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Reptilian Humanoids






Reptilian humanoids in world mythology include:

Male

Boreas (Aquilon to the Romans): the Greek god of the cold north wind, described by Pausanias as a winged man with serpents instead of legs.


Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake.


Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids.


Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology


Glycon: a snake god who had the head of a man.


Ningizzida, Lord of the Tree of Life, mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh and linked to the water serpent constellation Hydra.

Shenlong: a Chinese dragon thunder god, depicted with a human head and a dragon's body.



Tlaloc: Aztec god depicted as a man with snake fangs


Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.

Zahhak, a figure from Zoroastrian mythology who, in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, grows a serpent on either shoulder

Female

Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake.


Enchanted Moura from Portuguese and Galician folklore appears as a snake with long blonde hair.



The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair.



The Lamia: a child-devouring female demon from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half serpent.



Nüwa: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology



Wadjet pre-dynastic snake goddess of Lower Egypt - sometimes depicted as half snake, half woman



The White Snake: a figure from Chinese folklore.

Source : Wikipedia

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