List of reptilian humanoids

The Dinosauroid, a hypothetical anthropomorphic sapient dinosaur.

Reptilian humanoids appear in folklore, science fiction, fantasy, and conspiracy theories.

Mythology

  • Boreas (Aquilon to the Romans): the Greek god of the cold north wind, described by Pausanias as a winged man, sometimes with serpents instead of feet.
  • Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake.
  • Chaac: the Maya civilization rain god, depicted in iconography with a human body showing reptilian or amphibian scales, and with a non-human head evincing fangs and a long, pendulous nose.
  • Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids.
  • Some djinn in Islamic mythology are described as alternating between human and serpentine forms.
  • Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake.
  • Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology.
  • Glycon: a snake god who had the head of a man.
  • The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair.
  • The Lamiai: female phantoms from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half-serpent.
  • Nāga (Devanagari: नाग): half-human half-snake beings from Hindu mythology said to live underground and interact with human beings on the surface.
  • Nüwa: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology.
  • Shenlong: a Chinese dragon thunder god, depicted with a human head and a dragon's body.
  • Serpent: an entity from the Genesis creation narrative occasionally depicted with legs, and sometimes identified with Satan, though its representations have been both male and female.
  • Sobek: Ancient Egyptian crocodile-headed god.
  • Suppon No Yurei: A turtle-headed human ghost from Japanese mythology and folklore.
  • Tlaloc: Aztec god depicted as a man with snake fangs.
  • Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, had a hundred snake-heads in Hesiod, or else was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
  • Xian: immortal beings in Taoism who were sometimes depicted as humanoids with reptile and human features in the Han Dynasty
  • Wadjet pre-dynastic snake goddess of Lower Egypt - sometimes depicted as half snake, half woman.
  • Zahhak, a figure from Zoroastrian mythology who, in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, grows a serpent on either shoulder.

Folklore

Fringe theories

Scientific speculation

Fiction

A wide range of fictional works depict reptilian humanoids.

Literature

Television

A Draconian mask, on display at the National Space Centre

Doctor Who

Star Trek

Ninjago

Other

Comics

Marvel

DC

Other

Film

Games

Roleplaying and strategy games

Dungeons & Dragons

Platform and fighting games

See also


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