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A beautiful valley full of nymphs. Okeanos: The cosmic river encircling the Earth in Ancient Greek cosmology, also sometimes depicted as one of the Titan gods. Panchaia (Pangaia) A group of islands South of the Arabian peninsula inhabited by several tribes and rich with scented oils. Assumed by some to be the birthplace of the Olympian gods ...
In the oldest images of phoenixes on record these nimbuses often have seven rays, like Helios (the Greek personification of the Sun). [16] Pliny the Elder [17] also describes the bird as having a crest of feathers on its head, [15] and Ezekiel the Dramatist compared it to a rooster. [18] The phoenix came to be associated with specific colors ...
Ba – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird; Baba Yaga – Forest spirit and hag; Babi ngepet – Monster boar; Baccoo (Guyanese/Surinamese) – Malevolent little people; Badalisc – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps; Bagiennik – Malevolent water spirit
The forest is largely uninhabitable, being a saturated "hotspot" of unpredictable wild magic induced genetic mutations and dangerous legendary creatures, and is regarded by ponies as the most hostile region within Equestria's borders. In Frozen 2, the Enchanted Forest is home to spirits of fire, earth, wind and water. Elsa journeys there to ...
Himavanta is a vast, deep, sacred forest atop Himmapan Mountain. There are a total 84,000 intricate peaks and seven enormous ponds. The beautiful forest is home to gods and the dwelling place for sorcerers, priests, hermits, clerics, and bizarre mythical creatures. [8]
The bird's name is given as Karšiptar or Karšift. [28] According to scholarship, its name would mean "black-winged" (from Karši-"black", cognate to Sanskrit kṛṣṇá and Slavic chjerno; and ptar-, cognate to Greek pterón). The name possibly refers to a raven, since this bird plays the role of divine messenger in several mythologies. [29 ...
Jingwei, a bird who is determined to dry up the sea. It was morphed from a girl who drowned in the sea. Jiufeng or Nine-headed Bird, an earlier version of the Fenghuang. Jinnalaluo, divine creatures with human bodies and animal heads. Jiuweihu, a huli jing with nine-tails; Jueyuan (mythology), creatures that look similar to monkeys.
Dalian, Liaoning, China: An example of a real bird: a peacock of the family Phasianidae, in the "Singing Birds' Forest" (鸟语林) The line between fantastic, mythological, or legendary birds and actually real exotic birds is sometimes blurred. Sometimes, the student of the real versus the unreal becomes challenged.