{"id":42,"date":"2009-12-04T11:31:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T05:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=42"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:53:08","slug":"axex-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2009\/12\/axex-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"AXEX: (EGYPT)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>These Griffin-like natives of North Africa were worshiped as gods by the ancient Egyptians and were said to bear the head and wings of a hawk blended with the muscular torso and razor sharp claws of a large, feral feline.<\/p>\n

Most depictions of these HYBRID BEASTS<\/a>, which — like so many other potentially \u201creal\u201d creatures that were included among the pantheon of Egypt\u2019s minor deities — show three, curved appendages resting atop the their skulls. These strange adornments, which bear more than a passing resemblance to a rooster\u2019s crest, have made some researchers conclude that human interactions with these unique creatures were almost solely with that of the, presumably predatory, males of the species.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Some investigators have gone so far as to suggest that the Axex is merely the Egyptian name for one of the world’s most famed AVIAN-ANOMALIES<\/a>; the GRIFFIN. While it is possible that these beasts were one in the same, there is also the chance that they were separate sub-species indigenous to two different regions. This animal has also been associated with the winged British scavenger known as the OPINICUS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These Griffin-like natives of North Africa were worshiped as gods by the ancient Egyptians and were said to bear the head and wings of a hawk blended with the muscular torso and razor sharp claws of a large, feral feline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[1119,503,499,500,1108,501,502],"class_list":{"0":"post-42","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beyond-mythology","8":"category-monsters","9":"tag-beyond-mythology","10":"tag-bird-monster","11":"tag-griffen","12":"tag-gryphon","13":"tag-monsters","14":"tag-opinicus","15":"tag-sphinx"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/axex31.jpg?fit=400%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10457,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/10457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}