List of reptilian humanoids

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sapient dinosaur
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conspiracy theories
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Mythology

  • Adi Shesha  : lit, The first of all the snakes, mount of Hindu God Vishnu; descended to Earth in human form as Lakshmana and Balarama.
  • Aquilon to the Romans): the Greek god of the cold north wind, described by Pausanias as a winged man, sometimes with serpents instead of feet.[1]
  • King of Athens was half man, half snake
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  • Chaac: the Maya civilization rain god, depicted in iconography with a human body showing reptilian or amphibian scales, and with a non-human head evincing fangs and a long, pendulous nose.
  • Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology
    sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids.
  • Some
    djinn in Islamic mythology
    are described as alternating between human and serpentine forms.
  • Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake.
  • Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology
    .
  • Glycon: a snake god who had the head of a man.
  • The
    Gorgons
    : Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair.
  • The
    Lamiai
    : female phantoms from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half-serpent.
  • Nāga (Devanagari: नाग): half-human half-snake beings from Hindu mythology[2] said to live underground and interact with human beings on the surface.
  • Nüwa: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology.
  • thunder god
    , depicted with a human head and a dragon's body.
  • Serpent: an entity from the Genesis creation narrative occasionally depicted with legs, and sometimes identified with Satan, though its representations have been both male and female.[3]
  • Sobek: Ancient Egyptian crocodile-headed god.
  • Suppon No Yurei: A turtle-headed human ghost from Japanese mythology and folklore.
  • Tlaloc
    : Aztec god depicted as a man with snake fangs.
  • Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, had a hundred snake-heads in Hesiod,[4] or else was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
  • Xian: immortal beings in Taoism who were sometimes depicted as humanoids with reptile and human features in the Han Dynasty[5]
  • Wadjet pre-dynastic snake goddess of Lower Egypt - sometimes depicted as half snake, half woman.
  • Zahhak, a figure from Zoroastrian mythology who, in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, grows a serpent on either shoulder.

Folklore

Fringe theories

Scientific speculation

Fiction

A wide range of fictional works depict reptilian humanoids.

Literature

Television

Draconian
mask, on display at the National Space Centre

Doctor Who

Star Trek

Ninjago

Other

Comics

Marvel

DC

Other

Film

Games

Roleplaying and strategy games

Dungeons & Dragons
  • Kobolds
  • Lizardfolk
  • Saurial
  • Troglodytes
  • Yuan-ti

Platform and fighting games

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-108-04725-8
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  2. ISBN 0-304-70739-2
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  3. ISBN 978-0-8042-3104-6
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  4. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 823–835.
  5. Ars Orientalis
    . 41: 73, 79.
  6. ISBN 9781603843751
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  7. S2CID 143047194
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  8. Alternet
    . Retrieved 2010-09-01.
  9. ^ Russell, D. A.; Séguin, R. (1982). "Reconstruction of the small Cretaceous theropod Stenonychosaurus inequalis and a hypothetical dinosauroid". Syllogeus. 37: 1–43.
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