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I apologise if this has been raised before, but I was jsut looking at the Sasquatch on google and wanted to ask this - what is your favourite mythical creature(s)/ god(s)? . My personal favs are the Wyvern, Kraken and the Sasquatch.

Have a rant!

I apologise if this has been raised before, but I was jsut looking at the Sasquatch on google and wanted to ask this - what is your favourite mythical creature(s)/ god(s)? . My personal favs are the Wyvern, Kraken and the Sasquatch.

Have a rant!

*bursts in*

Did somebody say "Sasquatch"?

I apologise if this has been raised before, but I was jsut looking at the Sasquatch on google and wanted to ask this - what is your favourite mythical creature(s)/ god(s)? . My personal favs are the Wyvern, Kraken and the Sasquatch.

Have a rant!


Compassionate conservatives.

A race of mystical creatures that can make things better with smaller and smaller amounts of money. That promotes freedom and makes everyone act the way they did on Leave it to Beaver. Who couldn't love the idea of such a fanciful beast. Much better than fairies that give gold that turns to dust in the morning and are more likely to exist.

*bursts in*

Did somebody say "Sasquatch"?

Dang. I thought I turned it all political on the very first post. :(

The great old ones. *nods*

Ohhh now it's just got to be the Knucklavee, go on google it, it's fuckin' 'orrible!

Cthulhu o course, who can not love/fear/go insane by him

Jesus!

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Ohhh now it's just got to be the Knucklavee, go on google it, it's fuckin' 'orrible!

From what I remember, this would be a flayed centaur, yes?

From what I remember, this would be a flayed centaur, yes?

Yeah that lives by the sea, and eats children:eek:

Dragons. Hands down.

Smurfs.

Especially the purple ones. Always watching my tail...

DOMO!!!!

or the roman and greek gods. They were cool until they weren't worshipeed anymore and now Mount Olympus is a slum. Poor Zeus does tricks for food

Cthulhu o course, who can not love/fear/go insane by him

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Fools, both of you! If you want to be the first to be devoured by the Great Old Ones, you must worship all of them! Devoting yourself solely to Cthulhu will enrage the others...Ghatanothoa himself will reveal his accursed visage to you, causing your body to become as leather and leave your brain preserved, locked in paralysis, a self-aware mummy...an endless torture until the end of time for failing to acknowledge his power.

So get working on building those several hundred other shrines, for your own sakes. And build one to me while you're at it. And fetch me a sandwich. *nods*

Fools, both of you! If you want to be the first to be devoured by the Great Old Ones, you must worship all of them! Devoting yourself solely to Cthulhu will enrage the others...Ghatanothoa himself will reveal his accursed visage to you, causing your body to become as leather and leave your brain preserved, locked in paralysis, a self-aware mummy...an endless torture until the end of time for failing to acknowledge his power.

So get working on building those several hundred other shrines, for your own sakes. And build one to me while you're at it. And fetch me a sandwich. *nods*

What kind of sandwich o mighty old one?

Cthulhu with the Jersey Devil as a close runner up.

Well, a Roc really tastes good if you cook it on the grill, and then add a barrel of basil, and those drumsticks are enormous...

Er...

You didn't mean to eat? Oh. I'm still partial to the giant birds for some reason.

What kind of sandwich o mighty old one?

Wooly Mammoth. And rocks from Venus.

Dragons. Hands down.

I totally agree.

Dragons, Prometheus, Odin, the sidhe, the Egyptian pantheon.

*bursts in*

Did somebody say "Sasquatch"?
http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/wookie.gif (I know it's Chewbacca. That's as close as it gets!)

http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/wookie.gif (I know it's Chewbacca. That's as close as it gets!)
Heh, just wanted to post a protest, but I see you already got there. :p

Its been 2 pages and no mention of the FSM

http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/other/fsm.jpg

I had a friend who was a Hopi Indian, who told me once of an evil owl, it was possesed by the spirit of a medicine man and when it looked you in the eye it could steal your soul and take it for the night and become human again, well, we were driving out by the lake at the time and the biggest owl I have ever seen landed on the hood of our car and looked right at me, and even though I knew logically his story wasn't true, the timing and everything got the better of me and I freaked out.

The owl had a name but I don't remember it. :(

Oh, and around here people talk about the "little people" (http://www.telliquah.com/cherokee.htm) a lot, I have grown fond of them.

