This page groups mythical creatures by the wider artistic and religious tradition that pictures them. Wikipedia notes that "in medieval art, animals, both real and mythical, played important roles." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every creature from one cultural tradition together.
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What Defines This GroupingSupernatural dogs, collected by form. Dogs guard thresholds and the roads of the dead in several unrelated traditions, and the group holds them together by that shape rather than by any shared belief. 2 Learn More
The mythical hounds
This small group gathers mythical hounds, the supernatural dogs of legend, which in many traditions guard thresholds and the paths of the dead, or run as spectral hunters through folklore.
The browser will find the hound figures the atlas classes here. The entries describe each creature's form and mythological role.
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and Local Legends
Stith Thompson, Indiana University Press, 1958B0-B99, Mythical Animals
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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