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Sassanid bowl with sitting griffin, gilted silver, from Iran.. The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: gryps or grypus; [1] Late and Medieval Latin: [2] gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
A cartoon griffin named Rooty appears on bottles of Sprecher Root Beer. Vauxhall Motors of Luton, England, uses the griffin as its trademark. The 367th Training Support Squadron unit patch is a Griffin holding a Globe and Torch. Merv Griffin Entertainment used a griffin as its mascot & logo in its heyday.
Articles relating to griffins and their depictions, legendary creatures with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Griffins .
The griffin in classical mythology was depicted as a lion-eagle creature. Griffin-like creatures were depicted in Egyptian and Persian mythology. The first beast in the first vision of the biblical prophet Daniel resembled a winged lion. The winged lion was the heraldic symbol of Mark the Evangelist. The goetic demon Vapula was depicted as a ...
Griffin Callenreese, in the Japanese manga and anime series Banana Fish; Griffin Castillo, in the American television soap opera All My Children; Griffin Pierce-Taylor, in the Canadian television series Degrassi: The Next Generation; Griffin Turner, a character in Ninjago; Griffin Moss, one of the main characters of The Griffin and Sabine Saga
The Gryphon appears to be somewhat overbearing and dismissive of the obsessions and dismays of other characters, such as the Mock Turtle's sorrow and the Queen of Hearts' executions, neither of which (according to the Gryphon) have any basis in fact.
Dermot Magennis as Dave, Mr. Griffin and Prairie Dog; Amy Grant (US), Tara Flynn (UK) as Hazel; Paul Tylak as Obesey and Chimpanzee cabin service attendant; Chris Evans as Stayput; Aileen Mythen as Mrs. Griffin, Flamingo, Mrs. Gorilla and Margaret; Martin Sheen (US), Alan Stanford (UK) as Lion; Patrick FitzSymones as Tanglefoot, Mr. Gorilla and ...
On April 6, 2010, President Reveley announced that the college has selected the Griffin as its new mascot. [7] President Reveley stated that the new mascot symbolizes the links between the college's historic ties to both Great Britain, whose monarchy has used the symbol of the lion in the past, and the United States, which uses the eagle as the national symbol.