page_title: Dragonslayer
section_title: Dragonslayer characters
hierarchical_section_title: Dragonslayer / Dragonslayer characters
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 國輝画「本朝英雄傳」より「牛頭天皇 稲田姫」、大判錦絵 English: Gozu Tennô kills a dragon to save Princess Inada. He, whose name literarily means "ox-headed heavenly king", is a deity of Buddhist origin considered as identical to Shinto's Susanoo-no-Mikoto. Note that Tennô (天王) here means "heavenly king" and is distinguished from Japanese Emperor's title Tennô (天皇) though the same pronunciation.
context_page_description: A dragonslayer is a person or being that slays dragons. Dragonslayers and the creatures they hunt have been popular in traditional stories from around the world: they are a type of story classified as type 300 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system. They continue to be popular in modern books, films, video-games and other entertainments. Dragonslayer-themed stories are also sometimes seen as having a chaoskampf theme - in which a heroic figure struggles against a monster that epitomises chaos.
context_section_description: Antiquity
  Enki
  Ninurta
  Inanna
  Marduk
  Ra
  Teshub
  Indra
  Baal
  El (deity)
  Yahweh
  Archangel Michael
  Apollo
  Zeus
  Jupiter
  Perseus
  Heracles
  Saint George
  Vahagn
  Tarḫunz
  Cadmus
  Rostam
  Fereydun
  Garshasp
  Yu the Great
  Erlang Shen
  Eurybarus
  Mwindo
  Medieval and early Modern legend
  Guy of Warwick
  Baldr
  Beowulf
  Sigurd or Siegfried
  Tristan
  Margaret the Virgin
  Heinrich von Winkelried
  Gawain
  Dobrynya Nikitich
  Skuba Dratewka/Krakus
  Drangue
  Susanoo
  Nezha
  Lancelot
  Făt-Frumos
  Fráech
  Bayajidda
  Bahrām Gūr
  Iovan Iorgovan
  Haymon
  Tokoyo
  Wada Heita Tanenaga
  John Lambton
  Mamadi Sefe Dekote (Africa)
  Benzaiten aka Saraswati
  Teodosio de Goñi
  Tolkien's legendarium
  Túrin Turambar
  Eärendil
  Fram
  Bard the Bowman
caption: Susanoo slaying the Yamata no Orochi, by Kuniteru
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