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No creature symbolizes eternal life more than the phoenix, a mythical bird known as much for its beauty as its immortality.

Phoenix

Dragon mythology extends back through the ages at least 4,000 years. They are commonly depicted as large flying reptiles that breathe fire or shoot deadly poison from their nostrils. Tales of these giant beasts date to the dawn of human existence. Some cultures actually revere the dragon for being gentle and wise.

Dragon

This mythical animal is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and the monster Medusa. He is portrayed as a beautiful winged horse, sometimes white, sometimes white with gold wings and sometimes gold all over.

Pegasus

The Griffin is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle's talons as its front feet. Because the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle the king of birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature.

Griffin

Kitsune is the Japanese word for the fox. Stories depict them as intelligent beings and as possessing paranormal abilities that increase with their age and wisdom.

Kitsune

Different from other goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis.

Nymph

In Greek tradition, the Sphinx has the head of a human, the haunches of a lion, and sometimes the wings of a bird. It is mythicised as treacherous and merciless. Those who cannot answer its riddle suffer a fate typical in such mythological stories, as they are killed and eaten by this ravenous monster.

Sphinx

In Greek mythology a Harpy was a half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds, in Homeric poems. They were generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens, faces pale with hunger and long claws on their hands.

Harpy

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