The pre-Buddhist Mongol war god known as Jamsaran or Begtse wielded a flaming copper sword whose handle was one of these animals' tails.
The pre-Buddhist Mongol war god known as Jamsaran or Begtse wielded a flaming copper sword whose handle was one of these animals' tails. In an ancient Persian tale, a bull sent by Mithras to fertilize the universe with its blood is attacked by one of these animals at the behest of the evil spirit Ahriman. Tjetet, Mestetef, and Telen are three of the seven of these animals that Thoth sends to protect the Egyptian goddess Isis from her brother Set. Shamash's sacred entrance to (*) Kurnugi, the Land of Darkness, is guarded on Mount Mashu by men with the bottom half of these animals in the Babylonian legend of Gilgamesh. According to Ovid's Fasti, Gaea sent a giant one of these animals after a son of Zeus and friend of Artemis who claimed he could kill any living creature. For 10 points, name these arachnids, one of which killed the hunter Orion.
The pre-Buddhist Mongol war god known as Jamsaran or Begtse wielded a flaming copper sword whose handle was one of these animals' tails.
scorpions [or scorpiones] 