#Calygreyhound

[maxpande]

I finally fulled updated my fursona!

They're also just, me.

Ares is also the creation god of my oc universe which is awesome.

Context: A calygreyhound is a heraldry monster invented by the De Vere house of Oxford. It is a fusion of a wildcat's head, a dear's body and antlers, a lion's tail, an eagle's talons, and either lion or oxen hind legs. And I've decided to treat it as my fursona because it's fun and cool.

The accessory panels and shackle are references to older sonas of mine that weren't furries but still significant points.

[octahedral-chaos]

Today I learnt that the Calygreyhound is a thing.

No it is not a dog, it is a medieval heraldic creature who had the head of a wildcat, torso of a deer or antelope, forelegs and occasionally wings of an eagle, antlers or horns, hooves, hind legs of a lion or ox and a tufted tail.

I genuinely want to doodle this thing-

[gloomarchive]

gonna start posting sketches/slightly unfinished works. more flash/wanna dos. c week is calygreyhound and camahueto.

[modpoppy]

me if i was a lil fucker like bill

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Small

It was really a beautiful beast, with great antlers and a pelt patterned like a leopard in shades of grey and gold. This one’s head was less like a cat and more like a dragon, longer, and with bared fangs. They also had wings, small, feathered ones raised in a defensive posture.

Charles was not particularly impressed. Sure, they were a pretty one, but he had a job to do.

“Peace, Heraldic One. We need not fight today.”

The hound cocked their head at Charles, fanged mouth opening in surprise.

“Thou dost speak, human? Clever one, who knows the history too. But if thou wishes to stop me, we shall fight. For this land was mine, and it was my favoured one’s land, but thine people have taken it. I must reclaim it.”

Charles sighed. “Calygreyhound, I have no wish to come to blows. But if thou dost not yield, I shall fight.”

The beast grinned. “Then we shall fight, clever one.”

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[gracebethartacc]

1. Saw the MLP oc named "Esse" and I want to know more about them

2. Will their be a timeskip in your MLP rewrite since since the child lf Ember and Sunburst, Ocellus is an teen by the time Twi opens the school of friendship?

1: Esse is the god of creation! (BUT not life! Big difference here, similar to cosmos isn’t god of death she’s god of destruction) Its the counterpart to cosmos :3 and maybe I might tie it into being the tree of harmony spirit or filling a similar role, basically just the rws equivalent of a more traditional “god” figure think kinda like how Pokemon has arceus mlp rw has esse. It’s a calygreyhound (a mythological creature that’s usually described as having the head of a wildcat/lynx, antelope body , bird legs and hooves, lion tail, and sometimes horns/antlers or wings but that depends on the depiction) I took more from the lynx with antlers/wings side of it, if I draw a full body I might toy with the claws and hooves combo !

2: (I think you mixed up the names there lol I’ve not done anything s ember (yet?)) but yes! The school will be a small timeskip! Not in the Future future like from the last episode, but more like a middle ground between that and say s7, I wanna use the school to let twilight prepare for princess duties (being away from her friends/doing things on her own + deal with students (subjects) + paperwork)

I’ve actually talked about both of these topics in previous posts! Here and here :3

I love you send this ask right as I’m literally drawing school related art rn (which will be posted soon)

[pupsmailbox]

I’m kinda new to this because I only recently came to terms with being otherkin (I believe that’s the proper term?). I don’t exactly know what it is, it’s not really an existing animal and I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve tried imagining what it would look like, but the only way I can describe it is a being with both feline and cervidae features. Anyways, I don’t wanna fill the ask with the entire description 😅.

1. Do you have any names based on nature, entities/deities, or forests? Could also be cervidae and feline related if it makes it any easier.

2. Based on my tiny description, do you have any idea of something that could fit that description? (Also, would you want me to fully describe it how I can?)

That’s all for now, sorry for the long read! 😞

here , here , here and here !!

Otherkin is identifying as anything nonhuman, and therian is identifying as any animal ( it's under the otherkin/alterhuman umbrella ) and it includes mythic animals as well if that helps at all !! Species-wise- I searched a bit and there's such a thing as a calygreyhound and just a cat deer hybrid in general I guess ?? I'm not sure I'm sorry !!

