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In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
The name comes from the Greek "drakeîn" meaning "to see clearly". [7] Hydra, also called the Lernaean Hydra, from Greek Mythology is described as a dragon-like animal; Ladon from Greek mythology; Python, from Greek mythology, the snake killed by Apollo; Typhon from Greek mythology is often thought of as a dragon; Agathodaemon
The great red dragon of the Hayholt, this dragon was eventually turned into the Dragonbone Chair, and was mythically slain by High King Prester John. It killed three kings of the Hayholt. Smaug: The Hobbit: Tolkien [A 1] A greedy and wicked golden-red dragon who slaughtered Thrór's dwarf clan along with the town of Dale and took the dwarves ...
Azure Dragon, the animal associated with the East in the Chinese Four Symbols, mythological creatures in the Chinese constellations; Qiulong, contradictorily defined as both "horned dragon" and "hornless dragon" Zhulong was a giant red draconic solar deity in Chinese mythology. It supposedly had a human's face and snake's body, created day and ...
The drakaina was a sacred female spirit dragon generally slain only by gods or demigods. Zeus slew Delphyne and Campe, Apollo slew Python, and Argus Panoptes slew Echidna. [citation needed] Echidna was the mate of Typhon and the mother of a huge brood of monsters, including
Feilian, god of the wind who is a winged dragon with the head of a deer and tail of a snake. Feilong, winged legendary creature that flies among clouds. Fish in Chinese mythology; Four Perils; Four Symbols, also called Sixiang, four legendary animals that represent the points of the compass. Fox spirit, a famous mythological fox-like creature ...
This is a list of lists of dragons. List of dragons in mythology and folklore. Dragons in Greek mythology; Germanic dragon; Slavic dragon; European dragon; Chinese ...
The name also migrated to Eastern Europe, assumed the form "azhdaja" and the meaning "dragon", "dragoness" or "water snake" in the Balkanic and Slavic languages. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] [ 47 ] Despite the negative aspect of Aži Dahāka in mythology, dragons have been used on some banners of war throughout the history of Iranian peoples.