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The lower part of the body is similar to a bird, and should enable her to fly between the human and the mystical worlds. The most popular portrayal of kinnaree in Thai art probably the golden figures of kinnaree adorned the Wat Phra Kaew in Bangkok, which describe a half-maiden, half-goose figure.
Kinnara – Half-human, half-bird in later Indian mythology. Kurma – Upper-half human, lower-half tortoise. Ichthyocentaurs – Creatures that have the torsos of a man or woman, the front legs of a horse, and the tails of a fish. Scorpion man – Half-man half-scorpion. Serpopard – A creature that is part-snake and part-African leopard.
Onocentaur – part human, part donkey (Greek) Pegasus – white winged stallion (Greek) Pooka – spirits, or fairies who lived near ancient stones, good or bad (Ireland) Sleipnir – Odin's eight-legged horse, which he rode to Hel (location) (Norse) Simurgh – like the Hippogriff with the head of a human (Persian)
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 – Tall, bony creatures with the features of a horse. Tiyanak – Vampiric creature in Philippine mythology that imitates the form of a child.
The angel (human with birds' wings, see winged genie) the mermaid (part human part fish, see Enki, Atargatis, and Apkallu) and the shedu all trace their origins to Assyro-Babylonian art. In Mesopotamian mythology the urmahlullu, or lion-man, served as a guardian spirit, especially of bathrooms. [4] [5]
It is a bird that comes from Sukhavati of Amitābha. It is said that the upper part of the body is a human, and the lower part is a bird. It is also said to have a beautiful and strange voice before coming out of its shell. It has several other names and is considered a symbol of the Buddha's teachings.
Manananggal: derived from the word, tanggal, which means "to separate" because of their ability to separate from their lower body part [65] Manaul: a sacred bird; Minokawa – a gigantic dragon-like bird. It has a beak and claws of steel. His eyes are mirrors, and each feather is a sharp sword.
Ba, the part of a human's soul that roughly represents its personality, depicted as a bird with a human head. [2] Calais and Zetes, the sons of the North Wind Boreas. [3] Chareng, also called Uchek Langmeidong, a mythical creature from Meitei mythology that is part-human and part-hornbill, having an avian body and a human head.