Goat Hybrids
What is the Roman counterpart for the Greek creation, the 'satyr'?
The faun
In Egyptian mythology, what is the "Ba"?
The "Ba" was your personality, whatever made each person unique that was not physical - your humor, your warmth, your charm, yourself. The Ba is pictured in hieroglyphics as a bird with a human head. The Egyptians thought birds were able to fly between worlds, that of the living and the afterlife.
What does a selkie do to change shape?
They undergo a full body transformation upon coming to shore: they do not merely transform seal tails into human legs, but rather completely shapeshift from the sea animals into a human. This is accomplished by shedding their seal-skin when they come to land.
What are Nure-Onna commonly seen holding?
A baby that isn’t a baby; replaced with rocks or a boulder that immobilizes the holder.
What is a banshee?
A banshee is said to be a fairy in Irish legend and her scream is believed to be an omen of death. The scream is usually seen as a warning that there will be an imminent death in the family.
Krampus come from what mythology?
Norse / Germanic
What makes the Greek sphinx different from the Egyptian sphinx?
The Greek sphinx had wings and spoke in riddles and the Egyptian sphinx had no wings and no riddles. Unlike the Greek sphinx, which was a woman, the Egyptian sphinx is typically shown as a man (an androsphinx). In addition, the Egyptian sphinx was viewed as benevolent, but the Greek sphinx was seen as violent and killed people who got her riddles wrong.
What is the difference between the ancient Greek "siren" and the Sirena in Philippine mythology?
The Greek sirens, who appeared for the first time in Homer’s description in book 12 of the Odyssey, were not half-fish maidens who lived in the sea. They were half-bird – half-woman creatures who lived on an island in a flowery meadow.
The Sirena is a sea creature from Filipino culture, often portrayed as mermaid-like creatures who live under the sea with the head and torso of a human female and the tail of a fish.
What is the name of Typhon's wife and the Mother of all Monsters?
Echidna
Brynhildr is a chooser of the slain in which mythology? What is she?
Norse mythology; she is a Valkyrie
Who is the female counterpart of the Roman goat-hybrid god, Faunus?
Fauna, the Roman Goddess of prophecy and fruitfulness, fertility, and Spring. It is said that she speaks of future events to women in woodlands in poetic verses.
When is the Korean bird-hybrid, Inmyeonjo, supposed to appear?
When there’s peace on earth, connecting the heavens and the earth for a thousand years — which explains why the 2018 Winter Olympics would consider it a symbol of international union.
The Egyptians mummified both infant and mature crocodiles and even interred crocodile eggs with the deceased in order to enlist the protection of what Egyptian god in the afterlife?
Sobek, half crocodile and half man, a "god of the Nile" and “Lord of the Waters”
What material does Hatuibwari use to create the first human?
Red clay and his fire breath
What do the Northern and Middle English word "seely", and "unseely" mean?
Seely: meaning "happy", "lucky" or "blessed"
Unseely: "unhappy", "misfortunate" or "unholy"
What creature is an ambivalent or undecided type of ghost that appears in Scottish/Celtic legend as both an evil and kind goat hybrid?
The Glaistig
What Russian folktale is linked in concept to the Russian ballet, "Swan Lake", and how are they connected?
The Alkonost;
The ballerina’s dual role of Odette/Odile, or White Swan/Black Swan directly relates back to the Alkonost and Sirin. As bother were created in Russia, and both are opposite sides (light/dark, happiness/sadness)
What mythological creature is represented in both the 2003 rendition of "Pan", and the 2011 film "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides"?
What makes this representation different from other (Disney) films?
The Sirena.
Mermaids are not "sweet". As Peter tells Wendy, "They will sweetly drown you if you get too close." These merfolk are much more dangerous and evil than the mermaids we see in "The Little Mermaid".
What is another title that Zhuyin in known by in Chinese mythology?
The Candle Dragon
What song (written by Richard Wagner from his opera Die Walküre) is used as an instrumental in popular culture; often associated with Brynhildr, and her stereotypical opera costume?
"Ride of the Valkyries"
Who is Marsyas, and what is his story?
Marsyas is a satyr from Greek mythology.
After inventing the aulos, the goddess Athena looked in the mirror while she was playing it. She saw how blowing into it puffed up her cheeks and made her look silly, so she threw the aulos away and cursed it so that whoever picked it up would meet an awful death. The aulos was picked up by the satyr Marsyas, who challenged Apollo to a musical contest. They both agreed beforehand that whoever won would be allowed to do whatever he wanted to the loser. Marsyas played the aulos and Apollo played the lyre. Apollo turned his lyre upside-down and played it. He asked Marsyas to do the same with his instrument. Since he could not, Apollo was deemed to victor. Apollo hung Marsyas from a pine tree and flayed him alive to punish him for his hubris in daring to challenge one of the gods
Aside from the "Ba", the personality, what were the other pieces of the Egyptian soul?
The Ka (vital essence/soul), the Ren (name), the Ib (heart) and the Shut (shadow).
Who is Matsya in Hindu mythology? How did he save humanity?
Matsya is one of the 10 avatars or incarnations of the Hindu deity Vishnu.
He told the king Manu to build an ark and to take “all medicinal herbs, all the varieties of seeds, and accompanied by the seven saints” along with the serpent Vasuki and other animals on it when the flood came. Then he tied himself to Manu’s ark using Vasuki as a rope and protected them from the storm and the floods. When the storms ended and the water subsided, Matsya Vishnu left Manu and the others at the Himalayas, where they could begin human civilization again.
What Japanese monster is said to appear from the sea together with the Nure-Onna?
Ushi-oni
Why do the Navajo consider it taboo for its members to wear the pelt of any predatory animal?
Skinwalkers wore the skins of the animals they transform into and sometimes they also wore animal skulls or antlers atop their heads, which brought them more power. Skinwalkers use Navajo witchcraft that is known as the “Witchery Way,” which uses human corpses in various ways such as tools from the bones, and concoctions that are used to curse, harm, or kill intended. This makes them outcasts and "cursed" by the Navajo nation.