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There are the Tzizimime in the Aztec mythos, known to them only as "The monsters descending from above." While not giants in the traditional humanoid sense, they are basically malevolent stellar deities.
Also there are the Quinametzin
, the giants that existed before man who were punished by the gods for not revering them.
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You should look deeper into the stories:
http://www.mythicalcreatureslist.com/mythical-creature/Antukai - In the Atunkai story we learn that the Amhuluk changes creatures that fall into its lake into different forms.
http://www.mythicalcreatureslist.com/mythical-creature/Amhuluk - this is just a small part of the story of the amhuluk, but we do learn that it evolves all the time and that it's lake corrupts everything that falls into it into another amhuluk (this is false however if we look at the Atunkai story, which is evolved into a different creature, not another Amhuluk)
http://mythsandmagicencyclopedia.wikifoundry.com/page/Atunkai - here is another site that said Amhuluk changes everything that falls into their lake.
I know you people have found the WRONG site that confused the Amhuluk with the Antlered Uktena, the Uktena is a horned serpent, the Amhuluk isn't. The Amhuluk changes other creatures, not drowns them with horns.
https://www.pinterest.com/sincubus1982/mythica-the-enemies/
I've made a pinterest page for my own RPG i'm working on with RPG maker, there are lots of monsters from myth there, all the descriptions however are not like they are in the real myth, but the names are.
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Alrighty, I didn't even find that site. Thanks!
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https://www.pinterest.com/sincubus1982/mythica-the-cut-creatures/
And even more monsters from myth.
If there is one game out there that claims he can't find any suiting enemies, i'll be really surprised.
For some reason, I find a lot of material in Slavic Mythology. I really don't get why I haven't seen any piece of media use a bukavac.
The hippalectryon is basically a chicken-hippogriff in reverse. I've hardly seen any of those - which is saying something, considering that most everything with hooves has been done to death by the MLP fandom.
It'd also be nice to see more werebeasts that aren't wolves, bears, or cats.
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There's actually quite a lot of European mythical creatures that are underused. Tolkien didn't incorporate all of them and so the one's he didn't really touch have remained underused.
The naeck, for instance, is a water wight near waterfalls and rivers that drowns someone every year (unless there's a different sacrifice or offering).
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Africa has werecrocodiles.
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This wikipedia search result contains a number of references to African mythological creatures and monsters.
The Obia (or "Obeah" as its more commonly spelled) has an interesting cultural history. It started out in West Africa as a monster that kidnapped young girls and wore their skin, to a term in the Carribean that described people who practice witchcraft, to a term that functions as the name for a syncretic belief system.
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No dingonek in that list? For shame.
On the Asian side, Japan has the nobusuma, a giant predatory flying squirrel.
Ancient Rome had Cacus, a fire-breathing troll who was killed by Hercules.
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Sep 4th 2018 at 6:14:05 AM
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Well, China has a book named the Classic of the Mountains and the Seas. It has a LOT of mythological beasts. Like a fish with ten bodies and a bird that is literally Half The Man He Used To Be.
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Before the classic Grey Aliens were developed, there were a lot of more interesting ones. Obviously, there are the still semiprevalent reptilians. There are the Pleiadians, who look like European humans but may or may not exist in multiple dimensions. And there are plenty more accounts of very odd looking aliens.
The Ice Queen
The Cait Sith, from Celtic folklore! It's a "fairy cat", a black cat the size of a calf with a single white spot on its chest. Some stories claim she's actually a witch who can take the form of a cat nine times, but the ninth time she'll be mode-locked.
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For reasons unknown, you never hear about the Peryton. I first ran across it in the D&D Monster Manual, then saw it again in a folklore book about mythical beasts. But I've never seen it in written stories, where the protagonist is attacked by one of these creatures and has to defeat it.
It basically looks like a giant eagle with the head of a stag. It casts a human-shaped shadow, perhaps suggesting that it was once human itself. It attacks humans because it needs a fresh human heart to reproduce (at least according to the D&D version.)
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Apparently the reason you never hear about it is because it’s only known from a manuscript that was lost in WWII. In the story, the perytons are souls of residents of the lost continent of Atlantis who lost favor with the gods. To regain their favor, each peryton must kill one person; after doing so, their shadow reflects their true form.
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Sep 22nd 2018 at 9:05:15 AM
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Perytons were never something people actually believed in. A specific guy whose name i forgot made them up whole cloth and then tried to fake ot as real mythological entity.
Anything from Sami and Finnish mythologies (Like Tuonen Joutsen and Iku-Turso), except for trolls which can be found from almost every mythology in the world in some form
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Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
The peryton was actually made up in the 20th century. It's still cool though.
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I dunno if someone's mentioned this one already, but the nue from Japanese mythology is pretty interesting. It's kind of like a chimera.
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It first appeared in a 1957 book that cited a lost manuscript as its source, so yes & no.
Did the manuscript get lost after 1957, or did the book actually cite a lost manuscript?
Let's just say and leave it at that.
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The book cited & quoted a manuscript that disappeared in WWII. I have a copy.
The Perytons had their original dwelling in Atlantis and are half deer, half bird. They have the deer’s head and legs. As for its body, it is perfectly avian, with corresponding wings and plumage . . . Its strangest trait is that, when the sun strikes it, instead of casting a shadow of its own body, it casts the shadow of a man. From this, some conclude that the Perytons are the spirits of wayfarers who have died far from their homes and from the care of their gods . . . . . . and have been surprised eating dry earth . . . flying in flocks and have been seen at a dizzying height above the Columns of Hercules. . . . they [Perytons] are mortal foes of the human race; when they succeed in killing a man, their shadow is that of their own body and they win back the favour of their gods. . . . and those who crossed the seas with Scipio to conquer Carthage came close to failure, for during the passage a formation of Perytons swooped down on the ships, killing and mangling many . . . Although our weapons have no effect against it, the animal - if such it be - can kill no more than a single man. . . . wallowing in the gore of its victims and then fleeing upward on its powerful wings. . . . in Ravenna, where they were last seen, telling of their plumage which they described as light blue in colour, which greatly surprised me for all that is known of their dark green feathers.
Though these excerpts are sufficiently explicit, it is to be lamented that down to our own time no further intelligence about the Perytons has reached us. The rabbi’s treatise, which preserved this description for us, had been on deposit until before the last World War in the library of the University of Dresden. It is painful to say that this document has also disappeared, and whether as a consequence of bombardment or of the earlier book burning of the Nazis, it is not known. Let us hope that one day another copy of the work may be discovered and again come to adorn the shelves of some library.
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on May 9th 2019 at 12:40:08 PM
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Consider the possibility that Jorge Luis Borges has been playing tricks on you.
Let's just say and leave it at that.
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton
"The peryton is a mythological hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird. The peryton was created and described by Jorge Luis Borges in his Book of Imaginary Beings, using a supposedly long-lost medieval manuscript as a source."
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Aztec, eh? My usual mythology sources mostly have unique individuals there, rather than generic monsters. Only thing I got is the ahuizotl, a doglike spiny aquatic thing that drowns people.
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