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Sphinx In Ancient Egyptian, Hittite and early Greek art, a representation of a human head bn the body of a crouched lion. In Egypt, sphinxes were held to guard temples and tombs from intruders; they often bore the features of a pharaoh and the great rock-cut sphinx at Giza, 80 metres long and 20 metres ...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Caryatid Properly, a standing female figure sometimes substituted in a classical building for a column (usually of the Ionic order). Notable examples are to be found in the Cni-dian and Siphnian Treasuries (6th century bc) at Delphi in Greece, and one porch of the Erechtheum temple on the Acropolis at Ath...Added by archaeologs | English|Architectural, Mythology

Griffin Aiskhylos'un Prometheus'unda (804) ve Herodot tarihinde (III, 116 ve IV, 13) sözü geçen efsanelik kuşlara yun. "Gryps", batı dillerinde de "Griffon" adı verilir. Aiskhylos bu yaratıkları "havlamaz, uzun gagalı, kanatlı köpekler" olarak tanımlar. Başka bir söylenceye göre, gövdeleri aslan gövdesid...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Griffin Grifon (İng. Griffin), yarısı aslan, yarısı kartal olarak betimlenmiş mitolojik yaratıklara verilen ad.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Griffin Griffin, also spelled griffon or gryphon, composite mythological creature with a lion’s body (winged or wingless) and a bird’s head, usually that of an eagle. The griffin was a favourite decorative motif in the ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean lands. Probably originating in the Levant in ...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

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Kentauros Yunan mitolojisinde, Tesalya ve Arcadia dağlarında yaşayan yarı at, yarı insan olan yaratık. Üst gövdesi insan başı ve kollarından, alt gövdesi ise bir atın gövdesi ve dört ayağından oluşurdu.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Kentauros In Greek mythology, a race of creatures, part horse and part man, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. It had a human head and arms and upper body and the four legs and lower body of a horse.Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

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Ra The supreme god of ancient Egypt before his displacement by Amen (Amun). He was sun god and deity of the city of Heliopolis, whose cult is first attested in the name of the 2nd Dynasty ruler Raneb (c 2865 BC). Ra is depicted as a hawk-headed man with a sun disc on his head. He was especially impo...Added by archaeologs | English|God Names, Mythology

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Caryatid A supporting base or column of a structure shaped in the form of a woman. Most often, a caryatid supported a porch, entablature, or a colonnade and was in the form of a draped woman bearing it on her head. The best known are of the Erechtheum at Athens (420-415 BC) and other examples part of thre...Added by archaeologs | English|Architectural, Mythology

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Muse Musalar, Yunan mitolojisindeki ilham perileridir. Yunanca “mousa”, Latince “Musa” olarak adlandırılırlar. Bazı kaynaklarda “Müzler” olarak da karşımıza çıkarlar. “Mousa” kelimesi kökeni Yunanca akıl, düşünce, yaratıcılık gücü kavramlarını içeren “men” kökünden gelmektedir. Yalnızca şairlere şiirl...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Muse THE MOUSAI (Muses) were the goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets. They were also goddesses of knowledge, who remembered all things that had come to pass. Later the Mousai were assigned specific artistic spheres: Kalliope (Calliope), epic poetry; Kleio (Clio),...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Muse The Muses, according to the earliest writers, were the inspiring goddesses of song, and, according to later noticus, divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry, and over the arts and sciences. They were originally regarded as the nymphs of inspiring wells, near which they were worshi...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Muse Added by archaeologs | Mythology

Ketos Yunanca büyük deniz yaratıkları için kullanılan ad. Ketos balina anlamına da gelir.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Ketos Cetus or Ketos. A sea monster like fish or whale.Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

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Satyr Yunan ve Roma dininde yarı tanrı olarak kabul edilen mitolojik figür. Acımasız, şehvetli bir yüz ve keçi ayaklarına benzer ayaklar ile kıllı bir bedenle tasvir edilir.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Satyr A mythological figure. A demigod of the Greeks and Romans, whose characteristics were a brutal, sensual face, the feet of a goat and a hairy body. His head was covered with unkempt hair, from underneath which horns sprouted. Statues and masks of satyrs were frequently used as a decoration....Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

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Kerykeion Hermes'in taşıdığı barış simgesi asa. Yunan ve Roma uygarlıklarında haberciler ile elçilerin dokunulmazılığı belirten bir nişandı. Başlangıçta, ucunda iki filiz bulunan, genellikle çelenk ya da kurdelelerle süslenmiş bir değnek ya da zeytin dalı biçimindeydi. Daha sonra çelenkler, yüz yüze gelece...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Kerykeion The wand held by Hermes or a herald, topped by a closed circle and open circle at its top. Also called the caduceus in Latin.Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

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Pandia PANDEIA (Pandia) was a daughter of the sky-god Zeus and the moon-goddess Selene. She was perhaps the goddess of the full moon (panselênê in Greek), the earth-nourishing dew (hersê) or youth. Several other writers mention a daughters of Zeus and Selene named Ersa (Dew) and Nemeia. It is not clear...Added by archaeologs | English|Sacred Ceremonies, Mythology

