Reptilian humanoids appear in folklore, science fiction, fantasy, and conspiracy theories.
Mythology
- Adi Shesha : lit, The first of all the snakes, mount of Hindu God Vishnu; descended to Earth in human form as Lakshmana and Balarama.
- Boreas (Aquilon to the Romans): the Greek god of the cold north wind, described by Pausanias as a winged man, sometimes with serpents instead of feet.
- Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake.
- Chaac: the Maya civilization rain god, depicted in iconography with a human body showing reptilian or amphibian scales, and with a non-human head evincing fangs and a long, pendulous nose.
- Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids.
- Some djinn in Islamic mythology are described as alternating between human and serpentine forms.
- Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake.
- Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology.
- Glycon: a Roman snake god who had the head of a man.
- The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair.
- The Lamiai: female phantoms from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half-serpent.
- NÃÂga (Devanagari: à ¤¨à ¤¾à ¤Â): half-human half-snake beings from Hindu mythology said to live underground and interact with human beings on the surface.
- Nüwa: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology.
- Shenlong: a Chinese dragon thunder god, depicted with a human head and a dragon's body.
- Serpent: an entity from the Genesis creation narrative occasionally depicted with legs, and sometimes identified with Satan, though its representations have been both male and female.
- Sobek: Ancient Egyptian crocodile-headed god.
- Suppon No Yurei: A turtle-headed human ghost from Japanese mythology and folklore.
- Tlaloc: Aztec god depicted as a man with snake fangs.
- Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, had a hundred snake-heads in Hesiod, or else was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
- Xian: immortal beings in Taoism who were sometimes depicted as humanoids with reptile and human features in the Han Dynasty
- Wadjet pre-dynastic snake goddess of Lower Egypt - sometimes depicted as half snake, half woman.
- Zahhak, a figure from Zoroastrian mythology who, in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, grows a serpent on either shoulder.
Folklore
Fringe theories
Scientific speculation
Fiction
A wide range of fictional works depict reptilian humanoids.
Literature
Television
Star Trek
Ninjago
Other
Comics
Other
Film
Games
Roleplaying and strategy games
Platform and fighting games
See also
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