Kelvin Shadewing's Pixels

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Now, I don't know a griffin from a sphinx so in the grand scheme of fantasy creatures I guess you could say I don't know my ass from my elbow.

Just to add some more knowledge in this thread (and keep things interesting), a Griffin is a lion with eagle wings and head. A Sphinx is a lion with the head of a woman. The male version of the Sphinx is called Manticore and has a head of a man with thousand teeth and a scorpion's tail.

Additionally a Hippogriff is an offspring of a male griffin and a female horse. Back in the day when people still believed in these mythical creatures, people said that griffins and horses were like, cat and dog: natural enemies, and thus a Hippogriff is especially rare. An old saying, 'to mate griffins with horses' exists to indicate impossibility (a more modern version of this saying would be 'when pigs fly').

Another mythical creature related to lions exist, the classical greek Chimaera was Echidna (one of Medusa's sisters) and Typhus' (a Titan) offspring and was a lion with a goat head and a dragon head annexed on the sides, with wings and scaly dragon tail.

Side note: Hippo means 'horse' in greek, which is also the root for Hippopotamus 'river horse'.