Mythological creatures
of ancient Egypt
Centaur
Ancient Egypt in the Temple of Esna a painting depicting the constellations and the Egyptian time of the gods On the ceiling of the temple in the earliest art of the zodiac visible today the detailed inscription was revealed during the restoration project of the group of people born by the cloud nymph Nephele leaving half-bodied children on Mount Pelion and raising them hunting wild animals for food The zodiac Centaur was used as decoration on personal sarcophagi. Centaur in Ancient Egyptian mythology in the Temple of Esna an ancient civilization in central Egypt from the restoration of archaeologists cleaning the soot on the west bank of the Nile near the city of Luxor once known as Thebes more than 2,000 years old perfectly preserved showing constellations a rare decoration in Egyptian temples. The centaur in Greek Roman and Egyptian mythology has a significant detail on the half-man half-horse creatures associated with the fighting gods Saturn Mars Jupiter the ancient Egyptians from the detailed restoration work on the ceiling of the temple for two thousand years which appeared on the stone.
The Kentauroi a group of cave dwellers centaurs a group of cave dwellers in the mountains of the Thessalian Magnesia armed with stones the body of a horse with legs an animal with a head and arms the body of a human being. An ancient animal that has existed for a long time in Egypt and Greek-Roman times. There are also inscriptions of the kudurru or centaur which are depicted in Greek vase paintings which are inscribed in bas-relief with scenes of figures half-man half-horse creatures Stone monuments called kudurru or naru which centaurs in ancient times had two tails a lion's head turned back wearing a human head ornament long hair roots reaching the shoulders and a tail of a scorpion and were armed with a bow and arrow Creatures from Greek mythology
Centaurs in Greek mythology were named after their brother Centaurus. Centaurs are more ferocious than ordinary centaurs have larger bodies than normal. They are believed to have lived in the Malian Peninsula in southern Laconia and the Pelion Mountains of Thessaly The oak forests of Foloi in Elis in the Magnesian region can be seen in The Greek and Roman myth of Hercules. In one legend there was a tribe of Kentauroi, half-man half-horse centaurs with horns like bulls native to the island of Kypros or Cyprus in the western Peloponnese who clashed with the hero Heracles. They can be seen in art and classical literature as Kentauros hybrid beings with the upper body of a man and the torso and legs of a horse like Satyros.
Centaur The detailed appearance of the painting indicates a slave of passion a creature that is fierce untamed and unfriendly. But the centaur in legend also has a hero who is associated with sacrificing immortality to be with Prometheus and is placed in the constellation Centaurus. The star has a good quality in wisdom. Returning to help again in the matter of the poisonous arrow of Chiron the king of centaurs who is considered the most just among the centaurs has the wisest wisdom of all. Was accidentally shot through with a poisonous arrow by Heracles the gatekeeper of Olympus one of the gods in Greek mythology named Hercules.
Hydra
In the past according to the legends of the monsters from the Greek and Roman stories it was believed that the Lerna Peninsula river was the entrance to the underworld. Archaeologists say that it was a sacred place older than the giant Argos of Mycenaeans who saw everything It was a giant with many eyes in Greek mythology
Hydra of Lenaean This monster was killed by Hercules. It was sent by King Eurystheus to kill the Hydra The distinctive features of the Hydra are that it has nine heads and has a poisonous breath and smell According to legend every time a head is cut off a new head can grow. The Hydra head in the middle is an important head an immortal head. It can spit acid and fire to destroy living things It attacks cities along the Anigra River killing flocks of sheep It is a legendary creature of the Greek gods that is terrifying to the gods. It is a giant snake between seven and ten meters long and about five to twelve meters high that can live immortally. It came up to kill Heracles a god in Greek mythology
Triton
Under the sea the fish god of Tritonis the mermaid in Greek mosaic sculpture Triton lived in a lake called Tritonis near the shores of the Mediterranean Sea or the Nile the river of Egypt flowing north into the sea. Originally Triton was a mythological god. His father and mother were the gods Poseidon and Amphitrite.
Under the sea the fish god of Tritonis the mermaid in Greek mosaic sculpture Triton lived in a lake called Tritonis near the shores of the Mediterranean Sea or the Nile the river of Egypt flowing north into the sea. Originally Triton was a mythological god. His father and mother were the gods Poseidon and Amphitrite.
Athenian urn, 6th century BC.
In Greek art paintings it is a mermaid with a fish tail or a dolphin tail The green skin is like the sea full of shells It breeds into a group of fish gods of the sea Like Satyr the upper body is human and graceful Triton in Greek mythology is a messenger The symbol is a conch shell. It is like a horn that Triton can use to control the waves in the sea Triton is therefore important to the ancient Greeks especially the group of people who left the coast to find resources in the sea in the ancient past. And there is also an important sea god similar to Oceanus Pontus in the Greek pantheon of the gods
Stone sculpture, 1st century, Triton in the Metropolitan Museum / souquee
Triton is a sea god with roots in ancient Greek culture. It is sometimes said that the Aegean Sea was the home of Triton and his son Pallas. He became known as the sea god who was the origin of the Tritonian race and lived as an underwater temple in ancient Greek art and sculpture Triton is responsible for controlling the sea of the gods. He can travel anywhere in the ocean and fight against other creatures and humans who invade Triton's home He has gills as his servants throughout the ocean It is said that Triton created life under the sea in the past of the Greeks
TRITON / image : thehistoryblog
