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The following is a list of fictional or mythological winged horses. Mythology *The ancient Pegasus is a mythological winged horse. *The Hippalectryon is a half-horse, half-rooster hybrid depicted in ancient Greek art. *Devadatta is the winged flying white horse of Kalki in Hinduism, bestowed by the god Shiva. *In Islam, Al-Buraq was a mythical steed who carried the prophet Muhammad. *Tianma was a winged 'celestial' horse in Chinese folklore. * A Qianlima is a mythical winged horse which originates from the Chinese classics. * In Islamic tradition, Haizum is the horse of the archangel Gabriel. * Tulpar is a winged or swift horse in Turkic mythology. * Uchchaihshravas is a white winged horse, described in Hindu scriptures as one of the supernatural beings which emerged from the churning of the ocean of milk. * The Wind Horse is a winged horse from Tibetan mythology. * The Ethiopian pegasus was born on an island in the Red Sea off the coast of Eritrea. See also *List of winged un ...
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Pegaz Opera Poznań
The PEGAZ 011 ( sr, text=Пегаз, translation=Pegasus) is a medium-range tactical UAV for day and night attack (armed variant), reconnaissance and surveillance missions, target acquisition and designation developed by Military Technical Institute in Serbia and produced by Utva Aviation Industry, subsidiary of Yugoimport SDPR. Its flight autonomy is over 12 hours, and it sends data from the height of 6,000 m. Powered by a two-cylinder boxer type of engine with 32 kW (43 HP), it reaches the maximum flight speed of 200 km/h. The PEGAZ has a maximum weight of 240 kg, including about 50 kg of reconnaissance/surveillance equipment. It is 5.4 m long with a wingspan of 6.34 m. It takes off automatically from improvised runways and performs tasks along pre-programmed flight (optional: catapult). There are two hardpoints for optional air-to-surface missiles for attack variant. Specifications Armament: 2x FT-8D laser guided rocket. See also ...
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Haizum
In Islamic tradition, Haizum ( ar, حيزوم) is the horse of the archangel Gabriel. It is a white, flaming, spiritual horse that has wings like that of a pegasus and can fly swiftly from one cosmic plane to another in a second. Haizum was God's gift to Gabriel for pleasing Him. Also, based on the Authentic Hadith reported In Sahih Muslim, Haizum is the name of an Angel from the 3rd Heaven, whom Allah (God) sent among other angels as reinforcements to help the Muslim veterans who took part in the Legendary Battle of Badr Badr (Arabic: بدر) as a given name below is an Arabic masculine and feminine name given to the "full moon on its fourteenth night" or the ecclesiastical full moon. Badr may refer to: .and it is also one of the oldest and rarest names in the Arabi .... References Horses in mythology Gabriel Islamic legendary creatures {{Islam-stub ...
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List Of Fictional Horses
This is a list of horses and ponies in fictional subjects, excluding hybrid fantasy creatures such as centaurs and unicorns but including pegasi; their cousins, donkeys and zebras; and cross-breed mules and zebroids. Horses in literature *Abelard, Halt's trained small horse/pony in the ''Ranger's Apprentice'' series by John Flanagan *Acorn, Davy's horse in the ''Chaos Walking'' series by Patrick Ness *Albino, from '' Thunderhead'' by Mary O'Hara *Alfonso (or, in Swedish, Lilla Gubben), in the ''Pippi Longstocking'' series by Astrid Lindgren *Angharrad, Todd's horse in the ''Chaos Walking'' trilogy by Patrick Ness *Appalachian, from '' Thunderhead'' by Mary O'Hara *Arondel, Bevis's horse in the Middle English romance ''Bevis of Hampton'' *Artax, Atreyu's horse in Michael Ende's ''The Neverending Story'' *Arod, Legolas's horse in ''The Lord of the Rings'' *Athansor, ridden by Peter Lake in Mark Helprin's ''A Winter's Tale'' *Azarax, from ''The Byerley Turk'' by Jeremy James *Azu ...
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List Of Winged Unicorns
A winged unicorn (cerapter, flying unicorn, pegacorn, or unisus) is a fictional ungulate, typically portrayed as a horse, with wings like Pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. In some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, a Latin word for the horn of a unicorn, especially in alchemical texts, or as a pegacorn, a portmanteau of pegasus and unicorn. Description Winged unicorns have been depicted in art. Ancient Achaemenid Assyrian seals depict winged unicorns and winged bulls as representing evil, but winged unicorns can also represent light. Irish poet W. B. Yeats wrote of imagining a winged beast that he associated with ecstatic destruction. The beast took the form of a winged unicorn in his 1907 play ''The Unicorn from the Stars'' and later that of the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem in his poem " The Second Coming". Other representations in media *In ''Sailor Moon SuperS'', a man named Helios, the Guardian Priest the (high priest and guardia ...
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Tibetan Mythology
Tibetan mythology refers to the traditional as well as the religious stories that have been passed down by the Tibetan people. Tibetan mythology consists mainly of national mythology stemming from the Tibetan culture as well as religious mythology from both Tibetan Buddhism and Bön Religion. These myths are often passed down orally, through rituals or through traditional art like sculptures or cave paintings. They also feature a variety of different creatures ranging from gods to spirits to monsters play a significant role in Tibetan mythology with some of these myths have broken into mainstream Western media, with the most notable one being the Abominable Snowman – the Yeti. National mythology National Tibetan mythology stems from the history of the country, and was passed down by word of mouth or works of art such as cave paintings. The latter include gods and sacred mythological creatures like the Five Clawed Great Eagle of the Sky, and also record information about how the ...
