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Griffin

Beings · Myth & story

A mixed eagle-lion guardian of treasure and tombs in Mediterranean art. Not a synonym for every hybrid monster.

Also known as gryphon

Hellenic religion

  • Griffin appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus reports northern gold-guarding griffins in Greek ethnographic speech. A Hellenic traveler’s monster report, not a Mesopotamian guardian and not every hybrid.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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