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<blockquote data-quote="TurlinBlackwind" data-source="post: 2590618" data-attributes="member: 17319"><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"> I love mythology, though I'm not aswell studied as some.</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen">The D&D Sphinx is an interesting one becuase it's closer to the Greek Sphinx from Eodipus Rex than the Egyptian guardian beast.</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen">I also remember the Chimera being mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh as an asian beast composed of parts of many more than the four or five animals/monsters the modern cousin is made of.</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen">It's amazing how far and wide myths of dragons are. there's atleast one on every inhabited continent. (scientists on antarctica don't count as inhabitants yet <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen">If memory serves right... the earliest mention of an ogre comes from African oral stories. I may be wrong but I remember reading something about it.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TurlinBlackwind, post: 2590618, member: 17319"] [COLOR=DarkGreen] I love mythology, though I'm not aswell studied as some. The D&D Sphinx is an interesting one becuase it's closer to the Greek Sphinx from Eodipus Rex than the Egyptian guardian beast. I also remember the Chimera being mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh as an asian beast composed of parts of many more than the four or five animals/monsters the modern cousin is made of. It's amazing how far and wide myths of dragons are. there's atleast one on every inhabited continent. (scientists on antarctica don't count as inhabitants yet ;) ) If memory serves right... the earliest mention of an ogre comes from African oral stories. I may be wrong but I remember reading something about it.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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