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List Of Legendary Creatures (A)
* Á Bao A Qu ( Malay) – Entity that lives in the Tower of Victory in Chitor. * Aatxe (Basque) – Bull spirit. * Abaasy (Yakuts) – Iron-toothed demons. * Abada ( African) – Unicorn that inhabits the African Congo. * Äbädä (Tatar) – Forest spirit. * Abaia (Melanesia) – Huge magical eel. * Abarimon ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Savage humanoid with backward feet. * Abath ( Malay) – One-horned animal. * Abura-sumashi (Japanese) – Creature from a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture. * Acephali (Greek) – Headless humanoids. * Acheri (Mitologia Hindu) – Disease-bringing ghost. * Achiyalabopa (Pueblo) – Huge bird god. * Achlis ( Roman) – Curious elk. * Adar Llwch Gwin ( Welsh) – Giant birds that understand human languages. * Adaro (Solomon Islands) – Malevolent merfolk. * Adhene ( Manx) – Nature spirit. * Adlet (Inuit) – Vampiric dog-human hybrid * Adroanzi ( Lugbara) – Nature spirit. * Adze (Ewe people) – African vampiric-forest being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilibin Alkonost
Bilibin (russian: Били́бин), or Bilibina (feminine; Били́бина), is a common Russian surname. It may refer to: * Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942), Russian illustrator and stage designer * Viktor Bilibin (1859-1908), Russian humourist writer and playwright * Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin (russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Били́бин; 19 May 1901 in Rostov – 4 May 1952 in Leningrad) was a Soviet geologist. Biography Between 1919-1921 he served in the Red Army. In 1926 he graduated f ... (1901—1952), Russian geologist {{disambiguation Russian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abarimon
Abarimon or antipode in mythology are people whose feet are turned backwards, but in spite of this handicap were able to run at great speed. In Europe, this tribe was first described by Pliny the Elder, in his book, ''Natural History'' (VII 11), who considered them to be native to India. A similar tale is recounted by Aulus Gellius in ''Attic Nights''. They lived side by side with wild animals and attempts to capture them failed because they were so savage. Pliny refers to information that originates from Baiton, which was Alexander the Great's Land Surveyor. Baiton says that the ''abarimons'' could only breathe the air in their own domestic valleys. Because of the special quality of air, which meant if it was breathed for a long period of time, it would be impossible to breathe any other type of air. Therefore the inhabitants were unable to leave the valley and live anywhere else. And so it was impossible to capture them and bring them to the courts of a distant ruler, or to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adar Llwch Gwin
A legendary creature from Welsh tradition depicted as very large and intelligent birds, often considered to be related to the griffin,Rose, Carol: ''Giants, Monsters and Dragons''. Norton 2000. Lore The Adar Llwch Gwin were given to a warrior named Drudwas ap TryffinMatson, Gienna: ''Celtic Mythology A to Z'', page 1. Chelsea House, 2004. by his fairy wife. The name derives from the Welsh words ''adar'' ("bird"), ''llwch'' ("dust"), and ''gwin'' ("wine"). These birds were said to understand human speech and to obey whatever command was given to them by their master. However, when Drudwas was about to do battle with the hero Arthur he commanded them to kill the first man to enter the battle. Arthur himself was delayed and the birds ultimately turned on Drudwas when he walked onto the battlefield first, tearing him to pieces. A WELSH CLASSICAL DICTIONARY page 232. Later, in medieval Welsh poetry, the phrase ''Adar Llwch Gwin'' came to describe all types of raptors including ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Mythology
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans. One of a wide variety of genres of Roman folklore, ''Roman mythology'' may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period. Roman mythology draws from the mythology of the Italic peoples and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European mythology. Roman mythology also draws directly on Greek mythology, potentially as early as Rome's protohistory, but primarily during the Hellenistic period of Greek influence and through the Roman conquest of Greece, via the artistic imitation of Greek literary models by Roman authors. The Romans identified their own gods with those of the ancient Greeks—who were closely historically related in some cases, such as Zeus and Jupiter—and reinterpreted myths about Greek deities under the names of their Roman counterparts. Greek and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achlis
{{Refimprove, date=August 2013 The achlis was one of a number of strange creatures listed in Roman mythology by Pliny the Elder in the 1st century BC. He described it as saying it looked somewhat like an elk, though it bore some very strange characteristics. It was said its upper lip was so large that it had to graze backwards to avoid its lip falling over its mouth. A great problem because its back legs had no joints, forcing it to sleep standing up or leaning against a tree. This allowed hunters a relatively easy way to catch them. They chopped halfway through the tree where the creature slept and when the achlis put any weight against it he fell onto the ground. Because of its back legs, it could not get to its feet fast enough to get away. See also *Hugag In American folklore, the hugag is a fearsome critter resembling a hippopotamus with an extensive upper-lip, preventing it from grazing, and joint-less legs preventing it from lying down. Name usage The word hugag well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pueblo
