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  2. Mythic humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Tengu – Legendary creatures with human and bird features in Japanese folklore. Tennin – Spiritual beings found in Japanese Buddhism that are similar to western angels, nymphs or fairies. Tikbalang –(Filipino) Tall, bony creatures with the features of a horse. Tiyanak – Vampiric creature in Philippine mythology that imitates the form of ...

  3. Homunculus - Wikipedia

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    The homunculus is commonly used today in scientific disciplines such as psychology as a teaching or memory tool to describe the distorted scale model of a human drawn or sculpted to reflect the relative space human body parts occupy on the somatosensory cortex (the sensory homunculus) and the motor cortex (the motor homunculus).

  4. List of Greek mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of legendary creatures (H) - Wikipedia

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    Homunculus – small animated construct; Hō-ō – rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid; Hoopoe (multiple cultures) – near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents

  6. Homunculus (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Homunculus Nebula, a part of the Eta Carinae Nebula; Cortical homunculus, also known as the Penfield homunculus, a physical representation of the primary motor cortex of the rest of the body; Fetiform teratoma, a rare cyst having a fetal structure; The homunculus argument is a fallacy arising most commonly in the theory of vision

  7. Metamorphoses in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    The Sisters of Phaethon are Transformed into Poplars by Santi di Tito, 16th century.. In ancient Greece, the surviving Greek mythology features a wide collection of myths where the subjects are physically transformed, usually through either divine intervention or sorcery and spells. [1]

  8. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    Tikbalang – creature with the body of a man and the head and hooves of a horse, lurks in the mountains and forests (Philippines) Uchchaihshravas – seven-headed all white flying horse (Hindu) Unicorn – horse-like creature with a single horn, often symbolizing purity (Worldwide) Winged unicorn

  9. Scorpion man - Wikipedia

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    Scorpion-women appear in the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, during Gilgamesh's encounter with the scorpion-men (Tablet IX 37-135).The scorpion-man tells his "female" (presumably a scorpion-woman, here seen for the first time), that Gilgamesh carries the flesh of the gods in his body.