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  2. List of dragons in mythology and folklore - Wikipedia

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    Odd-headed dragons are symbolic of male energy while even headed dragons symbolize female energy. Traditionally, a neak is distinguished from the often serpentine Makar and Tao, the former possessing crocodilian traits and the latter possessing feline traits. A dragon princess is the heroine of the creation myth of Cambodia. Filipino dragons ...

  3. Drakaina (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The drakaina was a sacred female spirit dragon generally slain only by gods or demigods. Zeus slew Delphyne and Campe, Apollo slew Python, and Argus Panoptes slew Echidna. [citation needed] Echidna was the mate of Typhon and the mother of a huge brood of monsters, including other dragon-like creatures. According to Hesiod, Echidna gave birth to ...

  4. List of dragons in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Name Origin Notes Acnologia Fairy Tail: Acnologia, also known as The Black Dragon, and fearsomely reputed as The Black Dragon in the Book of Apocalypse and the Herald of New Ages, is a cataclysmically powerful Dragon Slayer that can take the form of a Dragon, that assaulted the Fairy Tail core Mages on Tenrou Island in the Year X784.

  5. Nāga - Wikipedia

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    Mahabharata, Puranas. In various Asian religious traditions, the Nagas (Sanskrit: नाग, romanized: Nāga) [1] are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half- serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art. A female naga is called a Nagi, or a Nagini.

  6. Zennyo Ryūō - Wikipedia

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    The dragon name Zennyo Ryūō is written with Japanese zen 善 "good, goodness; virtuous", nyo 女 "woman; female" or nyo 如 "like; as if; be like; thus" (differentiated with the "mouth radical" 口), and ryūō 龍王 or 竜王 "dragon king". Zennyo is a common theme in Japanese art, usually depicted as a small dragon but sometimes as a human ...

  7. List of The Inheritance Cycle characters - Wikipedia

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    The dragon's name is a play on the word "shuriken". [3] Jarnunvösk was Galbatorix's first dragon, who was royal purple. She was killed by Urgals (deceased, pre-series). Saphira is a female dragon bound to Eragon and a central character of the series. Eragon first encountered her as an egg (believing her to be a rare stone) while hunting in the ...

  8. Dragons in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    Python was the chthonic enemy of Apollo, who slew it and remade its former home his own oracle, the most famous in Greece. In some myths the dragon was called Delphyne. Delphyne was often pictured as being half girl and half snake. There are various versions of Python's birth and death at the hands of Apollo.

  9. List of dragons in film and television - Wikipedia

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    James Gregory (Smrgol, Bryagh) Cosie Costa (Gorbash) Gorbash is the house dragon, Smrgol is Carolinus' dragon, and Bryagh is Ommadon's dragon, there are many other unnamed dragons, including an Asian dragon named Shenzou ridden by one of Carolinus's brothers and a female dragon named Lunarian ridden by another of his brothers.