Perhaps no Cherokee legend has been more enduring than the belief in the Yunwi Tsunsdi’, the Little People.. About knee high to an adult, they were well shaped and handsome, with long hair, which reaches the ground. Considered to be wonder workers, like the Nunne’hi, they spent half their time drumming and dancing. Helpful and kind hearted; they were especially helpful to children, and frequently helped adults, unseen at night, at such things as gathering corn. Usually associated with a certain place or community, if they were offended, they would leave the place, never to be seen again!
I thought I saw one when I was a child, but probably not right?:p

Heh, just wanted to post a protest, but I see you already got there. :p
;) *entwaffnendes Lächeln*

There are a lot of fascinating mythological characters in the hindu epics of Ramayana and Mahabharatha. My favorite is Hanuman, who is one of the very few characters to appear in both the epics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman

http://www.hanuman.com/Hanuman.jpg

Keatons
and if anti-environmental nutjobs have their way, live wolfies. Damn bastards. Would rather waste money on ammunition than save some money and put up a fence.

Anubis, Sphinx, Dragon, Ahriman

They're pretty cool.

Satyrs and Pan along with the rest of the Greek Gods. Regardless of what certain propagandists have said, these Gods are not dead nor are the creatures that existed alongside them...they're just ignoring those who don't believe in them.

I had a friend who was a Hopi Indian, who told me once of an evil owl, it was possesed by the spirit of a medicine man and when it looked you in the eye it could steal your soul and take it for the night and become human again, well, we were driving out by the lake at the time and the biggest owl I have ever seen landed on the hood of our car and looked right at me, and even though I knew logically his story wasn't true, the timing and everything got the better of me and I freaked out.

The owl had a name but I don't remember it. :(

Oh, and around here people talk about the "little people" (http://www.telliquah.com/cherokee.htm) a lot, I have grown fond of them.


I thought I saw one when I was a child, but probably not right?:p

Who can say... the stories are widespride - not just on this continent, but all across the world. If there is one idea more universal than even ghosts or gods, it is the idea that there are 'other' people among us.

The area I live in now, is a centre of 'little people' viewing, but these stories really do cover the country... mekumwasuck, nagumwasuck, ekoale, nunne'hi, etc... the stories reach from the top-left corner, to the bottom right.

(I'm doing all this from memory, I think the nagumwasuck were the ones that were so hideously ugly they never allow themselves to be seen, and the ekoale are a kind of 'lycanthrope' that transforms into a whale, or something). This is a topic I researched extensively a few years back. :)

And these stories are not new, either - sure, there are new fairy stories (Sleepy Hollow fits the profile, but the 'creature' it details actually almost perfectly matches a much older story - the "Far Darocha" myth)... but the ancient Hebrews had fairytale folk too (the Sedim, I believe, were similar to the more well known leath broghan or 'leprachaun'), and the 'lilim' closely resemble European myths about 'baby stealing' fair folk.

Leprechauns.[/thread]

http://www.jabberwocky.com/pics/jabberwocky.jpg

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

I like vampires, but not these modern gothy pussies who sit around in stupid period clothing and whine about immortality. Instead, I want to see a return of the annal retentive slavic blood-zombies, who could be distracted by their reign of terror by being given a pile of poppy seeds to count.

Leprechauns.[/thread]

Ah - but which version of the story?

This 'grimm's-fairytale-friendly' version of happy cobblers with secret buckets of gold, magic sticks, and rainbows... or the bloodthirsty, leatherclad brawling drunkards in the earlier version?

I like vampires, but not these modern gothy pussies who sit around in stupid period clothing and whine about immortality. Instead, I want to see a return of the annal retentive slavic blood-zombies, who could be distracted by their reign of terror by being given a pile of poppy seeds to count.

Yahtzee! :D

I apologise if this has been raised before, but I was jsut looking at the Sasquatch on google and wanted to ask this - what is your favourite mythical creature(s)/ god(s)? . My personal favs are the Wyvern, Kraken and the Sasquatch.

Have a rant!

Phoenixes and the Greek gold women.

My favorite god: me of course.
my favorite undiscovered creature:bigfoot.

Phoenix.

Ah - but which version of the story?

This 'grimm's-fairytale-friendly' version of happy cobblers with secret buckets of gold, magic sticks, and rainbows... or the bloodthirsty, leatherclad brawling drunkards in the earlier version?

Bloodthirsty leather clad brawling drunkards, duh. The brother Grimm have clearly never been to Ireland.

Bloodthirsty leather clad brawling drunkards, duh. The brother Grimm have clearly never been to Ireland.

