Serpent of Koshi
The Serpent of Koshi is a gigantic Japanese serpent with eight heads and eight tails. Each head has two red eyes; the size of the beast was large enough to cover eight hills and valleys. It was so large that trees and other vegetation grew upon its back. The serpent liked to eat young maidens one every year until the eighth year where a the serpent was slain by a knight that lured the serpent to drink rice wine which sent the beast to sleep then the knight cut off the serpents eight heads.
Cerberus
Cerberus is the watch-dog of hell. It is a fearful en dangerous creature. This Dog with three Heads denotes the past, the present, and the Time to come; which receive, and, as it were, devour all things
Baldanders
This Devil-like creature is very rare. It is said there are thousands, or only one... This Devil is storing in knowledge, to trick foe's. Baldanders is a successive monster, a monster in time.
Burak
Burak is the winged horse known from the Islametic legend, in which the Prophet Mohammed was his rider. Burak is a symbol of love and protection, but also offers speed and strength.
The Valkyries
Valkyrie means, in early Germanic languages, the "chooser of the slain." We do not know how the people of Germany and of
Austria imagined them; in Norse mythology they are lovely maidens who bear weapons. Their usual number was three, though in the Eddas the names of more than a dozen are gmen.
Youwarkee
Half woman and half bird, or-as Browning was to write of his dead wife, Elizabeth Barrett-half angel and half bird, she can open her arms and make wings of them, and a silky down covers her body. She lives on an island lost in Antarctic seas.
The Nagas
Nagas belong to the mythology of India. They are serpents but often take the form of a man.
Kraken
The Kraken is a Scandinavian version of the zaratan and of the sea dragon, or sea snake, of the Arabs. The Kraken is in the habit of turning the sea murky with a discharge of liquid.
Laatst bewerkt: 28 nov 2005