In the Southwestern United States, Pueblo (capitalized) refers to the Native tribes of Puebloans having fixed-location communities with permanent buildings which also are called pueblos (lowercased). The Spanish explorers of northern New Spain used the term ''pueblo'' to refer to permanent indigenous towns they found in the region, mainly in New Mexico and parts of Arizona, in the former province of Nuevo México. This term continued to be used to describe the communities housed in apartment structures built of stone, adobe mud, and other local material. The structures were usually multi-storied buildings surrounding an open plaza, with rooms accessible only through ladders raised/lowered by the inhabitants, thus protecting them from break-ins and unwanted guests. Larger pueblos were occupied by hundreds to thousands of Puebloan people. Various federally recognized tribes have traditionally resided in pueblos of such design. Later Pueblo Deco and modern Pueblo Revival architectu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achiyalabopa
Achiyalabopa was a huge bird god of the Pueblo people. He is described as being of extraordinary size and having rainbow-colored feathers as sharp as knives. It was considered a celestial Celestial may refer to: Science * Objects or events seen in the sky and the following astronomical terms: ** Astronomical object, a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists in the observable universe ** Celes ... creature and may have once been attributed to the whole of creation. ReferencesGodchecker.com entry on Achiyalabopa Legendary birds Gods of the indigenous peoples of North America Pueblo culture Stellar gods {{NorthAm-myth-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acheri (legendary Creature)
An Acheri is the ghost or spirit of a little girl who was either murdered or abused and left to die. Acheris are also referred to as "hill fairies." They are often depicted with dark or unnatural eyes, a skeletal appearance, and a skin dress. It is said that they sleep during the day in the mountains or hilltops and become active at night. They sing while playing a small tam-tam, and their voices are omens of the death of the person who hears it, or somebody (especially a child) close to that person. They are also said to bring disease to children (and sometimes others) who come in contact with them. The Acheri are also said to bring death to the elderly or other people who are quite ill. Legend says to protect yourself from their curse, one must wear a bright red ribbon or red string tied around one's neck. Alternatively, one may wear red clothes or pearl A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Mythology
A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the Cosmogony, origin and Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, nature of the world, the lives and activities of List of Greek mythological figures, deities, Greek hero cult, heroes, and List of Greek mythological creatures, mythological creatures, and the origins and significance of the ancient Greeks' own cult (religious practice), cult and ritual practices. Modern scholars study the myths to shed light on the religious and political institutions of ancient Greece, and to better understand the nature of myth-making itself. The Greek myths were initially propagated in an oral tradition, oral-poetic tradition most likely by Minoan civilization, Minoan and Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean singers starting in the 18th century BC; eventually the myths of the heroes of the Trojan War and its after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headless Men
Various species of mythical headless men were rumoured, in antiquity and later, to inhabit remote parts of the world. They are variously known as ''akephaloi'' (Greek ἀκέφαλοι, "headless ones") or Blemmyes ( la, Blemmyae; gr, βλέμμυες) and described as lacking a head, with their facial features on their chest. These were at first described as inhabitants of ancient Libya or the Nile system (Aethiopia). Later traditions confined their habitat to a particular island in the Brisone River, or shifted it to India. Blemmyes are said to occur in two types: with eyes on the chest or with the eyes on the shoulders. Etymology Various etymologies had been proposed for the origins of the name "Blemmyes", and the question is considered unsettled. In antiquity, the actual tribe known as the Blemmyes were said to be named eponymously after King Blemys (Βλέμυς), according to Nonnus's 5th century epic '' Dionysiaca'', but no lore about headlessness is attached to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumamoto Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture to the northeast, Miyazaki Prefecture to the southeast, and Kagoshima Prefecture to the south. Kumamoto is the capital and largest city of Kumamoto Prefecture, with other major cities including Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Yatsushiro, Amakusa, Kumamoto, Amakusa, and Tamana, Kumamoto, Tamana. Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the center of Kyūshū on the coast of the Ariake Sea, across from Nagasaki Prefecture, with the mainland separated from the East China Sea by the Amakusa Archipelago. Kumamoto Prefecture is home to Mount Aso, the largest active volcano in Japan and among the largest in the world, with its peak above sea level. History Historically, the area was called Higo Province; and the province was renamed Kumamoto during the Meiji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Mythology
Japanese mythology is a collection of traditional stories, folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the Japanese archipelago. Shinto and Buddhist traditions are the cornerstones of Japanese mythology. The history of thousands of years of contact with Korea, Ainu, and Okinawan myths are also key influences in Japanese mythology. Japanese myths are tied to the topography of the archipelago as well as agriculturally-based folk religion, and the Shinto pantheon holds countless ''kami'' (Japanese for " god(s)" or "spirits"). This article will discuss cosmogony, important deities, modern interpretations, cultural significance, and the influence of these myths. Two important sources for Japanese myths as they are recognized today are the ''Kojiki'' and the '' Nihon Shoki''. The ''Kojiki'', or "Record of Ancient Matters," is the oldest surviving account of Japan's myths, legends, and history. Additionally, the ''Shintōshū'' describes the origins of Japanese deities from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
