Hippalectryons
The Hippalectryon wasn’t as renowned as its fantastical cousins – the Pegasus or the Hippogriff. This lesser-known chimera boasted a bizarre form: the powerful forequarters of a horse transitioned abruptly into the wings, tail, and feathered legs of a rooster. Depicted on some Athenian pottery and mentioned in passing by a playwright, the Hippalectryon remains an enigmatic creature, a whisper of the vast bestiary hidden within the myths.
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