctor and a sheriff cowboy. Tick-Tock Peter Pan (1953 film) The crocodile who swallowed an alarm clock and is Captain Hook's biggest fear. Victor 64 Zoo Lane: A large, green crocodile, who is the main bully in Waterlilly Lake. Wally Gator Wally Gator: An alligator prone to mishaps.
The crocodile was one of several animals the Egyptians mummified. [171] West African peoples also associated crocodiles with water deities. During the Benin Empire, crocodiles symbolised the power of the oba (king) and linked him to the life-giving rivers. [172] The Leviathan described in the Book of Job may have been based on a crocodile. [173]