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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. Also called huli jing, huyao, huxian, or huzu. A Hulijing.
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
Sumiyoshi sanjin. Sumiyoshi sanjin (住吉三神) is the generic name for the three Shinto gods Sokotsutsu no O no Mikoto (底筒男命), Nakatsutsu no O no Mikoto (中筒男命), and Uwatsutsu no O no Mikoto (表筒男命). [1] The Sumiyoshi sanjin are regarded as the gods of the sea and sailing. They are sometimes referred to as the Sumiyoshi ...
Umibōzu (海坊主, "sea priest") is a giant, black, human-like being and is the figure of a yōkai from Japanese folklore. Other names include Umihōshi (海法師, "sea priest") or Uminyūdō (海入道, "sea priest"). Little is known of the origin of umibōzu but it is a mythical sea-spirit creature and as such has multiple sightings ...
Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey. In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka was a serpentine dragon slain by Tarḫunz (d IM), the Hittite incarnation of the Hurrian god of sky and storm. [1] It is known from Hittite cuneiform tablets found at Çorum-Boğazköy, the former Hittite capital Hattusa. The contest is a ritual of the Hattian ...
Shachihoko. A Shachihoko (鯱・鯱鉾) – or simply Shachi (鯱) – is a sea monster in Japanese folklore with the head of a dragon or tiger lion and the body of a carp [1] covered entirely in black or grey scales. [2] According to the tale, Shachihoko lives in the cold northern ocean. Its broad fins and tail always point up toward heaven ...
The Sun goddess and her sibling the moon god's interpersonal conflicts explain, in Japanese myth, why the Sun and the Moon do not stay in the sky at the same time — their distaste for one another keeps them both turning away from the other. [1] Meanwhile, the sun goddess and the storm god Susanoo's conflicts were intense and bloody. [10]
Sky deity. Jupiter, the sky father of Roman religion and mythology. The sky often has important religious significance. Many religions, both polytheistic and monotheistic, have deities associated with the sky. The daytime sky deities are typically distinct from the nighttime ones. Stith Thompson 's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature reflects this ...