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Facts
Overview
What Defines This GroupingBeings that a hero or a god must overcome. In their own traditions several of these are cosmic adversaries of the created order rather than beasts, and their defeat is an act of creation or of its maintenance rather than an adventure; the English heading flattens that. 2 Learn More
The Monsters
This group gathers monsters, the fearsome beings of myth that heroes must confront: creatures of chaos, guardians of thresholds and embodiments of the wild and dangerous. They are figures of narrative rather than the catalogued mythical creatures elsewhere in the atlas.
The browser will find the monstrous figures the atlas classes here. The entries describe each within the legends that give it meaning.
Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005Entries Dragons; combat mythView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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