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Deer Woman stories are found in multiple Indigenous American cultures, often told to young children or by young adults and preteens in the communities of the Lakota people (Oceti Sakowin), Ojibwe, Ponca, Omaha, Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Choctaw, Otoe, Osage, Pawnee, and the Haudenosaunee, and those are only the ones that have documented Deer Woman sightings.
In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian hind (Ancient Greek: Κερυνῖτις ἔλαφος Kerynitis elaphos, Latin: Elaphus Cerynitis), was a creature that lived in Ceryneia, [1] Greece and took the form of an enormous female deer, larger than a bull, [1] with golden antlers [2] like a stag, [3] hooves of bronze or brass, [4] and a "dappled hide", [5] that "excelled in swiftness of foot", [6 ...
Deer Woman (Native American) – female human above the waist, deer below. Male version is Elk Man. Eikþyrnir (Norse mythology) – stag which stands upon Valhalla; Goldhorn – white golden-horned antelope; Jackalope (North American) – jackrabbit with antelope horns; Keresh (Jewish) – giant deer of the forest of Bei Ilai
In Native culture, the Deer Woman is a spirit that is sometimes associated with love and fertility. But for those who harm women or children, the spirit becomes murderous and vengeful, often ...
A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BC. Deer have significant roles in the mythology of various peoples located all over the world, such as object of worship, the incarnation of deities, the object of heroic quests and deeds, or as magical disguise or enchantment/curse for princesses and princes in many folk and fairy tales.
ᏗᎵᏍᏙᏗ "dilsdohdi" [1] the "water spider" is said to have first brought fire to the inhabitants of the earth in the basket on her back. [2]Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people – Native American peoples who are Indigenous to the Southeastern Woodlands, and today live primarily in communities in North Carolina (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...
Satyr men, satyr women, and satyr children. Adlet – A human with dog legs. Bes – An Egyptian god with the hindquarters of a lion. Lilitu – A woman with bird legs (and sometimes wings) found in Mesopotamian mythology. Faun – An ancient Roman nature spirit with the body of a man, but the legs and horns of a goat.
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