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Mythic Creatures by Culture & Region

Part 3: Europe (Basque, Rome, Viking, Great Britain)

This list documents mythological and folkloric creatures of Ancient Europe, the British Isles and Scandinavia as found on Wikipedia.

European creatures from Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Greece etc. will be listed in a separate post. The same goes for Biblical creatures or creatures from Abrahamic religions and Goetia literature. The full list of creatures is here.

Basque

Basque people live in what is today northern Spain. Their language is the only surviving language in Europe that isn't part of the Indo-European family tree, likely because the Basques live in secluded mountain areas. I have listed some deities alongside creatures, but this is a full list of Wikipedia's Basque creatures, not a full list of Wikipedia's gods/goddesses/deities for Basque culture.

Aatxe; Aide air goddess; Akerbeltz; Amalur; Basajaun; Eate (Basque god); Egoi; Eki (Basque goddess); Fountain Women; Gaizkiñ; Gaueko; Herensuge; Ilargi; Inguma; Iratxo ; Iratxoak; Jentil; Lamignak; Mairu; Minairó also Catalan; Odei; Olentzero; Orko; San Martin Txiki; Tartalo

Proto-Indo-European

Proto-Indo-European (or PIE) is the reconstructed ancestor to all major European languages, excluding Basque and languages from later diasporas.

Dʰéǵʰōm; Proto-Indo-European Myth; Double-headed eagle maybe not PIE but Bronze Age

Roman

Abarimon (Pliny the Elder, whose source is supposedly a land surveyor of Alexander the Great); Aborigines_Roman myth\; Achlis (Pliny the Elder); Caligo, see Achlys; Aegipan (Pliny the Elder locates them in Libya); Albruna Germanic seeress attested by Tacitus; Amazons, Amazons (List); Anguiped also Greek and Iranian.; Antichthones; Astomi Pliny the Elder; Aura; Bonnacon Pliny the Elder; Caca; Caeneus; Caladrius; Calingae Pliny the Elder; Camilla; Catoblepas Pliny the Elder; Cimbrian seeresses mentioned by Strabo; Crocotta Strabo and Pliny the Elder; Cupid; Di Penates; Echeneis Pliny the Elder; Ethiopian pegasus Pliny the Elder; Faun, Faunus ; Faunae, Fauni; Faustulus; Forest Bull Pliny the Elder; Fraus; Genius; Genius loci; Gorgades; Hellusians Tacitus claims they live beyond the Finns; Hircocervus; Hooded Spirits; Hydrus Pliny the Elder; Ichneumon Pliny the Elder; Ichthyophagoi; Indus worm; Iphis; Kings of Alba Longa; Lampedo Amazon; Lares; Lares Familiares; Lemures; Mandi; Manes; Manticore; Monoceros Pliny the Elder; Monopod; Odontotyrannus; Orcus; Pandi; Phoenix; Phthisis; Pyrausta Pliny the Elder; Querquetulanae; Remora; Salamander; Seps; Silvanus; Strix; Syrbotae Pliny the Elder; Tarand; Theow Pliny the Elder; Unicorn; Wild Man, Wild Woman ; Wild Men, Wild Women; Yale

