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  2. Hippocampus (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937). The hippocampus, or hippocamp or hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1]), sometimes called a "sea-horse" [2] in English, [citation needed] is a mythological creature mentioned in Etruscan, Greek, Phoenician, [3 ...

  3. List of horses in mythology and folklore - Wikipedia

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    Enbarr, Manannán, Niamh, and Lugh's horse, which could travel both land and sea; Kelpie, a mythical Celtic water horse; Liath Macha and Dub Sainglend, or Macha's Grey, Cú Chulainn's chariot horse; known as the king of all horses

  4. List of A Song of Ice and Fire video games - Wikipedia

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    As of 2021, eleven video games based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels and Game of Thrones series have been released. The following table showcases the correspondent title, release date, publisher, developer, and the platforms on which each game was released, along with any other relevant information.

  5. List of characters in mythology novels by Rick Riordan

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    Tyson is close with several characters and magical creatures in the series, including Rainbow the hippocampus, the hellhound Mrs. O'Leary, and the harpy Ella, who eventually becomes his girlfriend. In The Sea of Monsters, Tyson first appears as a huge homeless kid that is taken in as a class project by Merriweather Prep, Percy's school. Tyson ...

  6. Hippocampal subfields - Wikipedia

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    CA3a is the part of the cell band that is most distant from the dentate (and closest to CA1). CA3b is the middle part of the band nearest to the fimbria and fornix connection. CA3c is nearest to the dentate, inserting into the hilus. CA3 overall, has been considered to be the “pacemaker” of the hippocampus.

  7. Themes in A Song of Ice and Fire - Wikipedia

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    Martin intentionally avoids most overt fantasy elements in Ice and Fire, preferring to instead have "carefully rationed magic". [2] He set the Ice and Fire story in an alternate version of Earth or a "secondary world". [14] The story takes place primarily on a continent called Westeros, but also on another continent to the east, known as Essos.

  8. Races and creatures in His Dark Materials - Wikipedia

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    A bear's primary weapons are his immense strength, savage jaws, and razor-sharp claws. He uses these in close combat or when fighting duels with other bears. However, bears use fire hurlers, which are a combination of flame throwers and catapults, against human enemies and outcasts.

  9. Hippogriff - Wikipedia

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    The word hippogriff, also spelled hippogryph, [2] is derived from the Ancient Greek: ἵππος híppos, meaning "horse", and the Italian grifo meaning "griffin" (from Latin gryp or gryphus), which denotes another mythical creature, with the head of an eagle and body of a lion, that is purported to be the father of the hippogriff.