List of reptilian humanoids

Reptilian humanoids comprise a common motif in mythology, folklore, science fiction, fantasy, conspiracy theories, ufology and cryptozoology.
==In mythology==
Reptilian humanoids in world mythology include:
===Male===
*Boreas (Aquilon to the Romans): the Greek god of the cold north wind, described by Pausanias as a winged man with serpents instead of legs.
*Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake
*Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids
*Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology
*Glycon: a snake god who had the head of a man.
*Ningizzida, Lord of the Tree of Life, mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh and linked to the water serpent constellation Hydra.
*Shenlong: a Chinese dragon thunder god, depicted with a human head and a dragon's body
*Sobek: Ancient Egyptian crocodile-headed god
*Tlaloc: Aztec god depicted as a man with snake fangs
*Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
*Zahhak, a figure from Zoroastrian mythology who, in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, grows a serpent on either shoulder
===Female===
*Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake.
*Enchanted Moura from Portuguese and Galician folklore appears as a snake with long blonde hair.
*The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair.
*The Lamia: a child-devouring female demon from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half serpent.
*Nüwa: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology
*Wadjet pre-dynastic snake goddess of Lower Egypt - sometimes depicted as half snake, half woman
*The White Snake: a figure from Chinese folklore
===Either===
*Some djinn in Islamic mythology are described as alternating between human and serpentine forms.
*Nāga (Devanagari: नाग): reptilian beings from Hindu mythology said to live underground and interact with human beings on the surface.
*The Serpent: a character from the Genesis creation narrative occasionally depicted with legs, and sometimes identified with Satan, though its representations have been both male and female.
==In cryptozoology==
Purported reptilian humanoid cryptids include:
*The Cherufe in Chile
*The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp in South Carolina, USA
*The Loveland Frog (or Loveland Lizard), in Loveland, Ohio, USA
*Jake the Alligator Man, a sideshow gaff in Long Beach, Washington, USA
*The Thetis Lake monster in Canada
*Flatwoods monster (referred to as the "Lizard Monster" on the March 10, 2010 episode of MonsterQuest)
==In ufology and conspiracy theories==
*Reptilians appear in some claims of alien encounters and in the conspiracy theories of David Icke
*Lemurians, reptilian humanoids in the writings of Helena Blavatsky
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