It has to be said, the original versions of the fairytales are almost always more 'interesting' than the homogenised Grimm/Disney crap.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/matthewthirlwell/killer_dog.jpg

Fluffy pwns all! WORSHIP HIM!

Mankind is my favourite mythical creature. Adam, et al.

Fluffy pwns all! WORSHIP HIM!
Fluffy does have a certain casbahesque quality about him.

Fluffy does have a certain casbahesque quality about him.

Yes he rocks!;)

I kind of like the 'combo' monsters. I think because I can almost seeing how those things came about. A couple of soldiers or something are sitting around drunk and one's all, "Fought this dude, guy was strong as a bull. I'm tellin' ya." And the other guy goes, "Oh yeah? I fought a guy who was Half bull-the half with the horns on it."

"Yeah? I fought eagl-bear. A bear. Eagle. Eaglebear...thing..."

I also kind of like Balrog because he's kind of over kill. His big, he's on fire, he's got wings that don't keep him from falling to his death, apparently...and then a big flaming sword and a whip. I like to think here that Tolkien had painted himself into a corner. "After that rock troll thing and all that's going on, how am I going to make this thing properly scary? What if he's on fire? And so is his sword-oh, and his whip. Oh yeah, that's the stuff. I'm a genius!"

Cthulhu with the Jersey Devil as a close runner up.
The one's that people still think exist are pretty cool as well, so I like the Jersey Devil and I live (if the guy at the bigfoot museum down the street is to be believed) in bigfoot territory, so I have a soft spot for the big hairy guy. And the Loch Ness Monster, but I have closer reason to like that one but I'm not going to go into it because I don't want to win Nazz's geek thread...

Jesus!

now how did i know this was going to be posted within the first page....

oh yeah, i remembered this is NSG

King Edward from Maiden.

*curses under breath, for he doesn't have the new album*

Youppi.

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/949/youppitruexi9.jpg
Youppi in his natural habitat.

Dragons. Hands down.

"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with Ketchup."
-Unknown.

Mythical Creatures/Gods...

First Gods/Goddesses

Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena...


from Forgotten Realms...
Sune, Selune and Mystra



as for Mythical Creatures... well one must first define creatures...

but for now,
Dragons
Griffins (and not because of the Harry Potter stuff...)
Elves
Dryads
Naiads
Drow

Ah - but which version of the story?

This 'grimm's-fairytale-friendly' version of happy cobblers with secret buckets of gold, magic sticks, and rainbows... or the bloodthirsty, leatherclad brawling drunkards in the earlier version?

I like the version in the "Leprechaun"-movies :) Now thats a mythical monster you don't want to meet.

Go satyrs ! :p

Go satyrs ! :p

Satyrs don't like....dieing....






Aaaahhhh, that's right-no one played that game but me....No Gladius II for CToaN...

Harpies, sirens, mermaids, all that fun stuff :p

Jesus!

Post #8. That's gotta be a record.

Bill S. Preston Esq. and "Ted" Theodore Logan.

A celibate priest.

an honest politician.

Actually, I just had another skippet of wiki. Check out "Mephisto". Thats an evil barstard - could go well with chips but i'm not entirely sure.

I like vampires, but not these modern gothy pussies who sit around in stupid period clothing and whine about immortality.
Well, I like those. And the Warhammer-style Old Ones with their Great Plan. And their favoured servants, the Slann.

Oh and Dragons, of course, provided that they are Mighty and Wise, Immortal and Magical:cool: . If they are nothing more than really big flying lizards with really bad breath, then they are no fun at all.

Bill S. Preston Esq. and "Ted" Theodore Logan.

The have nothing on "Juliet" Jake Blues and Elwood J Blues.

The have nothing on "Juliet" Jake Blues and Elwood J Blues.

"Joliet", surely?

"Joliet", surely?

Yeah that one.

*Smacks anybody who put down Cthulhu*

There is absolutly nothing mythological about Cthulhu :mp5:

Now as for my favorite mythological creature I would have to go with Nekomata. I would have said Nekomimi, but give me a few years of genetic research and I'll change all that.

Well, I like those. And the Warhammer-style Old Ones with their Great Plan. And their favoured servants, the Slann.
They ain't got nothing on obssessive compulsive, walking sacks of blood animated by evil spirits who can be identified by their perpetual boners.
I think, at this point, that I'm really mixing mythologies, but you get the gist. Old School vampires pwn.

DOMO!!!!

or the roman and greek gods. They were cool until they weren't worshipeed anymore and now Mount Olympus is a slum. Poor Zeus does tricks for food
I am surprised Zeus doesn't play football for Brazil...