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Thelxinoë – name meaning "mind charming" Swan maiden (Multi-cultural) – shapeshifts from human to swan; Caladrius – white bird with healing powers; Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun; Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
While it is part of Greek mythology, it has analogs in many cultures, such as Egyptian and Persian mythology. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by rising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion, while others say that it simply dies and decomposes before being born again. [1]
Bunyip, mythical creature said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes; Daramulum, southeast Australian deity and son of Baiame; Gnowee, solar goddess who searches daily for her lost son; her torch is the sun; Karatgurk, seven sisters who represent the Pleiades star cluster; Kondole, man who became the first whale
The term "dying god" is associated with the works of James Frazer, [4] Jane Ellen Harrison, and their fellow Cambridge Ritualists. [16] At the end of the 19th century, in their The Golden Bough [4] and Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Frazer and Harrison argued that all myths are echoes of rituals, and that all rituals have as their primordial purpose the manipulation of natural ...
False Greek mythology Who? Into what? By whom? Notes Image Ref. Acantha ("thorn") Acanthus: Unclear Acantha was a nymph who supposedly ran away from Apollo's amorous advances and was turned into an acanthus plant, scratching his face when he tried to catch her. This story however is not found in any ancient writer. [39] [40] Amethyste ("non ...
Osiris (/ oʊ ˈ s aɪ r ɪ s /, from Egyptian wsjr) [a] was the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion.
Umay, the goddess of nature, love and fertility in Turkic mythology. Also known as Yer Ana. İye, deities or spirits or natural assets. Baianai, the god of the forest, animals, and hunt in Turkic mythology. Ukulan, the god of water in Turkic mythology