Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Perhaps the first recorded merman was the Assyrian-Babylonian sea-god Ea (called Enki by the Sumerians), linked to the figure known to the Greeks as Oannes. [1] However, while some popular writers have equated Oannes of the Greek period to the god Ea (and to Dagon), [2] [3] Oannes was rather one of the apkallu servants to Ea.
Merfolk, Merpeople, or simply Mer refers to humanoid creatures that live in deep waters like Mermaids, Sirens, Cecaelia etc. In English, female merfolk are called mermaids, although in a strict sense, mermaids are confined to beings who are half-woman and half-fish in appearance; male merfolk are called mermen. Depending on the story, they can ...
Toggle References subsection. ... a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the ... is known from biblical glosses [7] [9 ...
Of course, no discussion of mermaids can be made without referencing the original “The Little Mermaid,” which Disney released in theaters in November 1989 to much critical acclaim that ...
Name Alternate Names Religion(s) Type Domain(s) Abatur: Abatur Rama, Abatur Muzania, Ancient of Days, Third Life, Yawar, Bhaq Ziwa Mandaeism: Uthra
Ikatere, a fish god, the father of all the sea creatures including mermaids. Kiwa, a guardian of the sea. Rongomai, a whale god. Ruahine, an eel god. Taniwha, deities or monsters (often take forms resembling dragons). Tangaroa, god of the sea. Tawhirimātea, god of the weather, rain, storms and wind; Tinirau, a guardian of the sea.
The jackal seems to be designated in Hebrew by three different names: shû'ãl, "the digger"; 'íyyîm, "the howlers"; and tãn, "the stretcher", although we are unable to state the differences marked by these three names, numerous references may be found throughout the Bible to the jackal's howlings and gregarious habits.
Rahab (Biblical Hebrew: רַהַב, romanized: Rahaḇ, lit. 'blusterer') is used in the Hebrew Bible to indicate pride or arrogance, a mystical sea monster, as an emblematic or poetic name for Egypt, [1] and for the sea. [2] Raḥab or Rachav (Hebrew: רָחָב, romanized: raḥaḇ, lit. 'spacious place') is a term for the Abyss.