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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Legendary creatures or mythological figures who are a cross between two or more distinct species. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out ...
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
Pixiu (Chinese: 貔貅; pinyin: píxiū; Wade–Giles: pʻi2-hsiu1; 貔貅, OC: * bi qʰu) is a Chinese mythical hybrid creature. Pixiu are considered powerful protectors of the souls of the dead, xian, [1] and feng shui practitioners, and resemble strong, winged lions. A Pixiu is an earth and sea variation [clarification needed ...
The serpopard (also known as monstrous lion) is a mythical animal known from ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian art. The word "serpopard" is a modern coinage. It is a portmanteau of "serpent" and "leopard", derived from the interpretation that the creature represents an animal with the body of a leopard and the long neck and head of a serpent.