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Mythological Creature

Azakel

Azakel

Liebe ist für alle da
Name a Mythological Creature you like here. Any one from any culture, I will start.
Phoenix:
by Micha F. Lindemans

In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, the phoenix is a mythical bird and associated with the Egyptian sun-god Re and the Greek Phoibos (Apollo). According to the Greeks the bird lives in Arabia, nearby a cool well. Each morning at dawn, it would bathe in the water and sing such a beautiful song, that the sun-god stops his chariot to listen. There exists only one phoenix at the time.

When it felt its death approaching (every 500 or 1461 years), it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it on fire, and was consumed by the flames. When it was burned, a new phoenix sprang forth from the pyre. It then embalmed the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of myrrh and flew with it to Heliopolis ("city of the sun"). There it would deposit the egg on the altar of the sun god.

In Egypt is was usually depicted as a heron, but in the classic literature as a peacock, or an eagle. The phoenix symbolizes immortality, resurrection, and life after death. In that aspect it was often placed on sarcophagi. It is associated with the Egyptian Benu, the Garuda of the Hindus, and the Chinese Feng-huang.

Judaic lore mentions that the phoenix achieved its unique status as an immortal bird because it refrained from bothering the overburdened Noah during the Flood voyage (Sanh. 108b).

  • Also known as: Phoinix
  • Pronunciation: fee'-niks
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SLEIPNIR

From Wikipedia:

In Norse mythology, Sleipnir is Odin's magical eight-legged steed, and the greatest of all horses. His name means smooth or gliding, and is related to the English word "slippery". One popular image of Sleipnir is from the Ardre image stones, which are a collection of ten rune and image stones, dated to the eighth through eleventh centuries.

Thor, the Giant-Slayer, was away from Asgard slaying giants in the north, when a hrimthurs disguised as a human stonemason appeared, offering to rebuild the wall all around Asgard in exchange for the sun, the moon, and fair Freyja. The gods agreed, thinking that it would be good, since part of the wall was crumbling, and also believing the giant would never be able to complete it in the agreed upon six month time frame. The giant asked one thing: the use of his gray stallion, Svadilfari (literally, "slave", or possibly "ill-fated"). Loki quickly agreed before any of the other gods could reply.

The work began. Using the stallion, the giant began building the wall, and was well on his way to receiving the sun, the moon, and Freyja. The gods, seeing this, became furious at Loki, and said if they lost the sun, the moon, and Freyja, they would torture Loki eternally (which happened later anyway). Then, as Svadilfari was dragging the final brick to complete the wall back to Asgard, Loki transformed into a beautiful white mare, and led the stallion away, angering the giant. When the giant began tearing down the wall, Thor appeared and smashed the giant on the head with his hammer, Mjollnir.

Loki later gave birth to Sleipnir, the eight-legged steed of Odin, the offspring of the gray stallion Svadilfari and Loki when "he" was the beautiful white mare.

According to the Prose Edda, Loki returned to Asgard and gave the eight-legged gray colt to Odin, telling him that the horse was the swiftest on earth, and could bear Odin over sea, through the air, and to and from the land of the dead. According to Sigrdrífumál in the Poetic Edda, Sleipnir has runes carved on his teeth.

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Azakel

Azakel

Liebe ist für alle da
Ki-lin

by Micha F. Lindemans
A mythical being of Chinese mythology, comparable with the western unicorn. Ki-lin personifies all that is good, pure, and peaceful. It lives in paradise and only visits the world at the birth of a wise philosopher. The unicorn, which can become one thousand year old, is portrayed as a deer with one horn, the tail of an ox, the hooves of a horse, and a body covered with the scales of a fish. It is one of the four Ling.
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The name of the Ki-lin in traditional Chinese format.



Also known as: Qi-lin

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Valjean

Valjean

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Premium Member
I think Rocs are pretty cool. They originated, I believe, in Persian mythology, but spread pretty widely in oriental myth.

A Roc is a huge bird, a raptor of some sort, big enough to carry off elephants as prey. Of course, they will not hesitate to scoop up a human for dinner, should the opportunity present itelf.

I have a bird feeder in my back yard/garden and observe the activity there daily. So far, I've attracted nothing quite this large.
 
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millie153

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Azakel said:
I don't know that one, can you tell us about it.
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hmph cant post url's either :/
Long Cat (Longious Cattus , Feline Maximus) is a long carnivorous mammal. It is valued by humans as being exceedingly LONG. Although Long Cat is so long, fairly rare eye-witness reports and photographic evidence of the creature are on the increase. Long Cat is regarded by certain religious factions as a semi-messianic creature, whereas others consider Long Cat to be a treasured national symbol. The largest known Long Cat colony ever discovered was in Red Wood forest, California in 2004.
Long Cat is not affiliated with Caturday, a Cat-orientated celebration held habitually on SCaturday.
 
