Hemikynoi [Half-Dogs], a "proud" race of Anubis-like dog-headed people In mediaeval Europe it was supposed that St Christopher had been one of them. "mare-milking" Skythoi, closely associated with the Kimmerioi, even said to be the same as them. (In another version they are the descendants of Skythes son of Herakles [Hercules].)

2021年2月15日 · In Greco-Roman mythology the "gods" are not a special category in the same sense that the modern Western taxonomical terms "species" and "race" would entail. Being a θεός (theós), "god," is more a matter of status or class rather than "tribe."

I mete and dole unequal laws unto a savage race, that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. expressing, his sense of disconnection, being last among his generation, friends all dead; his age, via reference to his once legendarily desired wife; his idle (purposeless) existence; and the mundane world he is now hopelessly entangled in.

There's a race of dog-headed people known as Cynocephaly (or Kynokephali) which literally means dog-head. Akephaloi is also used to describe the Blemmey who has no head. It would probably make sense to call horse-headed people Hippocephali or Ippokephaloi or something like that. "Reverse-Centaur" would be very incorrect.

2022年11月11日 · There doesn't seem to be a clearly defined race of stone-giants in the Old Norse corpus. In fact, Snorri Sturluson, who in his Skáldskaparmál gives the most detailed account of Hrungnir's duel with Thor, always refers to the giant using the term jǫtunn, which is usually translated as 'giant'. He does describe some of his body parts as being ...

2019年5月26日 · The natural supposition would be that the 'divine' words are archaic survivals, perhaps from an older race. It is sometimes said that the divine name has usually a clearer meaning than the human, and that the Greeks therefore regarded their own tongue as divine, and others as the languages of mere men.

2019年7月11日 · The influence from one myth that effect other race myth. The development of myth that came from other culture as well as adaptation of myth. Psychology in myth. So i started with Greek myth of Edith Hamilton , some of Joseph Campbell's stuffs, James Frazer compacted golden bough, a little bit of Mircea Eliade, a little bit of Lévi-Strauss.

All the three peoples in question are just as human as most others who inhabit the cosmos of Greek myth, granted that in this mythology all human beings are somewhat "magical" and

2015年5月4日 · At the end of this prophercy, it stated that two surviving humans will repopulate the Earth while the remaing gods will meet with each other and do something, like helping with the repopulation of the human race or something like that. So what exactly do the remaining gods and two humans do after Ragnarök?

According to a poem by MacLeigh which can be found and discussed in The Annuals of the Four Masters. They fled to Connaught and having seized power from the Milesians in the 1st century ruled there until the 3rd century, when Aodh son of Garadh King of Connaught and last king of the Fir Bolg was defeated by Cormac king of Ireland.