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Budhi Pallien is a fearsome goddess of forests and jungles, who roams northern India, particularly Assam, in the form of a tiger. Kimpurusha were described to be lion-headed beings. Narasiṃha is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu , and is often visualised as having a human torso and lower body, with a lion face and claws.
1722 German woodcut of a werewolf transforming. Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), ichchhadhari naag (shape-shifting cobra) of India, shapeshifting fox spirits of East Asia such as the huli jing of China, the obake of Japan, the Navajo skin-walkers, and gods, goddesses and demons and ...
Stories of shapeshifting within Greek context are old, having been part of the mythological corpus as far back as the Iliad of Homer. Usually those legends include mortals being changed as punishment from a god, or as a reward for their good deeds. In other tales, gods take different forms in order to test or deceive some mortal.
Kihawahine is a Hawaiian shapeshifting lizard goddess . When Kihawahine Mokuhinia Kalama‘ula Kalā‘aiheana, the daughter of the powerful sixteenth-century ruling chief of Māui, Piʻilani, and his wife Lā‘ieloheloheikawai, died, her bones were deified, transforming her into the goddess. [2]
Rakshasas were most often depicted as shape-shifting, fierce-looking, enormous monstrous-looking creatures, with two fangs protruding from the top of the mouth and having sharp, claw-like fingernails. They were shown as being mean, growling beasts, and as insatiable man-eaters that could smell the scent of
Satisfied by the impossibility of such an event, Mahishi, possessing the prowess of both the goddess of prosperity and power, quickly overran Svarga, taking the throne of Indra for herself and forcing the devas into exile. Brahma arranged for Dattatreya to assume the form of Sundara Mahisha, a handsome bovine, who was able to enchant the ...
The word nagual derives from the Nahuatl word nāhualli [naˈwaːlːi], an indigenous religious practitioner, identified by the Spanish as a 'magician'.. In English, the word is often translated as "transforming witch," but translations without negative connotations include "transforming trickster," "shape shifter," "pure spirit," or "pure being."
Manasa, the Hindu goddess of Nagas and curer of snake-bite and sister of Vasuki; Mucalinda, a nāga in Buddhism who protected the Gautama Buddha from the elements after his enlightenment; Naga Seri Gumum, who lives in Tasik Chini, a freshwater lake in Pahang, Malaysia; Padmavati, the Nāgī queen & companion of Dharanendra