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Anaye - (Navajo) various monsters that take the forms of animals, living objects and other things. Derived from a time where men and women bet on who would last the longest without the other sex and the women pleasuring themselves with whatever random things they thought would do the job, which caused their chosen toys to father them monstrous ...
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 ...
An image of humans battling a Namazu. In Japanese mythology, the Namazu or Ōnamazu (大 鯰) is a giant underground catfish who causes earthquakes.. The creature lives under the islands of Japan and is guarded by the god Takemikazuchi enshrined at Kashima, who restrains the catfish with a stone.
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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. Fuzhu, a Chinese deer with four horns, possessing a gentle countenance, a likeness to be clean, and usually appears during periods of ...
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Swordfish are ectothermic animals. Along with some species of sharks , they have special organs next to their eyes called heater cells which function to heat their eyes and brains. [ 13 ] Their eyes are heated to temperatures measured between 10 and 15 °C (18 and 27 °F) above the surrounding water temperature; this heating greatly improves ...
The ahuizotl (from the Classical Nahuatl: āhuitzotl for "spiny aquatic thing", a.k.a. "water dog") is a legendary creature in Aztec mythology. [2] It is said to lure people to their deaths. [3]