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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.
Peryton. Artist's impression of a peryton. The peryton is a mythological hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird. The peryton was first named by Jorge Luis Borges in his 1957 Book of Imaginary Beings, using the fictional device of a supposedly long-lost medieval manuscript.
The most prominent hybrid in Hindu iconography is elephant-headed Ganesha, god of wisdom, knowledge and new beginnings. Both Nāga and Garuda are non-hybrid mythical animals (snake and bird, respectively) in their early attestations, but become partly human hybrids in later iconography.
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Category. : Mythological human–animal hybrids. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological human–animal hybrids. Legendary and mythical creatures which have combined traits of humans and one or more species of non-human animals.
Greek mythology. Other name (s) hippalektryon, cock-horse. Country. Greece. A hippalectryon, or hippalektryon (Greek: ἱππαλεκτρυών), is a type of fantastic hybrid creature of Ancient Greek folklore; half- horse (front) and half- rooster (hind), including the tail, wings and hind legs. Its colour varies between yellow and reddish.
Garuda – a mythical creature and Demigod from Indian sub-continent; Griffin, a.k.a. griffon or gryphon – a lion/eagle hybrid; Hybrid creatures in mythology; Kotobuki – a Japanese Chimera with the parts of the animals on the Chinese Zodiac; Lamassu – an Assyrian deity described to be bull/lion/eagle/human hybrid; List of hybrid creatures ...
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