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Wind Horse
The wind horse is a symbol of the human soul in the shamanistic tradition of East Asia and Central Asia. In Tibetan Buddhism, it was included as the pivotal element in the center of the four animals symbolizing the cardinal directions and a symbol of the idea of well-being or good fortune. It has also given the name to a type of prayer flag that has the five animals printed on it. Depending on the language, the symbol has slightly different names. * , pronounced ''lungta'', Tibetan for "wind horse" * mn, хийморь, Khiimori, literally "gas horse," semantically "wind horse," colloquial meaning ''soul''. In Tibetan usage In Tibet, a distinction was made between Buddhism (, literally "divine dharma") and folk religion (, "human dharma"). Windhorse was predominantly a feature of the folk culture, a "mundane notion of the layman rather than a Buddhist religious ideal," as Tibetan scholar Samten G. Karmay explains.Karmay, Samten G. ''The Arrow and the Spindle: Studies in His ...
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Samudra-manthana
The Samudra Manthana ( sa, समुद्रमन्थन; ) is a major episode in Hinduism that is elaborated in the Vishnu Purana, a major text of Hinduism. The Samudra Manthana explains the origin of the elixir of eternal life, amrita. Nomenclature *Sāgara manthana (सागरमन्थन) - ''Sāgara'' is another word for ''Samudra'', both meaning a sea or large water body. *Kshirasāgara manthana (क्षीरसागरमन्थन) - ''Kshirasāgara'' means the ocean of milk or milky ocean. ''Kshirasāgara'' = ''Kshira'' (milk) + ''Sāgara'' (ocean or sea). Legend Indra, the King of Svarga, was riding on his divine elephant when he came across the sage Durvasa, who offered him a special garland given to him by an apsara. The deity accepted the garland and placed it on the trunk (sometime the tusks or the head of the elephant in some scriptures) of Airavata (his mount) as a testament to his humility. The flowers had a strong scent that attracted some bees. A ...
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Uchchaihshravas
In Hinduism, Uchchaihshravas ( sa, उच्चैःश्रवस्, Uccaiḥśravas or sa, उच्चैःश्रवा, Uccaiḥśravā, label=none, "long-ears" or "neighing aloud") is a seven-headed flying horse, created during the churning of the milk ocean. It is considered the best of horses, the prototype and the king of the horses. Uchchaihshravas is often described as a ''vahana'' ("vehicle") of Indra (the king of the gods), but is also recorded to be the horse of Bali, the king of the asuras (demons). Uchchaihshravas is said to be snow white in colour. Literature Mahabharata The ''Mahabharata'' mentions that Uchchaihshravas rose from the Samudra Manthana ("churning of the milk ocean") and Indra—the god-king of heaven—seized it and made it his vehicle (vahana). The stallion rose from the ocean along with other treasures like goddess Lakshmi - the goddess of fortune, who chose Vishnu as her consort, and the amrita - the elixir of life. The legend of Uc ...
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Turkic Mythology
Turkic mythology refers to myths and legends told by the Turkic people. It features Tengrist and Shamanist strata of belief along with many other social and cultural constructs related to the nomadic and warrior way of life of Turkic and Mongol peoples in ancient times. Turkic mythology shares numerous points in common with Mongol mythology. Turkic mythology has also been influenced by other local Asiatic and Eurasian mythologies. For example, in Tatar mythology elements of Finnic and Indo-European mythologies co-exist. Beings from Tatar mythology include Äbädä, Alara, Şüräle, Şekä, Pitsen, Tulpar, and Zilant. The ancient Turks apparently practised all the then-current major religions in Inner Asia, such as Tibetan Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Judaism, and Manichaeism, before the majority's conversion to Islam filtered through the mediation of Persian and Central Asian culture, as well as through the preaching of Sufi Muslim wandering ascetics and mystics ( fakirs ...
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Tulpar
Tulpar / ; ba, Толпар, ; tt-Cyrl, Тулпар, ; ky, Тулпар; tr, Tulpar; uz, Tulpor / ; ug, تۇلپار is a winged or swift horse in Turkic mythology (for example, Kazakh and Tatar mythology), similar to Pegasus. Tulpar is also in state emblems of Kazakhstan and Bashkortostan. Tulpar came to be due to the hunting lifestyle of the people of Central Asia. The people hunted with horses, with the company of a bird of prey. These two animals, with the human imagination, formed into one creating the winged horse known as Tulpar. This mythical creature has also been used as state symbols of Kazakhstan, the emblem of which is decorated with two golden Tulpars, the top of a yurt (the yurt is a traditional tent where the Kazakhs lived) and the sun rays. The blue background represents the sky where the Tulpars run. Tulpar is the legendary horse that appears in culture of Turkic-speaking nations (Turks, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, etc.). The association of a bird w ...
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University Of California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic abroad centers. The system is the state's land-grant university. Major publications generally rank most UC campuses as being among the best universities in the world. Six of the campuses, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego are considered Public Ivies, making California the state with the most universities in the nation to hold the title. UC campuses have large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every academic discipline, with UC faculty and researchers having won 71 Nobel Prizes as of 2021. The University of California currently has 10 campuses, a combined student body of 285,862 students, 24,400 faculty members, 1 ...
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