The Myth: Greek – a hybrid creature In Greek mythology the centaurus were the offspring of Ixion, the king of Thessaly, and a cloud. Followers of Dionysus , a god of fertiliy, they were regarded as uncouth and savage , though some became teachers of human beings.

CENTAURUS Three centaurus are playing upon the hill. They are strange. They have hooves. They stamp the groung strongly. And look at the poet. Fixing thier eyes. They are fruious and jump around. Then they go out of the way and race into the wood. They are wild and strange .

The Myth : Indian - a minor god of the Hindu religion . Ganesha embodies success , prosperity,wisdom, peace,and the good life. A very popular figure in modern Hindu festival parades , Ganesha rides upon a rat.

GANESHA, GANESH has an elephant face and a human body. He holds old treasures in his four hands. He will make every wish true as he can He has a broken tusk and hurls at the sun. He is full and riding on a rat. He is happy. He likes food and full of treats. If you ask a wish you should offer him some food.He has jewelery on his neck and a crown on his head. His body is pink, but can change into yellow or red. He is a wise old god. When you go to India visit the places he likes to sit, so your wishes may come true.

The Myth: Greek – European a ater being. Some stories say a mermaid had two tails or legs and could change into a real woman and live as a human on land until the sea called for her return. Mermaids known as the sirens lured sailors

with thier singing to a watery death or a new life under the sea.

MERMAID UNDERSEAThe green and cool Mermaid

keeps the sea like a swimming school. Oysters come quiclkly, lobsters come in a showy manner, and dolphins also come to join the dance. Mermaid teaches them to dance. But all the small jellyfish cannot learn the steps of the dance.

CHINESE DRAGON

As the sun is coming into a shape like a ball, I am following my friend. He thinks that his fast horses would leave me behind, but I am riding a dragon . It is as quick as the wind.

Oriental dragons are fierce, powerful, wise and rich, but also quite benevolent.

• While the sun is going down and the shadows cannot be seen easily on the sand, he gets up, stretches and stands. Then moves to the Nile to wash. And removes the mummy- dust and sand from its body with its heavy tongue untill the cool night air is gone, till the morning. It leaves dry murmurs like powdered rock on Egyptian earth.

The Myth :Greek, Egyptian, Middle Eastern – a fabulous beast found in several mythologies. In Egypt , where it guarded tombs and temples, it had a man’s head and a symbol of tthe god Horus. The Greek sphinx was female and lived on the rocks above the city of Thebes. She devoured all passersby who could not answer the riddle she posed.

The Myth : Greek, Roman – a winged horse born from the blood of Medusa when she was slain by Perseus. Pegasus carried the hero Bellerophon in his battle with the Chimera. Some myths say springs rose where Pegasus’ hooves touched the earth. He was the horse of the Muses, connected to poetry. You cannot capture Pegasus. He runs in a ryhtm. His one eye shows sorrow the other joy. He runs in heaven and jumps on earth. He has wings. No one but only the poet can ride him without rein. He is the stallion of heaven and steed of the skies. And he sings when flying.

The Myth: Australian – a mythcial creature af waterways and billibongs (stagnant pools). Its apperance is most oftencharacterized as being unknown . Nevertheless , it has been described as dark with long fur or feathers, with or

without horn or legs, oval shaped , web-footed, both large and small, with gloving eyes and a loud below.

BUNYIPBunyip asks the wallaby (Australia kangaroo )whata bunyip looks like. Wallaby says it is horrible. They have webbed foot and feathers. Bunyip asks if they re fine , but wallaby answeres again horrible. Then bunyip asks the same to a man. The man

says it doesn’t look like anything becuse simply it doesn’t exist. Bunyip was shoches and murmured “what a pity”

Indian – the Hindu mythological mount for the god Vishnu. Garuda is associated with the sun and symbolizes swiftness and strength. He is a destroyer serpents and cure snake bites.

