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Caladrius ( Roman ) – white bird with healing powers. Chalkydri ( Jewish ) – heavenly creatures of the Sun. Chamrosh ( Persian mythology ) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird. Cinnamon bird ( Greek ) – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon. Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death.
Laistrygon. Home to a tribe of giant cannibals that Odysseus encountered on his way back home from the Trojan War . Meropis. A gigantic island created purely as a parody of Plato 's Atlantis . Mount Olympus. "Olympos" was the name of the home of the Twelve Olympian gods of the ancient Greek world.
Mount Meru ( Sanskrit / Pali: मेरु), also known as Sumeru, Sineru, or Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the centre of all the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes. [ 1] The mountain is also mentioned in some scriptures of non-Indian based religions ...
A mad dragon which used to live in Mount Kanlaon in Negros Island. According to Hiligaynon mythology, it was defeated by the epic heroes, Laon and Kan. [27] Vietnamese dragons: Rồng or Long: A dragon that is represented with a spiral tail and a long fiery sword-fin. Dragons were personified as a caring mother with her children or a pair of ...
This is a list of flying mythological creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. Adzehate creatures. Angel. Arkan Sonney. Basilisk. Boobrie. Cockatrice. Djinn.
The wisest, most powerful daitengu of all is Sōjōbō of Mount Kurama, the king and god of all tengu. Danzaburou-danuki A bake-danuki from Sado Island. One of the three most famous tanuki. Datsue-ba An old woman in the Underworld who removes the clothes (or skin, if unclothed) of the dead and gives them to Keneō to be weighed. Dodomeki
This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories. Mythology portal. This category concerns mythological creatures: creatures that are present in mythology . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological creatures.
Europa (consort of Zeus) Europa on the back of Zeus turned into a bull. A fresco at Pompeii, contemporaneous with Ovid. In Greek mythology, Europa ( / jʊəˈroʊpə, jə -/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē, Attic Greek pronunciation: [eu̯.rɔ̌ː.pɛː]) was a Phoenician princess from Tyre and the mother of King Minos of Crete.