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Enbarr ( Irish ) – Manann's horse, capable of traversing land and sea. Hippocampus ( Greek ) – Horse with a fish tail. Ichthyocentaurs ( Greek ) – Upper body of a man, the lower front of a horse, tail of a fish. Kelpie ( Scottish ) – Water horse. Morvarc'h ( Breton ) – Legendary horse that could gallop on the waves.
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
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 ...
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.
Mythic humanoids are legendary, folkloric, or mythological creatures that are part human, or that resemble humans through appearance or character. Each culture has different mythical creatures that come from many different origins, and many of these creatures are humanoids .
Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...
Sacred mountains. The north face of Mount Kailash, a mountain in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China which is considered sacred by four religions. Sacred mountains are central to certain religions, and are usually the subjects of many legends. For many, the most symbolic aspect of a mountain is the peak because it is believed that it is ...