the monster in ancient greek mythology, its human body bufaloo head, live in labyrinth. no baphomet?
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In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a creature that was part man and part bull. It dwelt in the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze constructed by King Minos of Crete and designed by the architect Daedalus to hold the Minotaur. The Minotaur was eventually killed by Theseus.\n\n"Minotaur" is Greek for "Bull of Minos". The bull was also known as Asterius or Asterion, a name shared with Minos's foster father.\n\nThe story\nBefore Minos became king, he asked the Greek god Poseidon for a sign, to assure him that he, and not his brother, was to receive the throne. Poseidon agreed to send a white bull on condition Minos would sacrifice the bull back to the god. Indeed, a bull of unmatched beauty came out of the sea. King Minos, after seeing it, found it so beautiful that he instead sacrificed another bull, hoping that Poseidon would not notice. Poseidon was very angry when he realized what had been done so he caused Minos's wife, Pasiphae, to be overcome with a fit of madness in which she fell in love with the bull. Pasiphae went to Daedalus for assistance, and Daedalus devised a way for her to satisfy her passions. He constructed a hollow wooden cow covered with cowhide for Pasiphae to hide in and allow the bull to mount her. The result of this union was the Minotaur. In some accounts, the white bull went on to become the Cretan Bull captured by Heracles (also known as Hercules) for one of his labours.\n\nThe Minotaur had the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull. It was a fierce creature, and Minos, after getting advice from the Oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus construct a gigantic labyrinth to hold the Minotaur. It was located under Minos' palace in Knossos. Now it happened that Androgeus, son of Minos, had been killed by the Athenians, who were jealous of the victories he had won at the Panathenaic festival. To avenge the death of his son, Minos waged war and won. He then demanded that seven Athenian youths and seven maidens be sent every ninth year to be devoured by the Minotaur. When the third sacrifice came round, Theseus volunteered to go to slay the monster. He promised to his father, Aegeus, that he would put up a white sail on his journey back home. Ariadne, Minos' daughter, fell in love with Theseus and helped him get out of the maze by giving him a ball of thread, allowing him to retrace his path. Theseus killed the Minotaur (with a magical sword Ariadne had given him) and led the other Athenians back out the labyrinth. (Plutarch, Theseus, 15—19; Diod. Sic. i. I6, iv. 61; Apollodorus iii. 1,15). However Theseus forgot to put up the white sails, so his father started crying and fell into the sea. Then it became known as the Aegean Sea.\n\nMinos, angry that Theseus was able to escape, imprisoned Daedalus and his son Icarus in the labyrinth. They were able to escape by building wings for themselves, but Icarus died during the escape as he flew too high and the wax which held the feathers in the wing melted as it was closer to the Sun.\n\nSometimes the Minotaur is represented as a bull with a human torso and head, like a bull version of the Centaur.\n\nTheseus battles the Minotaur on a black-figure vase.[edit]\nInterpretations\nThe contest between Theseus and the Minotaur was frequently represented in Greek art. A Knossian didrachm exhibits on one side the labyrinth, on the other the Minotaur surrounded by a semicircle of small balls, probably intended for stars; it is to be noted that one of the monster's names was Asterius.\n\nThe ruins of Minos' palace at Knossos have been found, but the labyrinth has not. The enormous number of rooms, staircases and corridors in the palace has led archaeologists to believe that the palace itself was the source of the labyrinth myth.\n\nSome modern mythologists regard the Minotaur as a solar personification and a Greek adaptation of the Baal-Moloch of the Phoenicians. The slaying of the Minotaur by Theseus in that case indicates the
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Beautiful Human females with rather large breasts!\nThus began the Nephilim.\n\nLoL, I love mythology!
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Post this in the Mythology section, or maybe Entertainment.\n\nMaybe someone will be amused.
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Read Job 41:15-24. This animal "behemoth" does line up with all the features of a dinosaur. And it doesn't fully line up with any other animal that I know.\nAn interesting fact might be that Job is considered to be the oldest book in the Bible.
