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Oct. 11th, 2010 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vivienI did not know that Manticores came from Persian mythology! This monster has quite the pedigree.
From Wikipedia:
The manticore myth was of Persian origin, where its name was "man-eater" (from early Middle Persian مارتیا martya "man" (as in human) and خوار xwar- "to eat"). The English term "manticore" was borrowed from Latin mantichora, itself borrowed from Greek μαντιχωρας—an erroneous pronunciation of the original Persian name. It passed into European folklore first through a remark by Ctesias, a Greek physician at the Persian court of King Artaxerxes II in the fourth century BC, in his notes on India ("Indika"), which circulated among Greek writers on natural history but have not survived.
Here is a picture from a medieval manuscript: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/3163795436 - check out the leg dangling from the mouth. Nice and gruesome, Monk of Olde.
From the redundantly named Monsters.Monstrous site:
Physically, the manticore was know as having the body of a red lion, the face and ears of a human and a tail ending in a sting like that of a scorpion. The mouth contains three rows of teeth and poisoned spines along the tail could be shot, like arrows in any direction.
In other words, pointy side up. All the time.
From Wikipedia:
The manticore myth was of Persian origin, where its name was "man-eater" (from early Middle Persian مارتیا martya "man" (as in human) and خوار xwar- "to eat"). The English term "manticore" was borrowed from Latin mantichora, itself borrowed from Greek μαντιχωρας—an erroneous pronunciation of the original Persian name. It passed into European folklore first through a remark by Ctesias, a Greek physician at the Persian court of King Artaxerxes II in the fourth century BC, in his notes on India ("Indika"), which circulated among Greek writers on natural history but have not survived.
Here is a picture from a medieval manuscript: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/3163795436 - check out the leg dangling from the mouth. Nice and gruesome, Monk of Olde.
From the redundantly named Monsters.Monstrous site:
Physically, the manticore was know as having the body of a red lion, the face and ears of a human and a tail ending in a sting like that of a scorpion. The mouth contains three rows of teeth and poisoned spines along the tail could be shot, like arrows in any direction.
In other words, pointy side up. All the time.