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Sassanid bowl with sitting griffin, gilted silver, from Iran.. The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: grȳps or grȳpus; [1] Late and Medieval Latin: [2] gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
In Genesis 1:17 the stars are set in the firmament. Day 3 – Creating a ring of ocean surrounding a single circular continent. [3] God does not create or make trees and plants, but instead commands the earth to produce them. Day 4 – God puts "lights" in the firmament to "rule over" the day and the night, referring to the "sun" and "moon". [4]
The bull is the most common animal, but there are also lions, bulls with the head of a man in the style of the Assyrian lamassu, [4] and griffins with the heads of eagles and the bodies of lions. [ 5 ]
'heroic, manly') [1] was in Greek mythology and history a Phoenician king of Tyre [2] or Sidon. The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC), born in the city of Halicarnassus under the Achaemenid Empire, estimated that Agenor lived either 1000 or 1600 years prior to his visit to Tyre in 450 BC at the end of the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 ...
The word sphinx comes from the Greek Σφίγξ, associated by folk etymology with the verb σφίγγειν (sphíngēn), meaning "to squeeze", "to tighten up". [5] [6] [7] This name may be derived from the fact that lions kill their prey by strangulation, biting the throat of prey and holding them down until they die.
Erra (sometimes called Irra) is an Akkadian plague god known from an 'epos' [1] of the eighth century BCE. Erra is the god of mayhem and pestilence who is responsible for periods of political confusion. He was assimilated to Nergal at some point. [2]
Rinaldo Enchanted by Armida, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. The Rose from Armida's Garden by Marie Spartali Stillman (1894). In Tasso's epic Jerusalem Delivered (Italian: Gerusalemme liberata), Rinaldo is a fierce and determined warrior who is also honorable and handsome.
The White Stag is a children's book, written and illustrated by Kate Seredy. It won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature and received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award . The White Stag is a mythical retelling that follows the warrior bands of Huns and Magyars across Asia and into Europe, including the life of Attila ...