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The story goes that one day all the creatures of the sea must offer themselves to the monster Leviathan. It is reported that a sailor encountered a sea goat while far at sea. On its horns was carved the sentence, translated as "I am a little sea-animal, yet I traversed three hundred parasangs to offer myself as food to the leviathan." [9] [10]
According to Hyginus, Aegipan was the son of Zeus (some sources say his son Apollo) and Aega (also named Boetis or Aix), [1] and was transferred to the stars. [2] Others again make Aegipan the father of Pan, and state that he as well as his son were represented as half goat and half fish, similar to a satyr. [3]
Sea goat – A creature that is half-goat half-fish. Sea-griffin – A griffin variant with the hindquarters of a fish. Sea-lion – A creature with the head and upper body of a lion and the tail of a fish. Siren – Half-bird, half-woman creature of Greek mythology, who lured sailors to their deaths with their singing voices.
Its name is Latin for "horned goat" or "goat horn" or "having horns like a goat's", and it is commonly represented in the form of a sea goat: a mythical creature that is half goat, half fish. Capricornus is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Claudius Ptolemy.
This sea-goat moves to the right and turns his head back to look at the goddess. This group also appears on Aphrodisian coins from the 3rd century A.D. Aside from aigikampoi , the fish-tailed goats representing Capricorn, [ 18 ] other fish-tailed animals rarely appeared in Greek art, but are more characteristic of the Etruscans.
A myth reported as "Egyptian" in Hyginus's Poetic Astronomy [39] (which would seem [to whom?] to be invented to justify a connection of Pan with Capricorn) [citation needed] says that when Aegipan—that is Pan in his goat-god aspect [40] —was attacked by the monster Typhon, he dived into the river Nile; the parts above the water remained a ...
Members of the goat-antelope subfamily from myth and legend. See also. Category:Fiction about goats; Category:Fictional sheep; ... Sea goat; Sidehill gouger; T.
It has a human head and torso and a goat waist and legs. Goldhorn – also known as Zlatorog; Heiðrún – goat in Norse mythology, which produces mead for the einherjar; Khnum; Satyr – a goat legged human that is associated to the deity Dionysus. Known to be drunk partiers. Sidehill gouger; Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr – Thor's magical goats