List of reptilian humanoids

Reptilian humanoids are fictional organisms of varied species in folklore, science fiction, fantasy, and conspiracy theories.

The Dinosauroid, a hypothetical anthropomorphic sapient dinosaur

Folklore

Reptilians occur in a variety of folklore genres:

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.[1]
  • Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake
  • 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 Lamia: a child-devouring female demon from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half serpent.
  • Nāga (Devanagari: नाग): reptilian beings (king cobras) from Hindu mythology[2] said to live underground and interact with human beings on the surface.
  • Ningizzida, Lord of the Tree of Life, mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh and linked to the water serpent constellation Hydra.
  • Nüwa: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology
  • 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.[3]
  • Shenlong: a Chinese dragon thunder god, depicted with a human head and a dragon's body
  • 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,[4] or else was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
  • 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

Modern legend, folktale, and folk belief

Fringe theories

Scientific speculation

Modern 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
  • Kobolds
  • Lizardfolk
  • Saurial
  • Troglodytes
  • Yuan-ti

Platform and fighting games
gollark: I should make this.
gollark: Or a drone, actually, but instead of hunting you it just follows you and makes annoying beepy noises.
gollark: Please make that.
gollark: λασερ
gollark: υεετ

See also

References
  1. Pausanias (2012). Pausanias's Description of Greece. Cambridge University Press. pp. 616–. ISBN 978-1-108-04725-8.
  2. Elgood, Heather (2000). Hinduism and the Religious Arts. London: Cassell. p. 234. ISBN 0-304-70739-2.
  3. Olson, Dennis T. (1996). Numbers. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 135–8. ISBN 978-0-8042-3104-6.
  4. Hesiod, Theogony 823–835.
  5. Idema, Wilt L. (2009). The White Snake and Her Son: A Translation of the Precious Scroll of Thunder Peak with Related Texts. Hackett Publishing. ISBN 9781603843751.
  6. Lewis, Tyson; Richard Kahn (Winter 2005). "The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Icke's Alien Conspiracy Theory". Utopian Studies. 16 (1): 45–75.
  7. Frel, Jan (1 September 2010). "Inside the Great Reptilian Conspiracy: From Queen Elizabeth to Barack Obama – They Live!". Alternet. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
  8. Russell, D. A.; Séguin, R. (1982). "Reconstruction of the small Cretaceous theropod Stenonychosaurus inequalis and a hypothetical dinosauroid". Syllogeus. 37: 1–43.
  9. Saneyoshi, Tatsuo (2006). Hontō ni ita fushigina ikimono: Jinrui to dōbutsu no sosentachi [Unaccountable creatures that really existed: The ancestors of human and other animals] (in Japanese). Tokyo: PHP Kenkyūjo. pp. 41–48. ISBN 978-4-569-65442-3.
  10. Kaneko, Ryūichi (1997). Shin kyōryū densetsu : Saiko kyōryū eoraputoru kara kyōryū jinrui made kyōryūgaku no saisentan [New dinosaur book: The front-lines of dinosaurology, from Eoraptor as the earliest dinosaur to Sapient dinosaurs] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Hayakawashobō. pp. 204–206. ISBN 978-4-15-050211-9.
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