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The most famous Albanian mythological representation of the dualistic struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, is the constant battle between drangue and kulshedra, [28] a conflict that symbolises the cyclic return in the watery and chthonian world of death, accomplishing the cosmic renewal of rebirth. [29]
Bunyip, mythical creature said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes; Daramulum, southeast Australian deity and son of Baiame; Gnowee, solar goddess who searches daily for her lost son; her torch is the sun; Karatgurk, seven sisters who represent the Pleiades star cluster; Kondole, man who became the first whale
In the animated series Storm Hawks, the phoenix is portrayed as a fiery fire-breathing bird. In the animated series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, the pilot episode (even though it aired third) was named "Phoenix", as was the doomed ship of the episode's protagonist, Zachary Foxx. Appropriately, the character's life as an ordinary Ranger ...
In Eiichiro Oda's manga and anime series One Piece, "Phoenix Marco" is a prominent character (a member of the Whitebeard Pirates) who possesses the Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit called the Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Phoenix, which allows him to transform into a phoenix. The Phoenix is portrayed as a powerful cosmic entity in the Marvel Comics ...
Historically, serpents and snakes represent fertility or a creative life force. As snakes shed their skin through sloughing, they are symbols of rebirth, transformation, immortality, and healing. [11] The ouroboros is a symbol of eternity and continual renewal of life. In some Abrahamic traditions, the serpent represents sexual desire. [12]
The term "dying god" is associated with the works of James Frazer, [4] Jane Ellen Harrison, and their fellow Cambridge Ritualists. [16] At the end of the 19th century, in their The Golden Bough [4] and Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Frazer and Harrison argued that all myths are echoes of rituals, and that all rituals have as their primordial purpose the manipulation of natural ...
Balor of the Evil Eye – king of the Fomorians, a race of giants, and a cyclops (Irish) Catoblepas; Cockatrice; Gorgon – woman with hair made of living, venomous snakes, and eyes that turned men to stone (Greek): Medusa – once a human, Medusa and her sisters were cursed to be terrible monsters by Athena (Greek)
Dokkaebi – A mythical being in Korean folklore or fairy tales. Although usually frightening, it could also represent a humorous, grotesque-looking ogre or goblin. Ebu Gogo – Human-like creatures in Indonesian mythology. Garuda – Vishnu's bird-like mount. Ghoul – Monstrous flesh-eating spirits, jinn, or shayatin associated with graveyards.