2007-10-02 07:40:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
This sounds like Minoan as in Crete -
Minoan civilisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Minoan culture flourished from approximately 2700 to 1450 BC; .... There are signs of earthquake damage at many Minoan sites and clear signs of both ...
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_Civilization
Minoan Palace What remains of Minoan culture, is a half understood mystery. The language of the Minoans, known as 'Linear A', has never been ... /sites/Europe/knossos.html.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/pre-greece/minoan/minoan.html
Minoan Culture of GreeceIan Swindale's website on the Minoan culture on Crete includes site descriptions of many important palaces, settlements, tombs and village sites, ...
http://www.archaeology.about.com/od/minoan/Minoan_Greece.htm
In Minoan culture they took part in a form of bull fighting which can still be seen in Southern France [Camerae] today. The creature who guarded the treasure of Knossos was probably a bull 'Minotaur'
2007-10-02 07:47:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the ancient chinese, there was the guardian lions, also called Fu Lions or Foo Dogs, and called Shi in Chinese, are powerful mythic protectors that have traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, temples, emperors' tombs, government offices, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), until the end of the empire in 1911.
Fucanglong the Dragon of Hidden Treasure (Chinese underworld dragons that guards buried treasures).
2007-10-02 08:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by Rachelle_of_Shangri_La 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I'm a fan of Fafnir, the giant who turned himself into a dragon to guard a great hoard of gold, from the Norse Volsung Saga. The treasure was originally procured from the dwarf Andvari by Loki, to pay a ransom to the family of Ottr, who had been killed by Loki as Loki journeyed with his fellow gods Odin and Hoenir.
Fafnir and Regin, brothers of the slain Ottr, killed their father so they could have the treasure for themselves. Fafnir took the hoard of gold for himself, turning himself into a dragon so he could guard it. Regin, wanting to get the treasure for himself, took into his care a youth named Sigurd, whom he goads into killing his brother, the dragon Fafnir. Sigurd inadvertently tastes the blood of the slain dragon and is suddenly able to understand the speech of birds; some nuthatches tell him that Regin is planning to kill him and take the treasure for himself, so Sigurd slays Regin as well, and so gains the huge hoard of gold.
I don't think I'm too far off when I surmise that Fafnir went a long way towards inspiring Tolkien's dragon Smaug from his story "The Hobbit".
2007-10-02 21:33:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In India it usually is the Sheshnag (king cobra). In other places it is the Cerberus.
2007-10-02 07:44:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
kanubai guardian of the chalice of despair
2007-10-02 08:34:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd need to be more specific, like what mythos or country and time period.
2007-10-02 07:43:46 · answer #6 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dragons and Griffins come to mind...
2007-10-02 10:34:09 · answer #7 · answered by nwyvre 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should be a bit more specific don't you think?
2007-10-02 10:23:40 · answer #8 · answered by rogue 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