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If you read the current archeological literature, you will read many contradictions. For one, they tell you that pyramids are essentially tombs for pharaohs, when in reality, not one mummy was found in the Great Pyramid of Giza for example. I specify that pyramid, because two chambers inside it are called the king’s and queen’s chambers and so people assume it’s because mummies were found there. Yet, archeologists stubbornly insist that they were tombs. They also INTERPRET the book of the dead as a reference by the Egyptians about the journey the dead take in the afterlife. As a result, they feel compelled to dismiss the ‘emerald tablets of thoth’ as fanciful magical verses and gibberish. Consider the fact that you don’t see many archeologists talking about the glyphs in Abydos that show glyphs resembling helicopters and flying vehicles? http://www.crystalinks.com/ancientaircraft.html \nIf you read those tablets, you will understand that the book of the dead was not about the dead at all. It was referring to something similar to out of body experiences. The Egyptians were knowledgeable in sacred geometry and spirituality. It was describing ways for one to be ‘free of the body’ and roam other dimensions freely. The book of the dead was a symbolic representation of a hidden knowledge; a decoy of sorts for the ‘real’ knowledge meant for the ‘worthy’… the emeralds of thoth. This knowledge represented the ability to travel by thought and intention alone anywhere in the universe, among other things. It holds many secrets. Some concepts reflect understandings we have today of 'quantum physics' and the nature of cause and effect (that effects precedes the cause)...etc.
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The God of the Old Testament certainly exhibits a violent nature. He is truly not a God of love or compassion. I notice his personality makes drastic changes from time to time. The more I study the Bible, the more I am coming to think that it is no more than myth.
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Lucifer (light bringer) is almost a direct ripoff of the Titan Prometheus from Greco-Roman mythology. Prometheus created humans in an idle moment, and really pissed off the gods by giving them fire (knowledge) and got "cast down" (chained to a rock with an eagle nibbling his liver) for his naughtiness. Only major difference is they removed the creation myth tie in.\n\nRemind you of any stories involving a garden and an apple?\n\nWake up folks, even their book states that knowledge is the worst enemy christans ever had. Right in the beginning no less...
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Actually there are Greeks that still worship the Gods of the old religion( including Poseidon!)! Check the following sites!
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Herman Melville refers to Leviathan as a monstrous whale in Moby-Dick. I think most biblical references connote monstrous fish. I think dragons are from the Asian and European cultures, wrong time period, wrong culture. Dinosaurs were not known to exist either, wrong time period. I think whales would have been the most monstrous and prolific of all sea creatures during the time period.
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I would think that the nearest thing we have to actual dragons might be crocks and gators. There is also the Komoto dragon,which is huge enough to eat humans too. I can't say that a dragon is a total myth. The Bible refers to satan as not just a serpent in tbe garden; but as a dragon. Job has the best description of all. Start with Job 41:1 and read through to 41:34 for a description of a dragon. Real or myth? You must decide.  Job 41:18-21  18.By his neecing  "sneezing" (see Websters) a light doth shine and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning (A red sunrise?). 19.Out of his mouth go burning lamps and sparks of fire leap out. 20.Out of his nostrils goeth smoke as out of a great seething pot or cauldron. 21. His breath kindleth coals and a flame goeth out of his mouth.   Sound familiar?  Also read Neh.2:12 about "dragon well." Isiah27:1  "the serpent, the dragon of the sea."  Rev. 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in the heavens; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads, ten horns and seven crowns upon hid head.  Rev. 12:9 and Rev.20  =========================================================  Unicorn is mentioned 6 times in the Bible.  Numbers 23:22  Numbers 24:8; Job 39:9  Job 39:10; Psalms 29:6 and Psalms 92:10 where the horn of the unicorn is mentioned. I cannot make up your mind or the minds of others who may read this, but it Is in the Bible, in black and white. ============================================================And tho it does not say computer/telephone/cable tv/ or satalite tv. It does speak about it's being in existance in the last days.  And I quote:  Rev. 11:8 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations (the whole earth) shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies be put in graves. (At the end of this time of 3 and 1/2 days these dead prophets will stand up alive and well again and the whole world will see).  Cars?  Nahum 2:4 The chariots (cars) shall rage(speeding/road rage?)in the streets. they shall justle ( bump/wreck or crash) one against another in the broadways (streets/interstates?)they shall seem like tourches (headlights on after dark?), they shall run like the lightenings (any thing that can or could run faster than the fastest horse drawn chariots of the day, would appear to run...Like lightening...right?)=========================================================== Now, I will not demand you believe, but it sounds as if someone knew about the future (back in the day....) Maybe you should also check out John the Relelators description of a  trip God took him on into todays time. And he watched wars and many other things he had not words for. I'll let those wanting to know about it look in  the  sources below.
