Mythological Creatures

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I saw a video on my youtube feed about Germanic folklore where they mentioned a Chinese zombie-like creature named Jingshi (?) which had a parchment with symbols on stuck in front of their face, I searched Youtube for it and found the playlist.
 
Ottoman miniatures

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Og the Giant

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Dragons

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Simrugh Phoenix

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Waqwaq tree

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Mermen, Harpies and other hybrids

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Angles & Daemons 

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The Antichrist & his Downfall

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Gog & Magog

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Beast of the Earth

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Mythical cosmology
and constellations...

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Kelpie?, Nessie?... is that you?!!

:arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames_whale

:arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictish_Beast

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:mrgreen: On vacation in Scotland with the family...
we just came back from a long bus trip to Loch Ness!

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:grin: The Triple Humps of Nessie - The oldest trick in the book!
A hoax based on the currents produced by the boat's propeller...

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:party: another fun set of easy hoaxes...
Nessie silhouettes on either side of the boat's windows! 

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Almas / Yeren / Yeti
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& other Abominable Snowmen  :arrow: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4269

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Himalayan serow (Capricornis thar) - the main source of Yeti scalps

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Almas  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almas_(cryptozoology)

Chuchunya  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuchunya

Barmanou  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuchunya

Hibagon  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibagon

Yeren  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeren

Yeti  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti

The Pangboche Hand  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangboche_Hand

Antonis said:
Nice!  :smile:
I hoped you had a good time!
Sure did  :wink: Thanks!
 
Serpopard

"Serpopard" is a modern term for a mythical animal known from Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian art. The word "serpopard" is a portmanteau of "serpent" and "leopard", derived from the interpretation that the creature represents a combination of the two animals, featuring the body of a leopard, and a long neck and head representing the serpent. However, they have also been interpreted as "serpent-necked lions". There is no known name for the creature in any ancient texts.

Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpopard

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Soldier Of Thebes said:
Serpopard

"Serpopard" is a modern term for a mythical animal known from Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian art. The word "serpopard" is a portmanteau of "serpent" and "leopard", derived from the interpretation that the creature represents a combination of the two animals, featuring the body of a leopard, and a long neck and head representing the serpent. However, they have also been interpreted as "serpent-necked lions". There is no known name for the creature in any ancient texts.

Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpopard

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I wonder if it was inspired by some locally discovered sauropod fossils...

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Jurassic = Brachiosauridae: Giraffatitan  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffatitan

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Cretaceous = Titanosauria: Paralititan  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralititan

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UPDATE: "Giraffes horse"; horse figures made from clay, Hallstatt, 8th Century BC,
Region of Reuttlingen; shown at the Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

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and the mystery of the Sha
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Setesh, Sutekh, Setekh, Suty...
Lord of the red desert sands,  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(deity)
father of Anubis, the god of generals, protector of foreigners,
King maker, god slayer, and above all the vanquisher of Chaos and darkness

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An earlier deity popular among the Libyans was Ash, who bore a striking resemblance to Set,
and yet was also depicted as a lion, vulture, hawk or even a snake... 
Later, Set would be associated with other foreign gods such as
the Canaanite Ba'al, the Hurrian Teshub and the Greek Typhon

:arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_(deity)

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The "Set animal", or sha, proves a mystery to this day,
some speculated a donkey, pig or canine. Its interesting to note that Seth
being the father of Anubis, still bears less resemblance to either
Jackal or hound portrayals in ancient Egyptian artwork.

:arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_animal

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Seth as a donkey, Leyden Coptic papyrus, Roman era, 4th century

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However it has be suggested that the bushy tail ends, may
resemble that of African Wild dogs instead (Lycaon pictus),
which held great importance in earlier pre-dynastic periods ...

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among the animals associated with Set where swine, donkeys other hoofed mammals.
The elongated snout itself does looks like that of a pig, warthog or wild boar...

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The most common and prevalent theory by far, is that of the aardvark,
that rare creature roaming the distant plains of foreign lands...

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Others however, still  consider the Sha to be a mythical chimera,
or imaginary creature, owing to its bizarre features and gait...

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Seth himself can transform into a variety of other animals,
such as a bull, crocodile or Hippopotamus...

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ironically interesting to note are the Medjed or Oxyrhynchus fish  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medjed_(fish)
which are said to have devoured Osiris's "male member", after being killed by Set,
who then had the cadaver dismembered and scattered to the wind!
They are based on locally caught Elephant-snout fish,
(Mormyrus kannume & Mormyrus caschive)...

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Gathered Ancient Images of Set

:arrow: http://www.joanlansberry.com/setfind/setfind.html

Seth - A misrepresented God from the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon?

:arrow: https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:180305&datastreamId=FULL-TEXT.PDF

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...ironically interesting to note are the Medjed or Oxyrhynchus fish  :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medjed_(fish)
which are said to have devoured Osiris's "male member", after being killed by Set,
who then had the cadaver dismembered and scattered to the wind!
They are based on locally caught Elephant-snout fish,
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...which then of course, continues to the tale of how Isis sets out and gathers all the pieces of Osiris, except his *ahem* "stick", so after thinking a while creates one out of wood (which may be one of the oldest historical references to the brilliant human invention called "dildo") attaches it to the body of Osiris, and then does a certain *ahem* explicit act and 'blows in' life force through Osiris's "wood".

And thus, Osiris comes back alive, and rules the underworld.

Happy endings, I love 'em. 

(ps) did I mention some scholars view the whole thing as a metaphor to how in sexual encounters a good 'oral job' can 'revitalize' the flacid male appendage and restore its 'upstanding' stature? According to those views, the entire act of sex where the male organs comes "alive" and then "dead" and then "alive" again with careful 'attention' from the partner, symbolizes the cycle of life and death, and presumably have been symbolized through Isis's loving and *ahem* "divine blowj**" to bring Osiris back.

Who says history is boring?
 
Gigantopithecus blacki - The Real King Kong!
Though as an Orangutan rather than a Gorilla :arrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus
illustrated here by Zdeněk Burian...

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First discovered in prehistoric fissures and caves, often frequented by
porcupines storing foraged bones and other sources of calcium,
then sold at Chinese apothecaries, where fossilized teeth are
ground up into powder and sold as medicinal "Dragon Bones!"

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