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These are the 14 most badass mythical creatures, ... reports dating back to a mention in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History in 79 A.D. The Basilisk was often referred to as the king of serpents ...
Basan, a fire-breathing chicken from Japanese mythology; Cockatrice, a chicken-headed dragon or serpent, visually similar to or confused with the Basilisk. Gallic rooster, a symbolic rooster used as an allegory for France; Gullinkambi, a rooster who lives in Valhalla in Norse mythology; Rooster of Barcelos, a mythological rooster from Portugal
The following is a list of lists of legendary creatures, beings and entities from the folklore record. Entries consist of legendary and unique creatures , not of particularly unique individuals of a commonly known species.
Mythic humanoids are legendary, folkloric, or mythological creatures that are part human, or that resemble humans through appearance or character. Each culture has different mythical creatures that come from many different origins, and many of these creatures are humanoids. They are often able to talk and in many stories they guide the hero on ...
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 ...
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BC) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Book of Thoth, a legendary book containing powerful spells and knowledge supposed to have been written by the god Thoth, said to have been buried with the Prince Neferkaptah in Coptos. (Egyptian mythology) Jade Books in Heaven, described in several Daoist cosmographies as existent primordially in the various divine Heavens. These Jade Books are ...