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Mathura Herakles The Mathura Herakles is a famous statue found in the city of Mathura, India, thought to represent the Greek hero Herakles fighting the Nemean lion.
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Nemean lion The Nemean lion ( ; Greek: Νεμέος λέων "Neméos léōn"; Latin: "Leo Nemeaeus" ) was a vicious monster in Greek mythology that lived at Nemea. It was eventually killed by Heracles. It could not be killed with mortals' weapons because its golden fur was impervious to attack. Its claws were sharper than mortals' swords and could cut through any armor.
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Kalayavana Kālayāvana (Sanskrit: कालयावन, lit. "black Greek/Yona") was a king who invaded Mathura with an army of thirty million yavanas against Krishna.
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Rudra Rudra ( ; Sanskrit: रुद्र ) is a Rigvedic deity, associated with wind or storm and the hunt. The name has been translated as "the roarer". In the Rigveda, Rudra has been praised as the "mightiest of the mighty". Rudra is the personification of 'terror'. Depending up on the poetic situation, Rudra can be meant as the most severe roarer/howler
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Zeus Zeus ( ; Greek: Ζεύς "Zeús" ] ) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Indra, Jupiter, Perun, Thor, and Odin.
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Medusa In Greek mythology Medusa ( , ; Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress") was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazers upon her hideous face would turn to stone. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, though the author Hyginus makes her the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto. According to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on an island named Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BCE novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth, as part of their religion.
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Mohini Mohini (Sanskrit: मोहिनी, "Mohinī ") is the only female avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. She is portrayed as an enchantress, who maddens lovers, sometimes leading them to their doom. Mohini is introduced into the Hindu mythology in the narrative epic of the "Mahabharata". Here, she appears as a form of Vishnu, acquires the pot of Amrita (an elixir of immortality) from thieving asuras (demons), and gives it back to the devas (gods), helping them retain their immortality.
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Mayasura In Hindu mythology, Maya (Sanskrit: मय ), or Mayāsura (मयासुर ) was a great ancient king of the asura, daitya and rākṣasa races.
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Gonggong Gonggong ( or 龔工), also known as Kanghui, is a Chinese water god or sea monster who is often depicted in Chinese mythology, folktales, and religious stories as having red hair and the tail of a serpent (or dragon). He is often seen as destructive and is blamed for various cosmic catastrophes. In all accounts, Gonggong ends up being killed or sent into exile, usually after losing a struggle with another major deity.
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Hafgufa Hafgufa (Icelandic, "haf" "sea" + "gufa" "steam") is the name of a massive sea monster reported in the "Örvar-Odds" saga to have existed in the Greenland Sea which was said to disguise itself as an island or pair of rocks rising from the sea.
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Hercules (DC Comics) Hercules (also known as Heracles and Herakles) is a fictional Olympian god in the DC Universe based on the Greek demigod and hero of the same name.
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Shakuni Shakuni (Sanskrit: शकुनि , lit. "bird") also known as Saubala (Sanskrit: सौबल, lit. "son of Subala"), Gandhararaja (Sanskrit: गान्धारराज, (lit. king of Gandhara) and Subalraja(Sanskrit): सुबलराज,lit. "King of the Kingdom of Subala" was the prince of Gandhara Kingdom in present-day Gandhara, later to become the King after his father's death and one of the main villains in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He was the brother of Gandhari and hence Duryodhana's maternal uncle. Portrayed as an extremely intelligent but devious man, Shakuni is often credited as the mastermind behind the Kurukshetra war. Shakuni had a son named Uluka.
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Singa (mythology) Singa is an apotropaic figure from the mythology of the Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia. The singa represents a benevolent and protective power. The singa is described as "part human, part water buffalo, and part crocodile or lizard". It is variedly represented, but always has an elongated face, with big bulging eyes, a well-defined nose, and long spiralling beard. It is often represented only with its head, but sometimes it may also be represented full body. Other figures - such as other protective deity or ancestral figures - may also be represented standing or sitting on top of the head of the singa.
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Halahala Halāhala (Sanskrit हलाहल) or kālakūṭa (Sanskrit कालकूटं, literally: 'black mass' or 'time puzzle' ) is the name of a poison (as per Hindu mythology) created from the sea when Devas (Gods) and Asuras (Demons) churned it (see Samudra manthan) in order to obtain Amrita, the nectar of immortality.
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Gorgolla Gorgolla, or Gargolla the Living Gargoyle is a fictional monster character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Visha Kanya The Visha Kanya (Sanskrit विष कन्या ; English: Poison girl ) were young women reportedly used as assassins, often against powerful enemies, during the times of the Ancient India. Their blood and bodily fluids were purportedly poisonous to other humans, as was mentioned in the ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, "Arthashastra", written by Chanakya, an adviser and a prime minister to the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupta (c. 340–293 BCE).
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Bolla The Bolla (also known as Bullar in South Albania), is a type of demonic-serpent like Dragon from Albanian folklore with a long, coiled, serpentine body, four legs, small wings, and silver, faceted eyes. This dragon sleeps throughout the whole year, only to wake on Saint George's Day, where it peers into the world until it sees a human. It devours the person, then closes its eyes and sleeps again. This is explained in the legend of Saint George. When he fought and vanquished the dragon, Saint George cursed the beast so that it be forever blind and only open its eyes on his day only. The Bolla can change into a Kulshedra should it live many years without being seen by a human. It is etymologically related to Greek Φάλη, Φάλαινα 'monster, whale,' (although the relationship is not certain) and comes from the Latin chersydrusus which means something like ‘the snake that lives in the water and on the earth’.
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Bhairava Bhairava (Sanskrit: भैरव, lit. "frightful") is a Hindu deity, a fierce manifestation of Shiva associated with annihilation. Bhairava originated in Hindu legends and is sacred to Hindus, Buddhists and Jains alike. He is worshiped throughout India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
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Heracles of Macedon Heracles of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς ; c. 327 – 309 BC) was a reputed illegitimate son of Alexander the Great of Macedon by Barsine, daughter of Satrap Artabazus of Phrygia. Heracles was named after the Greek mythological hero of the same name, from whom the Argeads claimed descent.
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Zilla (TriStar Godzilla) Zilla (ジラ , Jira ) is a film monster that first appeared as the title character in TriStar Pictures' 1998 film "Godzilla". It was initially created as a reimagining of Godzilla; however after 2004, Toho (the Godzilla IP owners) began trademarking future incarnations of TriStar's Godzilla as "Zilla", with only the incarnations from the 1998 film and "" retaining the Godzilla copyright and trademark.
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Anzû (mythology) Anzû, before misread as Zû (Sumerian: "AN.ZUD2, AN.ZUD, AN.IM.DUGUD.MUŠEN, AN.IM.MI.MUŠEN"; cuneiform: "AN.IM.MI-mušen"), also known as Imdugud, is a lesser divinity or monster in several Mesopotamian religions. He was conceived by the pure waters of the Apsu and the wide Earth, or as son of Siris. Anzû was depicted as a massive bird who can breathe fire and water, although Anzû is alternately depicted as a lion-headed eagle.
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Mount Chimaera Mount Chimaera was the name of a place in ancient Lycia, notable for constantly burning fires. It is thought to be the area called Yanartaş in Turkey, where methane and other gases emerge from the rock and burn. Some ancient sources considered it to be the origin of the myth of the monster called the Chimera, because of similarities described below.