Thunderbird 734/3/2023 In another version, she mated with her brother Orthrus and gave birth to the Sphinx and the Nemean lion. The chimera was the daughter of Typhon and Echidna. No one could escape the beast nor defeat it in combat1. It is often similarly depicted in art as having an agile, strong body of a lion with a tail that ends in a serpent's head. In Theogony Hesiod describes chimera as: "a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion in her hinderpart, a dragon and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire". In Greek mythology, the chimera was a monstrous fire-breathing female creature, composed of the parts of different animals: the body of a lioness, the tail ending in a snake's head, the head of a goat arising on her back at the center of her spine. Motto: A thing is not strange in itself it depends on me to make it strange. Keywords: chimera hybrid Nue Baku Raiju yokai Japanese folklore. Their veneration as well as rejection form the very the image of the numinous stark dualism: mysterium tremendum et fascinans ("fearful and fascinating mystery") - as coined by Rudolf Otto. The above mentioned examples indicate that monsters are not mere just metaphors of beastliness. Raiju appeared whenever a thunder struck, scratching the ground with animal like claws. "the thunder animal") was a legendary creature whose body looked like a cat, a raccoon dog, monkey or weasel. In China it was believed that sleeping on a Baku pelt could protect a person from pestilence and its image was a powerful talisman against the evil. Baku is a spirit who devours dreams and is sometimes depicted as a supernatural being with an elephant's trunk, rhinoceros eyes, an ox tail, and tiger paws. It was killed by Minamoto no Yorimasa as the monster was draining the emperor out of energy, causing him a terrible illness. Nue is a legendary creature with the head of a monkey, the body of a raccoon dog, the legs of a tiger, and a snake like tail. In addition, the Japanese folklore has also produced examples of such an imaginative hybridization, such as Nue, Baku, Raiju. Later, the name has come to be applied to any fantastic or horrible creation of the imagination, and also to a hybrid plant of mixed characteristics. Abstract: In Greek mythology, the chimera was a monstrous creature, composed of the parts of multiple animals.
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