Etruscan

Charun; Orcus; Tuchulcha; Vanth; Vegoia

Britain

Apple Tree Man; Ascapart giant from chivalric romance dating to 1300s; Asrai Cheshire and Shropshire; Barghest north England; Beast of Dean; Beithir; Billy Blind England and Scottish Lowlands; Black Annis; Black Dog; Black Shuck; Bluecap; Blunderbore; Bogeyman; Boggart; Bogle Northumbrian; Brag Northumbrian; British Wild Cats; Brown Man of the Muirs anglo-scottish border; Brownie ; Brownies; Bucca Cornish; Bugbear; Burryman; Butter Sprite; Calygreyhound; Cat-sìth; Cauld Lad of Hylton; Inspiration/Directories/Bestiary (Myth and Legend)/A-Z/Changeling|Changeling; Christchurch Dragon; Cirein-cròin; Cock Lane Ghost; Cockatrice (explicitly British); Cofgod; Colbrand (giant); Colt pixie; Cormoran (giant); Dando's Dogs; Drummer of Tedworth; Dun Cow; Dunnie Northumbrian; Elder Mother; English Fairies; Ettin; Fairy story (Northumbria); Fetch; Finfolk Orkney; Girt Dog of Ennerdale; Goram and Vincent (giants); Grendel; Grendel's Mother; Grimalkin; Grindylow; Gytrash; Habetrot (Northumbrian?? border counties between England and Scottish Lowlands); Hob; Hobbididance; Hobgoblin ; Hobgoblins; Imp; Jack and the Beanstalk; Jack Frost; Jack in the Green; Jack o' Legs; Jack o' the bowl; Jack the Giant Killer; Jack-In-Irons; Joan-in-the-Wad; Kilmoulis Anglo-Scottish border; Knocker; Knucker; Korred; Krabat; Lambton Worm; Lantern Man; Lazy Laurence; Lubberfiend; Martlet; Mary Lakeland (accused witch); Mermaid of Zennor; Morgan le Fay; Morgawr; Nanny Rutt; Nelly Longarms; Nuckelavee Orkney; Nuggle Shetland; Pantheon_the_creature; Peg Powler; Penhill Giant; Pictish Beast Picts; Pillywiggin; Pixie; Portunes; Púca; Puck; Puck_Shakespeare; Queen of Elphame (Northumbrian?? border counties between England and Scottish Lowlands); Redcap English-Scottish border; Screaming skull; Sea Mither Orkney; Sebile; Sheela na Gig; Shug Monkey; Simonside Dwarfs; Sockburn Worm; Spriggan ; Spriggans; Sprite ; Sprites; Stoor worm; Sweet William's Ghost; Tangie Orkney and Shetland; The Black Dog of Newgate; The Elder Mother also Scandinavian; The Hedley Kow Northumberland; The King of the Cats; The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh Northumbrian; The Queen of Elfan's Nourice; Thunderdell Cornish; Tiddalik; Tom Hickathrift; Tooth Fairy; Tree Elves; Trow; Unicorn; Wight; Wild Man, Wild Woman ; Wild Men, Wild Women; William of Lindholme; Worm of Linton; Wyvern; Yallery Brown

Isle of Man

Adene, elves?; Arkan sonney "lucky piggy"; Ben-Varrey see "Mermaid"; Buggane; Cailleach; Fenodyree; Glashan; Glashtyn; Jimmy Squarefoot; Moddey Dhoo; Mooinjer Veggey; Sleigh Beggey; Tree Elves; Water Bull

Irish

Abarta either Tuatha or Fomorian (depends on account); Abcán the poet and musician of the Tuatha, a dwarf (in stature?); Abhartach; Aes Sidhe; Aibell, an elf queen (banshee, ruler of a fairy mound); Aillen, the "burner" a monstrous Tuatha; Aos Sí; Badb; Balor; Bánánach; Banshee; Baobhan Sith; Biróg a lheannan sidhe; Bodach also Scottish; Bran and Sceólang; Brendan the Navigator; Cailleach; Carman; Cas Corach; Cat-sìth also Scottish; Cathbad; Cethlenn; Cichol Gricenchos; Clíodhna; Clurican; Conand; Crom Cruach; Cù-sìth; Dobhar-chú; Donn Cúailnge; Dullahan; Each-uisge; Echtra; Elatha; Ellén Trechend; Enbarr; Ethniu; Failinis; Fear Doirich; Fear gorta; Finvarra; Fionn mac Cumhaill; Fionnuala; Fir Bolg; Fir Darrig; Fomorian; Gancanagh; Garb mac Stairn; Glas Gaibhnenn; Immram; Irish Mythic Creatures; Iubdan; Joint-eater; Kelpie; Leprechaun; Les Lavandières; Lhiannan-Sidhe; Liban; Inspiration/Directories/Bestiary (Myth and Legend)/A-Z/Manannán mac Lir|Manannán mac Lir; Medb (Queen Maeve); Merrow ; Merrows; Mongfind; Muckie; Mug Ruith; Nel; Niamh; Oilliphéist; Onchú; Pillywiggin; Púca; Sadhbh; Salmon of Knowledge; Scáthach; Selkie; Sengann; Seonaidh; Sheela na Gig; Sidhe; Sìth also Scottish; Sluagh also Scottish; Sovereignty goddess; Sreng; Swan Maiden; Tethra; The Morrígan; The Voyage of Bran; The Voyage of Máel Dúin; The Voyage of the Uí Chorra; Tlachtga; Tuatha dé Danaan; Werewolf; Werewolves of Ossory; Wild Man, Wild Woman ; Wild Men, Wild Women; Wyvern allegedly Irish; Cymidei Cymeinfoll

