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Nekheny – A predynastic Falcon god [86] Nemty – Falcon god, worshiped in Middle Egypt, [120] who appears in myth as a ferryman for greater gods [121] Pataikos – A dwarf protector god [86] Panebtawy – A child god, son of Heru-ur [6] Petbe – God of revenge [22] Peteese – Brother of Pihor who drowned in the Nile, later deified [86]
Gamayun from Russian mythology, a large bird with a woman's head; The Garuda, an eagle-man mount of Vishnu in Hindu mythology who is depicted as a class of bird-like beings in Buddhist mythology. [7] [8] [9] Horus with the head of a falcon. Geryon, a giant defeated by Hercules who, in one account, was described as having wings.
In Egyptian art, Montu was depicted as a falcon-headed or bull-headed man, with his head surmounted by the solar disk (because of his conceptual link with Ra [2]) with either a double or singular uraeus, [8] [9] and two feathers. The falcon was a symbol of the sky and the bull was a symbol of strength and war.
Luna, for example, is a name from Roman mythology and is the number 10 ranked name for baby girls. Others, like Eleuthia, have never cracked the top 1,000 list of boys ’ or girl s’ names in ...
He was most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner falcon or peregrine falcon, or as a man with a falcon head. [ 9 ] The earliest recorded form of Horus is the tutelary deity of Nekhen in Upper Egypt , who is the first known national god, specifically related to the ruling pharaoh who in time came to be regarded as a manifestation of ...
Lives beneath the Gulf of Mexico. Name clearly jumped from Mayan storm god (Huracan), to Taino name for the weather phenomenon (Juracan), to this creature around the Texas-Louisiana coast. Hræsvelgr – jötunn who takes the form of an eagle (Norse mythology) Poukai – monstrous predatory bird, likely based on an extinct species
Inmyeonjo – A human face with bird body creature in ancient Korean mythology. Karura – A divine creature of Japanese Hindu-Buddhist mythology with the head of a bird and the torso of a human. Kuk – Kuk's male form has a frog head while his female form has a snake head. Meretseger – The cobra-headed Egyptian Goddess.