Talk:Chimera (mythology)

message: Is it known that the Chimaera was female? Or is it merely a guess from the "-a" at the end of its name? Χιμαιρα is Greek for "billygoat".
I agree -- the line "The word Χιμαιρα is Greek for billygoat" seems to be a non sequitur
This article currently says that it's male "yet" it has a mane. That implies to me that it used to say "female despite a mane" and someone changed part of it. It currently makes no sense.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 21:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Chimaira is generally regarded as female despite the mane.  I've made the change. ==Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 22:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Female monster 

message: Many historians believe that mythical monster "Chimaera" is a posterior "monsterization" (by ancient Greek myth-makers) of Cimmerians, an ancient warlike people lived (or invaded from Scythia of Eastern Europe) in southwestern Anatolia (Lycia?).
--IonnKorr 13:12, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would call Lycia SW Anatolia myself; can you remember specific historians?Septentrionalis 04:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chimaera and Cimmerians 

message: The character that Xollob has just kindly reinstated at the end of "Yanartas" (I presume it is a s-cedilla but can't tell) displays on my screen as a little square. Is there anything I can do to get it to displeay correctly? TobyJ 15:45, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Try switching your computer's base font to unicode; but this is a question whether non-portable characters, even when correct, are desireable. Septentrionalis 19:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Displaying s-cedilla character

message: The list under "Chimera in popular culture" is almost identical to that on the Chimera disambiguation page, though the latter is broken down into separate categories - fiction, games and music. Maybe this list can be merged into that one, as this article is supposed to be specifically on the Chimera in Greek mythology, and other uses of the term should probably be kept to the disambiguation page? Miss Lynx 17:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicate content?

message: I know a Chinese ancient imagined animal is translated to Chimera. I don't know if anyone could give more detailed descriptions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.68.49 (talk) 16:03, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a link to a paper on that topic. Vmenkov (talk) 23:20, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the Qilin and it doesn't really resemble the Chimaera anyway. (WP Editor 2011 (talk) 04:24, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Chinese Chimera's descriptions 

message: Well, I thought that Mission Impossible 2 also included the Chimera/Chimaera/Chimaira in the movie.Zheliel (talk) 12:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mission Impossible 2 

message: Thought maybe adding its appearances in popular culture such as Final Fantasy Series, or Full Metal Alchemist. Popular culture?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.89.224.6 (talk) 04:39, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture/ references 

message: Why is Excalibur linked? It seems to be a total non-sequitur. The only reason I can think of is that both are mythological and both appear in Final Fantasy. --174.16.159.172 (talk) 06:25, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excalibur? 

message: Since this is the primary topic, which the fish genus is named after, shouldn't this one be moved to Chimaera? FunkMonk (talk) 19:41, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary topic 

message: Its good
 Winstondinesh (talk) 12:18, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: I think this article can have a "Not to be confused with chimera (grotesque) in architecture" template at the top, or something along that sort linking to Grotesque (architecture). Somerandomuser (talk) 00:47, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add not to be confused with chimera (Grotesque (architecture)) 

message: I believe that people may confuse the Chimera of having another head representing a dragon, I believe DnD was responsible for that added addition and it may confuse would-be readers. Because of the huge influence of the DnD Chimera that permeates in many fantasy settings that I think this should be pointed out, so that people understand the differences between the Mythological Chimera vs. the Pop Culture Chimera.
Personally it has happened to me when I was much younger; I always thought the Chimera had a Dragon's head for the longest time haha! 74.124.162.10 (talk) 04:09, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Pop Culture Error?  

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Chimaera(creature) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 22#Chimaera(creature) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 06:02, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Chimaera(creature)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

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