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The faun (Latin: Faunus, pronounced [ˈfäu̯nʊs̠]; Ancient Greek: φαῦνος, romanized: phaûnos, pronounced [pʰâu̯nos]) is a half-human and half-goat mythological creature appearing in Greek and Roman mythology. Originally fauns of Roman mythology were ghosts of rustic places, lesser versions of their chief, the god Faunus.
Kuk – Kuk's male form has a frog head while his female form has a snake head. Meretseger – The cobra -headed Egyptian Goddess. Sirin – Half-bird, half-human creature with the head and chest of a woman from Russian folklore; its bird half is generally that of an owl's body. Sobek – The crocodile -headed Egyptian God.
A centaur-like half-human, half-equine creature called Polkan appeared in Russian folk art and lubok prints of the 17th–19th centuries. Polkan is originally based on Pulicane , a half-dog from Andrea da Barberino 's poem I Reali di Francia , which was once popular in the Slavonic world in prosaic translations.
Since 1856 the name Baphomet has been associated with the " Sabbatic Goat " image drawn by Éliphas Lévi, [7] composed of binary elements representing the "symbolization of the equilibrium of opposites": [1] half-human and half-animal, male and female, and good and evil. [2] Lévi's intention was to symbolize his concept of balance, with ...
In Greek mythology, a satyr[a] (Greek: σάτυρος, translit. sátyros, pronounced [sátyros]), also known as a silenus[b] or silenos (Greek: σειληνός, translit. seilēnós [seːlɛːnós]), and sileni (plural), is a male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated erection.
It's not a lamb and it's not a sheep. This animal is actually a baby "geep': half goat, half sheep. No, we're not messing with you. This cutie's name is Butterfly, and she's a pretty rare species and
Homo sapiens × Pan troglodytes. The humanzee (sometimes chuman, manpanzee or chumanzee) is a hypothetical hybrid of chimpanzee and human, thus a form of human–animal hybrid. Serious attempts to create such a hybrid were made by Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov in the 1920s, [1] and possibly by researchers in China in the 1960s, though ...
An alarming video of a baby goat born with a "demonic," human-like face is causing quite the stir on social media. The bizarre-looking animal began to attract attention after Facebook user Samiraa ...