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In particular, Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian mythology celebrated the deeds of the war and hunting god Ninurta, whom the Angim credited with slaying 11 monsters on an expedition to the mountains, including a seven-headed serpent (possibly identical with the Mushmahhu) and Bashmu, whose constellation (despite having a single Head) was later ...
The Dragon protecting the fleece swallows Jason as Athena comes to the rescue. Attic red-figure kylix, c. 480-470 BC. Known as the Dragon of Colchis or the Colchian Dragon (Greek: Δρακων Κολχικος, Drakôn Kolkhikos), this immense serpent, a child of Typhon and Echidna, guarded the Golden Fleece at Colchis. [7]
Ryūjin, the dragon god of the sea in Japanese mythology. Kuzuryū: A nine-headed dragon. Gozuryū: A five-headed dragon. [31] Hai-Riyo: The Hai-Riyo are fabulous composites from Japanese mythology [citation needed]. They have the body, claws, and wings of a bird with the head of a dragon. The Hai-Riyo are related to the Ying-Lung. [32] Uwabami
Bruce Lincoln has proposed that a Proto-Indo-European dragon-slaying myth can be reconstructed as follows: [90] [91] First, the sky gods give cattle to a man named *Tritos ("the third"), who is so named because he is the third man on earth, [90] [91] but a three-headed serpent named * Ng w hi steals them.
Although the Old Testament nowhere identifies the leviathan with the devil, the seven-headed dragon in the Book of Revelation is. [40] By this the battle between God and the primordial chaos monsters shifts to a battle between God and the devil. [41] Only once, in the Book of Job, the leviathan is translated as sea-monster (κῆτος, ketos ...
Horus, god of the king, the sky, war, and protection; Maahes, lion-headed god of war; Menhit, goddess of war, "she who massacres" Montu, falcon-headed god of war, valor, and the Sun; Neith, goddess of war, hunting, and wisdom; Pakhet, goddess of war; Satis, deification of the floods of the Nile River and an early war, hunting, and fertility goddess
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 ...
(Greek mythology) Girdle of Hippolyta, a girdle that was a symbol of Hippolyta's power over the Amazons, and given to her by Ares. Heracles' 9th Labor was to retrieve it. (Greek mythology) Tyet, the ancient Egyptian symbol of the goddess Isis. It seems to be called "the Knot of Isis" because it resembles a knot used to secure the garments that ...