He is in the dusty tamarind tree. Once he was a blazing bird of light and partly a man. Now he trims his old tried wings and remembers how he bored Lord Vishnu over the lands. He is now resting his tried claws and ancient arms. He doesn’t have a nest, but is warm in the jungle while its feathers are disappearing..

The Myth : Mexican, American Indian – the plumed serpent god of Toltee, Aztec, and other North American Indian tribes. He was identified with the wind and with great moral principles and respect for life. He taught the people writing , painting, dancing, how to raise corn, and cotton, and how to work with gold, metal and wood.

QuetzalcoatlIn the early times of the world, farmer met Quetzalcoatl in a field by a rustling plant. He whispered in Farmer’s ear like wind. This plant’s leaves is more precious than green plumes and its heart is harder than jade . The farmer asks the name and it answers it is maize.

Kracken – Norwegian- a round somewhat flat , floating sea monster large enough to be mistaken by sailor for an island, It causes whirlpools, and when it sinks beneath the waves , it engulfs any ship in the

area.

Kracken lives beneath the icy waves and waits for the ships passing. It would eat them as we eat potato chips.

Greek, Roman-the watchdog at the Gates of Hades who allowed only the dead to pass. He was said to have three or more heads jaws

dripping with poisonus foam. Some say he had snakes growing from behind his neck and along his back or that his tail was a snake.

Gerberus Cerberus three headed

terrible dog lies close to the ground and is baying wildly from its three throats. He is watching out Pluto’s house. Nobody can escape from it. It is very dangerous.

Greek hybrid lion . Although pictured with a lion’s mane the chimera was considered female. The Greek hero Bellerophon, riding upon

the winged horse Pegasus, did battle with her and slew her.

Chimera Are you always polite or can you

dare to fight Chimera? If you do, you won’t like it, because it has three dangerous heads; lion, goat and snake. But Belleporon comes riding the winged horse Pegasus, Belleporon is very brave, he says to Chimera you don’t exist, you can’t be real with those many heads. And with a sword he killed it.

Greek –a marvelous seahorse with the lower body of a dolphin . ın various sources it has a serpent’s tail . It pulled the chariot of Poseidon, the god of the sea.

• Hippocamp the incredible horse; half fish once travelled the ancient Greece sea. It is very brave. Noone can trample down the waves like it with his scarcy scaly tail. It fulfills every fish’s wish. Is it a creature or is it a myth remarkable in minds as a single large body?

Anansi – African carrabian- a clever spider who has human qualities . Anansi a folk hero in west Africa , appears in some stories as a human who has spider abilities a real spiderman , sometimes wise , sometimes foolish, and always

mischievous.

• Anansi is the spider of Ashanti people. In Ashanti people like Kwaku anansi, It is red and funny, wise and lovable, and he tricks. He is a very cunning figure, he causes trouble and always falls in trouble.

Okolo : Nigerian – a legendary leopard warrior of the Yourba tribe represented in a ceremonial dan mask.

Okolo is a very good fighter. People think he is very powerful. He comes from the forest. He stands with pride, the lord of the beasts and then goes back to the forest. He leaps on its prey like a leopard.

Manticore Middle eastren – a powerful creature with the body of a lion , the head of a man , a tail with the spikes of scorpion’s stinger, and an oversized

mouth with three rows of sharp -shark teeth. It especially liked to eat humans. The manticore could not be fenced or walled in since it could jump to great

heights.

Manticore is a mystic beast. He was first a man, then a dragon and there is lion between them. Noone has seen him, nor the combination of the

creatures above. It means manticore cannot be seen, it is not real.

I am a drogon. Children like me

• I am a dragon. Children like me. You are a child. All my heads are green, and handsome. All my eyes are red and wild. I have claws on my feet, and hooks on the claws. I am wild. Smoke comes out from all my noses, it is very hot. Fearsome.There are points upon all my tails. All my teeth are sharp and blue. But ı like you so I won’t hurt you, I won’t bite you badly.All my scales are like arrows. İf you touh me they will hurt you, so don’t treat me as a pet although you love me.