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Pig-faced women (4 P, 7 F) R. Rusalki (19 P) S. ... Sylphs (12 P) Pages in category "Female legendary creatures" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
Scylla and Charybdis, sea monsters living on opposite sides of a narrow strait; The Sirens, women combined with birds, whose songs lured sailors to wreck their ships; The Sphinx, the head of a woman and the body of a lion, said to have guarded the entrance to the city of Thebes; Styx, an oceanid and wife of Pallas
It is not known whether the name Nereus was known to Homer or not, but the name of the Nereids is attested before it, and can be found in the Iliad. [3] Since Nereus only has relevance as the father of the Nereids, it has been suggested that his name could actually be derived from that of his daughters; [4] while the derivation of the Nereids from Nereus, as a patronymic, has also been ...
The "woman-fish" (or peche mujer in modern Spanish [300]) [am]) was the name given to the creature among the Spaniards, but the sources also state it was called "duyon" by the indigenous people. [ 301 ] [ 298 ] [ an ] and it is assumed the actual creature was a dugong (according to modern translators' notes).
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife is not the only work of Edo-period art to depict erotic relations between a woman and an octopus. Some early netsuke carvings show cephalopods fondling nude women. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Hokusai's contemporary Yanagawa Shigenobu created an image of a woman receiving cunnilingus from an octopus very similar to Hokusai's ...
Its name is a longer version of the word 'ama', and its subject matter involves female divers. Ama-San , a 2016 documentary film by Portuguese director Cláudia Varejão, that follows the daily life of three Japanese women who have been diving together, for 30 years, in a small fishing village on the Shima Peninsula .
Photos of each specimen show the variations in color and the corn-on-the-cob-like pattern covering their five arms. The deep-sea creatures were found among rocky and pebbly areas, scientists said.
The Bathysphere on display at the National Geographic museum in 2009. The Bathysphere (from Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús) 'deep' and σφαῖρα (sphaîra) 'sphere') was a unique spherical deep-sea submersible which was unpowered and lowered into the ocean on a cable, and was used to conduct a series of dives off the coast of Bermuda from 1930 to 1934.