Talk:Lamia (mythology)
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I could swear I'd heard of lamia who were lions with human head/breasts, covered in scales, and occasionally bearing dragon wings. Where did that come from? Mytho-biology seems to be frought with these mystery monsters named after better-known unrelated things.
- Another unsourced, uncharacteristic description: "Some stories also describe the Lamia as a demon with the upper torso of a woman, the lower front half of the body that of a lion, and the back half of a black goat, similar in appearance to Centaurs." Can any editors identify this description and return it to the article? --Wetman 06:46, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
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- Found it - http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/lamia.htm
I saw once in a Spanish textbook what seemed to be four pictures of creatures in some form of South/Central Native American mythology. One of them was labeled, "Lamia" and had a picture of what looked like a hybrid between a snake and a duck. --70.114.239.33 22:24, 26 March 2006 (UTC) (Please forgive me if in any way this is the wrong format; I've never used this before.
- Someone stripped away informative, nuanced, carefully assembled, sourced material from this article. Edit to improve text, not streamline it to suit your attention span, please. --Wetman 06:45, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
So why were the many references to Lamia in popular culture just deleted...? --Klepas 03:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- Woot! Thanks to the chaps who added the Lamia in popular culture section again. :) Klepas 10:03, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Also, what about adding the Lahmians from Vampire Counts in Warhammer Fantasy to the popular culture references? See Vampire_Counts#Bloodlines.
- Removed the reference to Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, as it was wrong. Pisha is actually a Nagaraja, not a Lamia.
- Lamia appears in Prodigal Son by Iron Maiden on the Killers album.
[edit] Incomprehesible trivia
Can someone either rewrite the material about "Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles" and "Flyff" coherently, with some context, or remove it? As it is, it is probably not comprehensible to one reader in twenty. (e.g. "she will continue to heal her husband just before he is KO'd, and debuff the player(s) with her Slow spells.") - Jmabel | Talk 01:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
