According to mythology - did griffins roam the streets of london at all?
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No - they are usually associated with the middle east.  The only reference to griffins living in the north of Europe is in the works of the Greek historian Herodotos who describes the northern land of Hyperborea being full of griffins.
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London is capital of england, so london does not have capital its a city
123353
The Red Dragon of Wales, is the symbol of resurgent Wales. The Red Dragon was originally a griffin on the standard of a Roman legion ... \nSorry couldn't tell you more about it.\ngood luck on finding the whole story.\nTry different searchengines, it must be out there somewhere.
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Yes, walk along Oxford Street and look in the shop windows... Beleive it or not they will sometimes advertise in the window if they need help. If you dont want central London just ask for any word on the South East. Good luck and put your most comfy shoes on for some walkin and a talkin girl...
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1. It comes from mythology. Witches, who often took the form of their familiars - cats, are supposed to have ridden the wind. Dogs and wolves were attendants to Odin, the god of storms and sailors associated them with rain.\n\nWell, some evidence would be nice. There doesn't appear to be any to support this notion.\n\n2. The phrase is supposed to have originated in England in the 17th century when city streets were filthy and heavy rain would occasionally carry along dead animals.\n\nThe idea that seeing a dead cats and dogs floating by in storms would cause people to coin this phrase is far fetched, but just about believable.\n\n3. Another suggestion is that it comes from a version of the French word, catadoupe, meaning waterfall. \n\nReturning to facts rather than idle speculation we do know that the phrase was in use in a modified form in 1653, when Richard Brome's The City Wit, has the line "It shall raine .. Dogs and Polecats".\n\nPolecats aren't cats as such but the jump between them in linguistic rather than veterinary terms isn't large. \n\nI like the idea of number 2, what do you think?
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Well common sense, to me it sort of goes like this....\nALL mythology has some sort of real-world counterpart.  What this means is that essentially that all myths contain some sort of universal truth when you strip away the dross.  As far as mythological creatures are concerned, I do believe that some may have definantly existed.  To say things such as ancient mariners thought that manatees were mermaids is a bit presumptuous.  That's making a giant assumption, saying that we know what and how ancient mariners thought, which we obviously cannot know for a fact.  So called mythological creatures are being discovered all the time.  A few years back, a breed of deer was discovered in Asia that was thought to have been a mythological creature.  It was tiny and breathed through the sides of its snout instead of having a nose.  For centuries, science scoffed at its existence, until one day someone caught one...And science looked stupid, as it does so often by down-playing things that don't fit its paradigm.\nThe unicorn was a creature featured in the original painting of the creatures going into Noah's Ark, two by two...I believe that they were probably abundant somewhere in the wrld at one time, but got wiped out as so many species do.\nIN fact, we discover new species of creatures every single day...Fish we thought were extinct, thus becoming the realm of myth....Giant squid, Giant sharks (Aussie Coast), and a plethora of critters that by our own technical and scientific standards shouldn't even exist (all those little critters living along the Mariennes Trench in water that's well over the temperature  that's supposed to support life)....\nIn closing, my answer to you is a YES.  I do believe at one point the so called "mythological" creatures not only existed, but were common as well.  Hit some of the crypto zoology websites and you'll see what I mean about everything I've written....Sites that deal with forbidden history are also a great source of information.\nPEACE!
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As far as I know they only had myths that were first passed on as oral traditions and then later written down. Specific temples might have had writings pertaining to the god who the temple belonged to but I can't see too much of that surviving to present day.
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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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There is no way we can prove that they weren't, but there is absolutely no evidence that they were.\n\nThis is what is called an "Argument from Ignorance", and it is completely logically invalid. We could apply the same argument to show that the huricanes that struck the USA last year were caused by dragons or leprechauns.\n\nAlthough there is no evidence to suggest that leprechauns or dragons did cause the hurricanes there is no way that we can prove that they did not.\n\nWhat science does in these cases is apply Occam's razor. We can invoke the idea the global wamring of less than 1oC has increased the incidence of hurricanes, or we can go with the far simpler idea that it is simply random variation. Science demands that we go with random variation until we have some evidence to the contrary.\n\nBy applying Occam's razor we also get to rule out dragons, leprechaun's, pixies and the wrath of God as explanations. It is by the rigorous applictaions of these logical principles that science has allowed us to learn so much about the world. We can't just discard them when we want to see evidence of the effecst of global warming.
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"The OED cites an 1811 reference to a "pig" as a Bow Street Runner--the early police force, named after the location of their headquarters, before Sir Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police Force (see above.) Before that, the term "pig" had been used as early as the mid-1500s to refer to a person who is heartily disliked."\n\n2nd link shows the Cleveland Police Seal, looking suspicously porcine...
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Was it the Out of Towners?
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Categorically, no.\n\nIt's fallen down, been burnt, sold, and all sorts of other mishaps, but never resonated.  See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge\n\nThere *were* problems with the Milennium footbridge, which did resonate to the frequency of people's footsteps, though - see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Millennium_Bridge\n\nThat sounds more like what you're after.
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Aw, they don't? Then I would say Fenrisulfr, or Fenrir the wolf. From Norse mythos, NOT Narnia crap...
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There is an "end of the world" myth in every civilization, most involve the gods coming down and remaking the world as well. \n\nMany civilizations have a flood myth, lots have some tell of giants, unicorns, trolls and the such. That doesn't mean they're bound to happen, only that all the people of the world wondered about these things.
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Probably not, as there is some link between the Olympian sky gods and those that evolved into the Hindu pantheon.  The remainder were indigenous native spirits and animal totems plus a very strong goddess cult represented by such goddesses as Rhea, Hera, Athena, Demeter and Kore (Persephone), plus many others, often arranged into triads.\n\n["Nephilim" comes from the Bible, and means "fallen ones," though it has also been translated as "giants."]
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London first started in what is now called York. It moved to it's current location during the 1732 "London Up Rising", You can see the where it was draged as this mark to route of the A1
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Well here's what my mother told me when I was little concerning Unicorn's and why they are no longer walking the earth.\n\nShe said that they were very playful creatures, and that when Noah was building the arc..and gathering all the animals to get on it, they were too busy playing around, to get on the boat in time...\n\nHA~ Sad yes, but it's what she told me...LOL