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  2. Insects in mythology - Wikipedia

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    In an ancient Sumerian poem, a fly helps the goddess Inanna when her husband Dumuzid is being chased by galla demons. [10] Flies also appear on Old Babylonian seals as symbols of Nergal, the god of death [10] and fly-shaped lapis lazuli beads were often worn by many different cultures in ancient Mesopotamia, along with other kinds of fly-jewellery. [10]

  3. Category:Mythological insects - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 10 October 2019, at 16:34 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  4. List of fictional arthropods - Wikipedia

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    Bug Daddy and Chile Bugs Pogo: Ferdy the Ant Ant: Ferda Mravenec: Created by Ondřej Sekora and adapted in an animated TV series in 1984. He is an adventurous, hard working ant who is in love with Miss Ladybird. Gnorm Gnat: Gnat: Gnorm Gnat: A gnat who Davis says plays the "straight man" who sometimes behaves like the character Walter Mitty. [2]

  5. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    So he may have named this one after the mythical tragic King of Thebes, who unknowingly married his own mother." [5] Pseudoeurycea rex (Dunn, 1921) Salamander: Oedipus Rex: Species formerly named Oedipus rex [6] Oedipodrilus oedipus Holt, 1967: Segmented worm: Oedipus Rex [7] Amblytylus peitho Linnavuori, 1997: Leaf bug: Peitho [8] Atomophora ...

  6. Insects in literature - Wikipedia

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    Insects play important roles in around one hundred novels and a hundred short stories in English literature. They are used to portray both positive and negative qualities, more usually negative, including entrapment, stinging, being rapacious, and swarming.

  7. Shoggoth - Wikipedia

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    It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so ...

  8. List of flying mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of flying mythological creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. Adzehate creatures

  9. List of legendary creatures (A) - Wikipedia

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    Anqa – Giant mythical female bird similar to a phoenix. Ani Hyuntikwalaski – Lightning ... This page was last edited on 14 December 2024, at 20:22 (UTC).