Valjean

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Just how long is this elongated feline? Are we talking dachshund long or snake long?
 
rojse

rojse

RF Addict
Mongolian Death Worm



A bright, fat worm, between 0.6 and 1.5m long. Apparently, it spits out a bright yellow poison that is lethal on contact, and can kill victims at a distance with an electrical discharge. It is believed to reside in the Gobi Desert, that lies in both Mongolia and China.
 
Azakel

Azakel

Liebe ist für alle da
Manticore

by Micha F. Lindemans
A monstrous creature which inhabits the forests in Asia, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia and India. The manticore, considered to be the most dangerous predator in these regions, has the body of a lion and a head with human resemblance. The mouth is filled with three rows of razor-sharp teeth and the scaled tail ends in a ball with poisonous darts. The monster stalks through the forest in search of humans. Upon an encounter with a human, the manticore fires a volley of darts at the victim, who dies immediately. This unfortunate person is devoured completely, even the bones and clothing, as well as the possessions this person carried, vanish. When a villager has completely disappeared, this is considered proof of the presence of a manticore.

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Hema

Hema

Sweet n Spicy
Soucouyant

Soucouyant - Monstropedia - the largest encyclopedia about monsters

Soucouyant, also known as Soucoyah, in Trinidad lore appears as an old woman who sheds her skin at night. The skinless phantom flies through the air, usually appearing as a ball of fire and sucks the blood from her victims.

Origin
This blood-sucking shapeshifter belongs to a class of evil spirits known as jumbies.
Thought to be an old woman, the Soucouyant is said to hide her skin under a stone mortar, the one she uses to grind her food.

Main Belief
Skins shed by the Soucouyant are very valuable in order to practice the Obeah magic.
If too much blood is drained, some theories say victims may die and become Soucoyant themselves.
Soucouyant may turn into a fire ball, then enters the house of victims though a hole or a keyhole.

Behaviour/Features
It’s still debatable whether the victim becomes a new Soucoyant or an existing Soucouyant possesses the dead victim's skin.
The Soucouyant must return to her skin by morning, hence possession of the skin by an Obeah gives control over the Soucouyant.
Soucouyants may be stopped by scattering rice or flour at the front of the doorway. They will be forced to stop and count all the grains. As this can’t possibly be achieved before dawn comes so they will lose their power.

How to kill a Soucouyant
A Soucouyant can be killed by visiting her place when she left her skin and sprinkling it with hot pepper, for she will burn to death once they try to put it back on.
 
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CENTAUR
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In Greek mythology, the Centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι (Kéntauroi)) are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attic vase-paintings, they are depicted as the torso of a human joined at the (human's) waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be.

The centaurs were usually said to have been born of Ixion and Nephele (the cloud made in the image of Hera). Another version, however, makes them children of a certain Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. This Centaurus was either the son of Ixion and Nephele (instead of the Centaurs) or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the latter version of the story his twin brother was Lapithus, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.

The most common theory holds that the idea of centaurs came from the first reaction of a non-riding culture, as in the Minoan Aegean world, to nomads who were mounted on horses. The theory goes that such riders would appear as half-man, half-animal. (Bernal Díaz del Castillo reported that the Aztecs had this misapprehension about Spanish cavalrymen.) Horse taming and horseback culture arose first in the southern Horse taming and horseback culturesteppe grasslands of Central Asia, perhaps approximately in modern Kazakhstan.

The Lapith tribe of Thessaly, who were the kinsmen of the Centaurs in myth, were described as the inventors of horse-back riding by Greek writers. The Thessalian tribes also claimed their horse breeds were descended from the centaurs.

Of the various Classical Greek authors who mentioned centaurs, Pindar was the first who describes undoubtedly a combined monster. Previous authors (Homer etc) only use words such as Pheres (Beasts) that could also mean ordinary savage men riding ordinary horses. However, contemporaneous representations of hybrid centaurs can be found in archaic Greek art.

Though female centaurs, called Kentaurides are not mentioned in early Greek literature and art, they do appear occasionally in later antiquity. A Macedonian mosaic of the C4th BCE is one of the earliest examples of the Centauress in art. Ovid also mentions a centauress named Hylonome who committed suicide when her lover Cyllarus was killed in the war with the Lapiths.

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I would imagine that centaurs, with half of their spines perpendicular to the other half, must have had a lot of back problems.
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Nick Soapdish

Nick Soapdish

Secret Agent
As a kid my favorite was always the Cyclops. I'm not sure why... having two eyes seems like a great advantage over having one ...

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rojse

rojse

RF Addict
Minotaur:


A part man, part bull creature, that resided at the centre of a labyrinth in Crete, built to house this fearsome creature.
 
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