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The story goes that one day all the creatures of the sea must offer themselves to the monster Leviathan. It is reported that a sailor encountered a sea goat while far at sea. On its horns was carved the sentence, translated as "I am a little sea-animal, yet I traversed three hundred parasangs to offer myself as food to the leviathan." [9] [10]
According to Hyginus, Aegipan was the son of Zeus (some sources say his son Apollo) and Aega (also named Boetis or Aix), [1] and was transferred to the stars. [2] Others again make Aegipan the father of Pan, and state that he as well as his son were represented as half goat and half fish, similar to a satyr. [3]
Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937). The hippocampus, or hippocamp or hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1]), sometimes called a "sea-horse" [2] in English, [citation needed] is a mythological creature mentioned in Etruscan, Greek, Phoenician, [3 ...
A myth reported as "Egyptian" in Hyginus's Poetic Astronomy [39] (which would seem [to whom?] to be invented to justify a connection of Pan with Capricorn) [citation needed] says that when Aegipan—that is Pan in his goat-god aspect [40] —was attacked by the monster Typhon, he dived into the river Nile; the parts above the water remained a ...
Its name is Latin for "horned goat" or "goat horn" or "having horns like a goat's", and it is commonly represented in the form of a sea goat: a mythical creature that is half goat, half fish. Capricornus is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Claudius Ptolemy.
Sea goat – A creature that is half-goat half-fish. Sea-griffin – A griffin variant with the hindquarters of a fish. Sea-lion – A creature with the head and upper body of a lion and the tail of a fish. Siren – Half-bird, half-woman creature of Greek mythology, who lured sailors to their deaths with their singing voices.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Members of the goat-antelope subfamily from myth and legend. See also ... (mythology) Amalthea (mythology) Aries (astrology) ...
In Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia (Ancient Greek: Ἀμάλθεια) is the figure most commonly described as the nurse of Zeus during his infancy. She is described either as a nymph who raises the child on the milk of a goat, or, in some accounts from the Hellenistic period onwards, as the goat itself.