These were based upon rock art describing a war party of five canoes crossing Lake Superior that encountered animals resembling giant turtles, snakes, and moose. But some (upper right) clearly look dinosaurian. Sioux Indians further west, when interviewed by ethnologists, described Unktehi as an...
In the great epicMahabharata, the depiction of dragons (nagas) tends toward the negative, and they are portrayed as the deserving victims of the snake sacrifice and of predation by the eagle-kingGaruda. The epic calls them "persecutors of all creatures", and tells us "the snakes were of v...
There are some snakes down there… non-elite… that we tried to clear, but somebody thought about that dodge and they respawn quickly. Still, it seemed doable. Ula took one switch, Liftkit the other, and off we went. And it seemed to work. When Anhuur is invulnerable he also doesn’...
Gunung Palung National Park's abundance of unique creatures—from orangutans to flying foxes to clouded leopards—offers a glimpse into Borneo's past.
The Ogdoad was a group of eight ancient Egyptian goddesses & gods who represented the primordial forces of chaos and creation. They were worshipped in the city of Hermopolis, where they were depicted as four pairs of male and female frogs and snakes. The Ogdoad consisted of Nun and Naunet ...
For their land produced great numbers of these snakes and still more came down on them out of the desolate regions of the north, until at last the Neurians were so afflicted that they left their own land and lived among the Budinians. It may be that these Neurian people are en...
Broad face with large eyes (irises depicted) and arching brows, mouth slightly open. Wings at the top of head, two facing knotted snakes below, two others at sides. Thick white slip, pink pigment on lips, blue pigment on eyes outlined with pink. Pink line at junction with neck. Intact....
full of poisonous snakes; But it was no problem because they ate them roasted. After some time they asked the lord of the neighboring village (the Culhuas) to give them his daughter to marry her off to their god. The girl was offered in sacrifice and when her father knew, they had to...
Megachirella was discovered in the Dont Formation of the area of Braies, in South Tyrol, and described in 2003. It was classified as a member of Lepidosauromorpha, the clade of reptiles that includes lizards, snakes, the tuatara and their closest extinct relatives, at In particular, the fo...
the object having been that the package should clearly indicate the kind of animal enclosed. Often these animal mummies were placed in theriomorphic coffins. There are mummies of jackals, cats, ibises, snakes, lizards, gazelles, hawks, bulls, sheep, baboons, crocodiles--in fact, almost every ...