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Kedes: the Aeta god of the hunt [11] Okot: the Bicolano forest god whose whistle would lead hunters to their prey [12] Paglingniyalan: the Tagalog god of hunters [2] Sugudun: also called Sugujun; the Manobo god of hunters and trappers [1] True: the Mamanwa deity of the forest and herder of hunting animals [13]
A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BC. Deer have significant roles in the mythology of various peoples located all over the world, such as object of worship, the incarnation of deities, the object of heroic quests and deeds, or as magical disguise or enchantment/curse for princesses and princes in many folk and fairy tales.
The Chronicon Pictum makes Hunor and Magor the two sons of Japheth, which was the son of Noah in the Book of Genesis. [10] [non-primary source needed] Hunor and Magor, hunters like their father, were on a hunting trip when they saw their descendants multiplied and populated the nearby lands, founding the 108 clans of the Scythian nation.
Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The morning dew gathers in their horns and forms the rivers of the world.
In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian hind (Ancient Greek: Κερυνῖτις ἔλαφος Kerynitis elaphos, Latin: Elaphus Cerynitis), was a creature that lived in Ceryneia, [1] Greece and took the form of an enormous female deer, larger than a bull, [1] with golden antlers [2] like a stag, [3] hooves of bronze or brass, [4] and a "dappled hide", [5] that "excelled in swiftness of foot", [6 ...
During the Bronze Age, he was the treated as a protective deity, the son of the Sun god Tiwaz and the goddess Kamrušepa. His partner was "Lady Ala." The pair were invoked along with various mountains and rivers, such as ḪUR.SAG Šarpa (Arısama Dağı near Emirgazi). Runtiya's epithet šarlaimi ("raised") was also the name of a mountain god.
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Pages in category "Mythological deer" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Deer in mythology; A.