Pandia Her yıl Munykhion ayının 19'unda Zeus ve ay tanrıçası onuruna kutlanan Attika festivali.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Sacred Ceremonies, Mythology

Pandia An Athenian festival established by Pandion, in honour of Jupiter. It was celebrated soon after the Dionysia.Added by archaeologs | English|Sacred Ceremonies, Mythology

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Kriophoros Hermes'i omzunda koç taşır biçimde betimleyen Antik heykel tipi.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Kriophoros Ancient sculpture type that depicts Hermes as carrying rams on his shoulder.Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Kriophoros Added by archaeologs | Mythology

Xanthos Podarge ve Zephyrus’dan doğma ölümsüz at. Xanthos ve kardeşi Balius, Hera tarafından Castor’a verilmiştir. Daha sonra Poseidon onları bir düğün hediyesi olarak Akhilleus'un babası Peleus'a vermiştir. Truva Savaşı sırasında, Xanthus ve Balius Akhilleus'un savaş arabasını çekmiştir....Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Xanthos Kula at anlamına gelen Ksanthos Akhilleus'un ölümsüz atlarından biridir. Patroklos'la Hektor arasındaki savaşa Balios'la birlikte katılır ve Patroklos öldükten sonra ağlar. Akhilleus'a Hektor'la savaşında da yardım eden bu ölümsüz at dile gelerek efendisine yakında öleceğini bildirir.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Xanthos Balios and Xanthos were a pair of immortal horses which the hero Peleus received from Poseidon at his marriage to the goddess Thetis. They drew the chariot of the couple's son Akhilleus (Achilles) during the Trojan War.Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Xanthos An immortal horse, the son of Podarge and Zephyrus. He and his brother Balius were first given to Castor by Hera. Later Poseidongave them to Peleus, the father of Achilles, as a wedding present. During the Trojan War, Xanthus and Balius drew the chariot of Achilles. Achilles' charioteer Automedo...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

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Lamassu Akad dilinde, tapınak ve saray girişlerinde koruyucu figürler olarak dikilmiş, insan başlı ve kanatlı boğaların ya da aslanların devasa heykellerini tanımlamak için kullanılır. Khorsabad ve Tell Nimrud gibi geç Asur bölgelerinin yanı sıra Persepolis gibi daha sonraki Akhamenid bölgelerinde de gör...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Lamassu Akkadian term used to refer to the colossal sculptures of human-headed winged bulls or lions which were erected as guardian figures in the entrances to temples and palaces at late Assyriaa sites such as Khorsabad and Tell Nimrud, as well as at later Achaemenid sites such as Persepolis.Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

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Medusa Medusa, Gorgonlar olarak bilinen Phorcys ve Ceto'da doğan üç kız kardeşden biridir. Hesiodos'un Theogonia'sına göre Gorgonlar Graiai'nin kız kardeşleriydi. Oceanus'un ötesindeki Hesperides'te geceleri yaşıyorlardı. Hesiodos'tan sonra gelen antik yazarlar Herodotos ve Pausanias, Gorgonların evinin...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Medusa "Queen." The most famous of the Gorgons. Medusa, who alone of her sisters was mortal, was, according to some legends, at first a beautiful maiden, but her hair was changed into serpents by Athena, in consequence of her having become by Poseidon the mother of Chrysaor and Pegasus, in one of Athena...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Medusa Gorgolardan biri, Perseus kafasını kesince akan kanından Pegasos'la Khrysaor doğar.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Medusa Medusa was one of three sisters born to Phorcys and Ceto known as the Gorgons. According to Hesiod's Theogony, the Gorgons were the sisters of the Graiai and lived in the utmost place towards the night by the Hesperides beyond Oceanus. Later authors such as Herodotus and Pausanias place the Gorgo...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

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Ampelos Adı üzüm kütüğü anlamına gelen Ampelos bir satyr'le bir nympha'dan doğmadır. Tanrı Dionysos bu güzel delikanlıya gönül verip bir karaağaç dalından salkım salkım sarkan asmayı ona armağan etmiştir. Ampelos ağaca tırmanıp bir salkım üzüm koparacakken düşmüş ve ölmüştür. Ardından Dionysos sevgilisin...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Ampelos Ampelos was a handome, young Thrakian Satyros (Satyr) loved by the god Dionysos. There were two accounts of his death. In one he was slain by a wild bull and transformed by the grieving god into the first grapevine. In the other Ampelos fell from an elm tree while picking grapes and was set among...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Ampelos Added by archaeologs | Mythology

Sphinx Sfenks, genellikle bir aslanın gövdesini bir insanın başı ile birleştiren, kanatlı bir yaratıktır. Mısır, Antik Yakın Doğu ve Yunanistan'ın sanat ve mitlerinde sıkça kullanılan hayali bir varlıktır. İlk sfenksler, Mısır ve Mezopotamya ikonografisinde, M.Ö. 3. binyılın başlarında koruyucu figürler...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

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