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  2. In ancient Greek and Roman legend the Machlyes were Libyan tribe of hermaphrodites or androgynes whose bodies were male on one side and female on the other. The historical tribe known as the Machlyes inhabited the region about Lake Tritonis in north-west Libya. The warlike practices of the young women and long-hair of the men probably gave rise to the legend of androgyny.
  3. In ancient Greek and Roman legend the Melanchroti were a tribe of black-skinned men who lived in the lands south of Egypt and west of the Nile (i.e. modern-day Sudan). Their king had a single eye set in the middle of his forehead--much like the Cyclops encountered by Odysseus.
  4. Cynocephalus from the Nuremburg Chronicle (1493) THE KYNOKEPHALOI (Cynocephali) were a tribe of dog-headed men native to Africa and India. The name Kynokephalos means dog-headed from the Greek words kuôn "dog" and kephalos "head".. The legend probably originated in ancient travellers' accounts of African baboons which were mistaken for a tribe of men.
  5. Pygmies on the Nile, Greco-Roman fresco from Pompeii C1st A.D., Naples National Archaeological Museum THE PYGMAIOI (Pygmies) were a tribe of diminutive African men who lived on the southernmost shores of the great earth-encircling river Okeanos (Oceanus) where they were engaged in an endless war with flocks migrating cranes.. The Pygmaioi were described as tiny, black-skinned men who grew to a ...
  6. CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 6. 194 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) : "On the African side [of the Aethiopian kingdom of Meroe] are the Medimni, and then a Nomad tribe that lives on the milk of the dog-faced baboon [the Cyncophali], the Alabi, and the Syrbotae who are said to be 12 feet high."
  7. MEDUSA. MACARIA (Makaria) The goddess of a blessed death and afterlife.. MACHAE (Makhai) The female personifications of battles and combat.. MACRIS (Makris) A rustic nymph of the island of Euboea, who nursed the infant god Dionysus.. MACROCEPHALI (Makrokephaloi) A fabulous tribe of African men with long heads.. MAEANDER (Maiandros) A river of Caria and its god. ...
  8. Agdistis was an ancient Phrygian goddess. She was an hermaphroditic deity born when the Earth-Mother was accidentally impregnated by the sleeping Sky-God. The gods, in fear of the strange double-gendered being, castrated it so creating the goddess Kybele (Cybele).
  9. CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 6. 200 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) : "Opposite this cape [the Atlantic coast of Africa] also there are reported to be some islands, the Gorgades [perhaps the Canary Islands], which were formerly the habitation of the Gorgones, and which according to the account of Xenophon of Lampsacus are at a distance of two ...
  10. Hermaphroditus was the ancient Greek god of hermaphrodites and of effeminates. He was numbered amongst the winged love-gods known as Erotes. Hermaphroditus was a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, the gods of male and female sexuality. According to some he was once a handsome youth who attracted the love of the nymph Salmacis. She prayed to to be united with him forever and the gods, answering her ...
  11. LIBYA (1) The goddess nymph of north Africa. She was a daughter of Epaphos (the Egyptian bull-god Apis) loved by Poseidon. LIBYA (2) One of the Oceanid nymphs. LIBYES TIMEOROI Three goddess-nymphs protectors of the region of Lake Tritonis in Libya, North Africa. LILAEA (Lilaia) The Naiad nymph of the town of Lilaea in Phocis, central Greece.

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