Flying paper monsters mythology
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Interestingly, some of the Hindu and Japanese images of Garuda and Karura are almost identical. Some depictions of Karura show a creature that’s part human and part bird, often having numerous arms, wings, and feathers. He’s also found in Japanese mythology, where he’s known as Karura. Even though he wasn’t created as a god, he’s often worshiped as such. In Hindu mythology, Garuda is a bird belonging to Lord Vishnu, large enough for him to ride and so brilliantly colored that he’s often mistaken for the god of fire. According to eyewitnesses, the boobrie has a long white neck, wide wingspan, long beak, short legs, massive partially-webbed feet, and a cry that sounds like a bull. There are stories of hunters who have sworn they have seen a water-horse-another mythical creature of Scottish folklore-but upon closer inspection of the tracks left behind, they see the distinctive, antler-shaped tracks unique to the boobrie. The boobrie also has the ability to shape-shift into a horse and walk on water in this form, and it can also turn into an insect to suck the blood from horses. It prefers cattle and sheep but will also eat otters if needed. Well-known as a mimic, the boobrie will often imitate the cries of an injured baby animal, grabbing and drowning any adult animal curious enough to come close and investigate.
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Rather than using its wings to fly, it more commonly uses them to swim through the lakes and wells where it hunts. The boobrie is a shape-shifting bird from the mythology and folklore of the Scottish Highlands. Anzu also shows up in much later folklore in Israel, where sacrifices are offered to appease him. Anzu and Enlil’s epic has been dated to about 1200 BC. Original stories about Anzu are among the oldest known of the “combat myths,” in which a hero is tasked to go off and take on a formidable foe. Much later, Assyrian kings were credited with being the ones that had slain the giant bird, allowing for great stories of epic battles to be written about the area’s mortal rulers. Enlil, the son of the god Anzu stole the tablets from, is sent into the primordial, partially-created world to stop him and return power to the gods, unleashing floodwaters along with the winds and storms that shape the world. Anzu’s flight would kick up enormous sand and dust storms, his scream would make the whole world shake, and even the gods viewed him as a nearly invincible threat.Īccording to the legend, the giant bird stole the Tablet of Destinies, which gave him the powers of the gods and power over the mortal world. It was so massive that the only tree big enough to hold its nest was the tree that straddled the seven heads of the river of the sun god, Utu. The ashes were then placed on an altar to the sun god.Īnzu is an ancient Sumerian bird with the body of an eagle and the head of a lion. Later stories share even more aspects of the phoenix-Herodotus tells the story of the Benu bird living for 500 years before setting itself on fire and being reborn from the ashes.
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The original Benu bird that created the world was born from flame at the top of a Persea tree that stood on the top of an obelisk. His capability to renew himself meant he was also associated with Osiris, the dead, and the ideas of resurrection.
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The Benu bird was said to renew himself every day, rising with the sun and renewing himself in the sun’s rays. It was closely associated with the Egyptian sun god, so much so that the image of the Benu bird came to refer to the sun god himself, often depicted wearing a crown. Traditionally, the Benu bird closely resembles a heron but has flame-colored feathers and occasionally a human head. This cry was said to decide what would be in this world and what wouldn’t be. In Egyptian creation mythology, the Benu bird flew over the surface of chaos, landed, and let out a scream that broke the original primordial silence. The Benu Bird was an Egyptian version of the more well-known phoenix. Everyone’s familiar with some mythological birds like the phoenix, but the world’s mythology can get way stranger than that. Mankind has long been fascinated with birds because of their mysteriousness, seasonal disappearances, ability to fly, and freedom to go where we simply couldn’t for the longest time.
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