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This list includes names of mythical creatures such as the griffin, lamia, siren and unicorn, which have been applied to real animals in some older translations of the Bible due to misunderstandings or educational prejudices of the Greek and Latin translators.
The chalkydri and phoenixes are described as creatures 900 measures in size with the head of a crocodile and the feet and tail like that of a lion, each having twelve wings, and are empurpled like the color of the rainbow. Both the chalkydri and phoenixes are referred to as "flying elements of the Sun" in the Second Book of Enoch.
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Merfolk are humanoid aquatic creatures with fish-like characteristics in Magic: The Gathering. Merfolk are humanoid aquatic creatures with fish-like characteristics in Spectromancer. In One Piece, the Merfolk are among the different races in the anime and one of the two types that dwell underwater (the other being the Fishmen).
Leviathan also figures in the Hebrew Bible as a metaphor for a powerful enemy, notably Babylon (Isaiah 27:1). Some 19th-century scholars pragmatically interpreted it as referring to large aquatic creatures, such as the crocodile. [4] The word later came to be used as a term for great whale and for sea monsters in general.
The Gill-man from Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) [10] The Gill-man from The She-Creature (1956) [11] The Gill-man from The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1958) [11] The Gill-men from City Under the Sea (1965) [12] The titular creatures from Humanoids from the Deep (1980) The mutant from Leviathan (1989) The aquatic aliens from The Abyss (1989)
Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and Leviathan (under sea). From an illuminated manuscript, 13th century AD. Behemoth (/ b ɪ ˈ h iː m ə θ, ˈ b iː ə-/; Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ) is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation; he is paired with the other chaos-monster ...
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