Showing posts with label serpent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serpent. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Leviathan

The Leviathan is the primordial sea monster who God finally slays during the battle of Armageddon. Leviathan is described as a massive serpent which lives under the "sources of the deep." Myths of sea serpents and dragons are common to many of the religions of the Middle East.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Osciwurm

Osciwurms are winged, flying serpents. They spend most of their lives in the air, and only really nest to sleep and lay eggs. Osciwurms hunt by straightening out their long bodies like a spear, then dive bombing and skewering prey.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Cainaline Dragon


Cainaline Dragons are have a long, winding body type, are warm blooded, and are covered in hair. The older the specimen is, the longer it grows. Cainalines are natural magic users. Most adults develop the ability to fly by harnessing the Earth's ambient magical energy. Cainalines will usually focus their innate magical abilities towards the pursuit of one (usually positive) emotion or concept, such as love, vigor, happiness, wisdom, or Luck. They are generally good natured and friendly towards humans, although "evil" Cainalines are known to exist.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Quetzal Dragon

Quetzal Dragons are large, feathered serpents. Quetzals grow to immense sizes, up to hundreds of feet for the truly ancient. The head is serpent-like, with a large amount of brightly colored plumage. The rest of the creature's body may or may not be feathered, depending on breed. There is a subset of this type which is also winged. Quetzal dragons were worshiped in the pre-Colombian Americas.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Lambton Worm

A large, albino dragon thrown into a well by a small child names John Lambton. The white worm fed upon the wastes of the village and grew to an immense length, and then terrorized the surrounding country side for years to come. Lambton eventually returns from the crusades and battles the worm.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Python


In Greek mythology, the Python was a chthonic guardian of the oracle of Delphi. Hera sent Python to consume the goddess Leto as she gave birth to Apollo, thus Apollo returned the favor and slew the beast with his arrows, and turned the oracle of Delphi to his own purposes.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Wurm


A type of flightless dragon, Wurms are highly poisonous and prefer aquatic environments. They may appear as small, ordinary snakes after hatching, but quickly grow into huge monsters, averaging several meters long. Many legends in Europe tell of Wurms poisoning wells, frequenting swamps and moats, or extracting tribute in the form of cattle or virgins from nearby towns.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Serpenzo, the serpent boy


Serpenzo the serpent boy was born with an extremely rare condition, so incredibly rare that science had not yet cataloged it. His entire body below the shoulders took the form of a long, snake-like structure, with mid-ridge spines and a "rattler" at the end. His unique birth defect eventually became known as "Lamia syndrome."

Shunned from normal human society, Serpenzo eventually made a name for himself traveling the world and exibiting himself in a circus side show. Upon the death of his fourth wife under dubious circumstances Serpenzo disappeared, and has become somewhat of an urban legend.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Dragon



Dragons are large reptilian beasts that are known to cultures the world over in one form or another. The actual morphology of the dragon differs as much as the culture in question. Dragons can have two, four, or no limbs, be winged or wingless, live in caves or in the heavens. Unlike their Eastern Counterparts the Western Dragon is an embodiment of evil, and will slaughter villages, poison water sources, spew fire or venom, and demand virgin sacrifice. In the Middle Ages the dragon became a symbol for the forces of righteousness (in this case, Christianity) to defeat in order to preserve civilization. Folk tales are bursting with stories of such beasts dispatched by kings, knights, and even children. However the image of the dragon was also appropriated into the crests of several royal houses for it's strength and wisdom.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Zahhak


An ancient king from Persian / Zoroastrain folklore. Zahhak was a just and wise king, until tempted by Ahriman (Satan,) who transformed him into a three headed-dragon like monster. Zahhak must feed the two serpent heads which sprout from his body the brains of human captives, less they turn on him and devour his own.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Quetzalcoatl



Quetzalcoatl was worshiped in one form or another by many different Mesoamerican cultures. He is usually associated with teaching and wisdom, water, and the morning star. Quetzalcoatl has a (perhaps biased) depiction in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis as a monstrous serpent, devouring a man, but is often shown in human form as well from various pre-Columbian sources. Depictions of the God as feathered serpent (or amphithere) go back to the Olmec culture (1150 - 500 B.C.) and before.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Chinese River Dragon




Dragons in China are not the lumbering, hoarding, agents of evil that their western counterparts are. Instead they are embodiments of divine power. Chinese dragons are intermediaries between heaven and earth, and rule over the cardinal directions (north, south, east, west.) Throughout history they have been represented in many different forms in Chinese traditional art, however the archetype that eventually emerged is that of a long, undulating, coiled serpentine form with beard and whiskers, brightly colored, carp-like scales, horns like a stag or antelope, and sometimes highly stylized wings (which also resemble the horns.) Traditional depictions have dragons with four digits, while the red Imperial dragon has five.