Scotland

Am Fear Liath Mòr; Red Cap; Bauchan; Bean-nighe; Beast of Beinn a' Bheithir; Betram de Shotts; Biasd Bheulach; Billy Blind lowlands and England; Blue Men of the Minch; Bodach also Irish; Boobrie west coast Scottish lochs; Broichan wizard of Pictland (north Scotland); Brown Man of the Muirs anglo-scottish border; Brownie ; Brownies; Cailleach; Cain bairns; Ceasg; Cù-sìth; Each-uisge; Fachan; Fuath; Ghillie Dhu; Gigelorum; Glaistig; Gormshuil Mhòr na Maighe; Kelpie also Irish; Lavellan; Les Lavandières; Ly Erg; Maggy Moulach; Morag; Muc-sheilch; Nicnevin; Pech; Red Cap; Seelie; Shellycoat; Sìth also Irish; Sithchean Hebrides; Sluagh; Spey-wife; Tam Lin; The Green Man of Knowledge; Water Bull; Water Horse; Wild Haggis; Wirry-cow; Wulver

Welsh

Adar Llwch Gwin; Adar Rhiannon birds from Mabinogi and Welsh Arthurian tales; Aderyn y corff, corpse bird, portent of death; Afanc; Arawn; Bendith y Mamau see Tylwyth Teg; Blodeuwedd; Brenin Llwyd; Bres Tuatha; Buwch Frech; Bwciod; Cath Palug; Ceffyl Dŵr; Coblynau; Cŵn Annwn; Cyhyraeth; Cymidei Cymeinfoll; Cythraul; Dormarch; Gwagged Annwn or Gwragedd Annwn; Gwrgi Garwlwyd; Gwyllgi; Gwyllion; Gwyn ap Nudd; Henwen; Idris Gawr; Jack o' Kent; Les Lavandières; Llamhigyn Y Dwr; Maelor Gawr; March Malaen; Mari Lwyd; Morgen; Sleigh Beggey also Manx; Swan Maiden; Twrch Trwyth; Tylwyth Teg; Welsh Dragon; Welsh Giant; White dragon; Wild Hunt; Wyvern; Y Ladi Wen; Ysbaddaden; Ysgithyrwyn

Scandinavian (Viking, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland)

Æsir; Æsir–Vanir War; Alberich in Thidrekssaga written in 1250 in Norway, possibly based on a Plattdeutsch original (also appears in German Nibelungenlied from 1200 in Passau, Bavaria and Ortnit from 1230s Germany, Strassburg; Álfablót sacrifice to elves; Alvaldi jotun; Askafroa German "Eschenfrau"; Bergsrå; Berserker; Bøyg; Brokkr dwarf; Brunnmigi; Bysen; Church grim; Dagr; Death; Deildegast; Di sma undar jordi; Disir; Dökkálfar; Draugr; Dvalinn; Dwarf ; Dwarfs, Dwarves; Eikþyrnir; Einherjar; Elder Mother; Elli; Endill jotun; Fenrir; Fin; Fjölvar; Fjörgyn and Fjörgynn; Fossegrim; Fylgiar; Gangr; Garmr; Gjenganger; Glenr; Gríðr; Grýla and Leppalúði; Gulon; Hábrók; Hafgufa; Half-elf; Hamingja; Hati Hróðvitnisson; Helhest; Hervör alvitr; Hildr; Hlaðguðr svanhvít; Hljod; Hlökk; Hræsvelgr; Hrímgerðr; Hrímgrímnir; Hroðr; Hrymr; Hulder; Huldufólk; Humli; Hyrrokkin; Iði; Ím (joetunn); Járnsaxa; Jörmungandr; Jötunn; Katie Woodencloak; Kraken; Lagarfljótsormur; Landdisir; Landvættir; Leikn; Ljósálfar; Lyngbakr; Marmennill; Móðguðr; Mögþrasir; Mound Folk; Myling; Nafnaþulur; Níðhöggr; Niß Puck; Nisse; Norns; Norse_Nude_Snake_Witch; Nótt; Nykken; Odin; Púca; Rå; Rådande; Ratatoskr; Sæhrímnir; Selkolla; Selma; Sjörå; Skogsrå; Sköll; Skrat; Skuld (half-elf princess); Skvader; Slattenpatte; Sleipnir; Storsjöodjuret; Sumarr and Vetr; Surtr; Svaðilfari; Svartálfar; Swan Maiden; The Elder Mother also English; The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body; Tilberi; Tooth Fairy; Tree Elves; Troll; Troll Cat; Vættir; Valkyrie; Valravn; Vanir; Vardøger; Veðrfölnir; Viðfinnr; Vittra; Vǫrðr; Vörnir (joetunn); Vosud; Werewolf; Wight; Wild Hunt; Wild Man, Wild Woman ; Wild Men, Wild Women; Worm of Linton; Wurm; Ysätters-Kajsa; Yule cat; Þorbjörg lítilvölva; Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa; Þrívaldi; Þuríðr Sundafyllir