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Actually, there is a mythology character...Morpheus, the god of sleep, was imagined as a shape changer...hence the term, Polymorphism. He could appear in dreams in any shape he chose.
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In Greek Mythology. Any of the three sisters Stheno, Euryale, and the mortal Medusa who had snakes for hair.
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None. A hippogriff is an imaginary creature out of Greek mythology.
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Bacchus/Dionysus was the god of wine.  Silenus is the god of "beer buddies"
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Crazy Fire is mistaken. King Midas was the one who wished for gold. Medusa is from Greek Mythology.\n\n"Medusa was a terrible monster who had laid waste to the country. She was once a beautiful maiden whose hair was her chief glory, but as she dared to vie in beauty with Athena, the goddess deprived her of her charms and changed her beautiful ringlets into hissing serpents. She became a cruel monster of so frightening an aspect that no living thing could behold her without being turned into stone. All around the cavern where she dwelt might be seen the stony figures of men and animals which had chanced to catch a glimpse of her and had been petrified with the sight. Perseus, favored by Athena and Hermes, the former of whom lent him her shield and the latter his winged shoes, approached Medusa while she slept, and taking care not to look directly at her, but guided by her image reflected in the bright shield which he bore, he cut off her head and gave it to Athena, who fixed it in the middle of her Aegis."
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There are many montrous lions in mythology.\nThe Chimera another Greek legend, had the body of a lion and the heads of the lion, goat and dragon.\nThe griffin of Greek mythology had the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle.\nThe Manticore has the body of a lion and the face of a man, and it eats people.\nThe androsphinx has the body of a lion and the face of a man.\nThe Criosphinx has the body of a lion and the head of an eagle.\nSo the previous answers were partially correct.\nThe Hippogriff was a winged horse with eagle claws and head.\n\nAs for just winged lions this seems to be the creature that the goddess Ishtar favored, but I don't know what the Babylonians called them. Sorry.\nThis site might be able to tell you, but I don't know.
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OK, you discovered that did you? The next step is for you to notice that the pyramids along the Nile are laid out to mimic the shape of the constellation Orion. I'll wait, go Google that to check. \n\nWhen you are convinced of that, then you must have two more bits of information. Your brain ready for this? \n\nLife on the Nile depended upon the annual flooding to bring life-giving water to the fields. No flooding, not much crops, starvation. Remember Pharaoh's dreams about the fat cows and the lean cows? Right. \n\nPriests need to be able to predict things for their people. It gives people reasons to support their priests. There really are not much as what you can call seasons so near the equator. One thing did show when the flood SHOULD be coming (in otherwords, when it would be raining down south in the mountains of the headwaters of the Nile) and that was when the constellation of Orion, or more properly, the brightest star in the sky (besides the sun) Sirius would rise just a few moments before the sun - the helical rising of Sirius.\n\nThere is a shaft, often called an "air shaft" that goes down the Great Pyramid at Giza, very strictly aligned. When astronomers were able to do computer modeling to take into consideration the procession of the equinoxes and the apparent wobble of the earth on its axis, they were astonished to find out that this air shaft aligned to when Sirius would rise with the Sun. \n\nSirius, as you probably have seen used as the logo for Sirius satellite radio, is called "The Dog Star." \n\nHow does that all go together? And why am I telling you this? One more thing and I will let you go look some more.\n\nLook up the Dogon people of Africa. Remember now that Egypt is on the African continent. They have a story of how they got here (earth). They claim they got here on ships with Gods from another place. That place is Sirius. The gods, they say, had fish tails - looks a lot like the great God Dagon over in the Middle East, Philistines worshipped Him - and at least one of the gods died on the journey. \n\nBut god and dog are English words. None of this is real. This is all just fancy word-play made up to confuse you. Nobody believes this. This is not a story my people tell; this is just something I tell you who read this right now. \n\nDrab as a fool, aloof as a bard!