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What is the best animal in mythology?

by YPB Team1 vote

The Nemean Lion, the White Tiger of the west, dragons, sphinxes and krakens. Rank the beasts that human beings invented and then could not stop retelling.

  1. Unicorn — ranked #11
    Unicorn
    A single horn, and a very long career in heraldry.
    1000pts
    DI
  2. Pegasus — ranked #22
    Pegasus
    The winged horse of Greek myth.
    679pts
  3. Kraken — ranked #33
    Kraken
    The sea monster Nordic sailors reported and nobody disproved.
    678pts
  4. Thunderbird — ranked #44
    Thunderbird
    The storm-bringing bird of North American traditions.
    555pts
  5. Dragon — ranked #55
    Dragon
    The one mythical animal nearly every culture invented separately.
    555pts
  6. Minotaur — ranked #66
    Minotaur
    Bull-headed, and the reason the labyrinth exists.
    555pts
  7. White Tiger — ranked #77
    White Tiger
    Bai Hu, guardian of the west in Chinese cosmology.
    0pts
  8. Sphinx — ranked #88
    Sphinx
    Lion's body, human face, and a riddle.
    0pts
  9. Nemean Lion — ranked #99
    Nemean Lion
    The lion Heracles had to strangle because no weapon could pierce its hide.
    0pts
  10. Cerberus — ranked #1010
    Cerberus
    Three heads guarding the gate of the underworld.
    0pts
  11. Fenrir — ranked #1111
    Fenrir
    The wolf Norse myth says will kill Odin.
    0pts
  12. Chimera — ranked #1212
    Chimera
    Lion, goat and serpent in one animal.
    0pts

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Comments

Greece gave one cat a monster to be strangled, China gave another a compass point, and the invented creatures outrank both: https://youpick.best/articles/lion-vs-tiger-ranked https://youpick.best/articles/the-wolf-ranked-many-ways

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