Note: Although most European lore is easily implemented into art and fiction without causing lasting cultural damage, there may be some European cultures (from Basque to Welsh) whose cultures have been subject to cultural suppression. Notify me if there are mistakes or if I need to add disclaimers or revisions concerning these creatures.

[browniefox]

Okay, I have a sun-themed character who is caught in a cycle of reincarnation and usually ends up being the 'villain' each cycle.

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Day twenty three of No One Except @mr-orion Asked November (NoOneExOriAskNov). Happy Turkey Day to the Americans out there, and Happy Normal Thursday to everyone else.

Some Chatter & Melody stuff today. The four most recent Record-Keepers of London Branch, only three of which are guaranteed to still actually exist in the present day.

The sad old man is Thomas ‘Tripwire’ Skinner, a devotee of the Mimic and the Speculation both. He just up and disappeared one day, only ever being spotted in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew later.

The waist coat girl is Alexia ‘Lichen’ Ruby, a devotee of the Monument. She broke half her ribs, a radius, the opposite ulna, and a tooth in a very bad raid-on-a-suspected-cult-hideout-gone-wrong.

The guy with planetary rings is Hudson ‘Voyager’ Calderón, a devotee of the Beyond. He lost an eye, two fingers, four teeth, and a not insignificant portion of the skin on his legs to a very angry group of anti-nuclear-protesters-turned-rabid-victims-of-homemade-magic-nerve-gas. And a flamethrower.

The guy with paws and horns is Ernest ‘Hunting Horn’ Killingsworth, a half-calygreyhound and devotee of the Chatter. He hasn’t had anything completely career-ruining happen to him yet.

[proxylynn]

Man: okay okay. I take it back!! He's the best. Tall, big, and handsome.

Little Lynn: Glad your last words are honest ones. You're still gonna die though. No doctor can reconnect your spinal cord and no magic is going to be wasted on fixing you, sooooo... Bye-bye!

*tosses the man into the calygreyhound pen*

[maxpande]

I know I drew my fursona but after seeing a single, count em 1, art piece of a niche heraldry monster my brain is now latched onto it. Expect some beefy chimeric motherfucker using they/them to appear on your dashboards in the nearsoon.

[dragoncreator312]

“The Calygreyhound Pokemon”

Kantoian Persian/Tauros/Skarmory/Escavalier/Pyroar/Wyrdeer

Steel/Flying

[parakaryote]

Marriage of the Beasts

[cryptids-of-the-world]

The Calygreyhound is a Chimera-like Heraldic Beast found in medieval mythology. The Calygreyhound is described as a Chimera-like creature with the head of a cat, a lion’s tail,the body of an antelope, the front kegs of an eagle, and the hid legs of a bull though sometimes it is depicted as having the hindquarters of a fish and is said to be very fast. The Calygreyhound is the Heraldic Beast of the De Vere family who were the Earls of Oxford.

Art by: https://www.deviantart.com/ns-wen

[shythalia]

Calygreyhrounds

They say it has the head of a cat but they didn’t specify the type of cat. lol