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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.
The word hippogriff, also spelled hippogryph, [2] is derived from the Ancient Greek: ἵππος híppos, meaning "horse", and the Italian grifo meaning "griffin" (from Latin: gryp or grypus from Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps), which denotes another mythical creature, with the head of an eagle and body of a lion, that is purported to be the father of the hippogriff.
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 origins of the Griffins are not clear. Most theories derive them from either local West Slavic nobility or a cadet branch of the Polish house of Piasts. [1] [2] Medieval Polish chronicler Jan Długosz connected them with Polish noble family of Świebodzice from the south province of Poland named the Lesser Poland, who also used a griffin as their coat-of-arms and who in turn might also ...
As the goddess of proportion and the avenger of crime, she is often depicted wielding a measuring rod (tally stick), a bridle, scales, a sword, and a scourge, and she rides in a chariot drawn by griffins. The poet Mesomedes wrote a hymn to Nemesis in the early second century AD, where he addressed her:
Griffin talked about leaning on mentors in the coaching profession, but wouldn’t name them. If Rivers was indeed one of them, it makes a tricky situation even trickier when considering how much ...
Various theological and philosophical aspects have been expanded and developed by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000), John B. Cobb, Eugene H. Peters, and David Ray Griffin. [5] A characteristic of process theology each of these thinkers shared was a rejection of metaphysics that privilege " being " over " becoming ", particularly those of ...