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contexts. Ethnologist Ivar Lissner theorized that cave paintings of beings combining human and animal features were not physical representations of mythical hybrids, but were instead attempts to depict shamans in the process of acquiring the mental and spiritual attributes of various beasts or
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were human sized birds with the faces of human women. They were once considered beautiful creatures but over time were then considered to be ugly and hideous. Harpies were used for torture; their most known torture was that of
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who was said to have offended the heavens. They would torture their victims by taking food from them and polluting what was left with their feces. They would leave just enough for their victims to stay alive.
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Remains similar to those of mythological hybrids have been found in burial sites discovered by archaeologists. Known combinations include
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and a woman figure, interpreted as representations of the theriomorphic and the anthropomorphic aspect of the same goddess.
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Hybrid monsters in the Classical World: the nature and function of hybrid monsters in Greek mythology, literature and art
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Murgatroyd, Paul. "5. Other Winged Monsters ." Mythical Monsters in Classical Literature, Bloomsbury, pp. 10–69.
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cow which is considered to be the mother of all other cattle, is often portrayed as a cow with human head,
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and bird, respectively) in their early attestations, but become partly human hybrids in later iconography.
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How Preschool Children View Mythological Hybrid Figures: A Study of Human/animal Body Imagery.
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Human/Animal Body Imagery: Judgment of Mythological Hybrid (Part-Human, Part-Animal) Figures
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Lawrence, Elizabeth. "The Centaur: Its History and Meaning in Human Culture." 27 Apr. 1994,
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Judgment of the humanness/animality of mythological hybrid (part-human, part-animal) figures
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The multidimensional structure of mythological hybrid (part-human, part-animal) figures
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Mythological creature combining body parts of more than one real species
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with horns, however, is due to a mistranslation of the Hebrew text of
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Non-human hybrids also appear in ancient Egyptian iconography, as in
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Rites and Symbols of Initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth
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Such hybrids can be classified as partly human hybrids (such as
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Komposite Gottheiten in der ägyptischen Ikonographie //
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has observed that beliefs regarding animal identity and
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from the entrance to the throne room of the palace of
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all trace their origins to Assyro-Babylonian art. In
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The motif of the winged man appears in the Assyrian
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