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Umay, Ak ana, Gök tengri, Oğuz Kağan, Erlik, Asena etc. These are the most important and known characters. You can read more from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turkic_mythological_figures#

A lot of people love that mythology, so adding a set of creatures like Pegasus, Minotaur, Cyclope, Chimera, Medusa, could be great and fun !

Korkut Ata is a semi-legendary wise figure exalted and sanctified in the ancient epics of the Oghuz Turks. He is known for his deep understanding of the traditions and customs of the steppe life and for preserving the tribal organization. He is also the bard who narrates the stories in the Book of Dede Korkut, the oldest epic of the Turks. In historical sources and various Oghuz legends, he is sometimes referred to simply as "Korkut," sometimes as "Korkut Ata," and in Western Turkic as "Dede Korkut." Folk tales collected from the Syr Darya basin present him as a shaman (baksı), while written sources describe him as a Muslim Turkish saint who served as a vizier and advisor to rulers. In 2018, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan jointly included the Book of Dede Korkut in UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. According to folk traditions, Dede Korkut was born from an enlightened, clear-eyed giant woman, but historical sources vary on details about his life. The oldest historical source mentioning Korkut Ata is Jami' al-Tawarikh by Rashid al-Din, the vizier of the Ilkhanate. This famous work, written in 1305 by Rashid al-Din with a committee, refers to Korkut as a contemporary of four Oghuz rulers. According to this source, Korkut was from the Bayat tribe and the son of Kara Hoca. He lived 295 years. He appeared during the reign of Inal Sir Yavkuy, the ninth ruler of the Oghuz lineage, and served as an advisor to the tenth ruler, Kayı Inal Khan, and to the following three Oghuz rulers.

A Turkish mythical creature that is believed to be a humongous ghoul with a long beard carrying a wand and wandering at night to scare people https://igapostgrads.blogspot.com/2016/07/introduction-to-turkish-gothic-101.html

Greek Gods are known all around the world, each of them representing their own domain. Western culture has countless references to Ancient Greece, including the gods. There are so many of them, so I just picked 7 for the set: Zeus (King of the gods, god of the sky) Apollo (God of music, arts) Aphrodite (Goddess of love and beauty) Ares (God of war) Artemis (Goddess of the hunt, wilderness, animals) Athena (Goddess of reason, wisdom, intelligence) Poseidon (God of the sea) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures (The attached image is not mine)

(1) King Arthur, (2) Guinevere, (3) Sir Lancelot, (4) Morgan Le Fay, (5) Merlin, (6) The Lady of the Lake I'd love a premium set dedicated to Arthurian mythology.

Odysseus: He was the king of Ithaca. His shrewdness, resourcefulness, and endurance enabled him to capture Troy and endure nine years of wandering and adventures before reaching his home in Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, awaited him. Hector: Hector was a prince of Troy renowned for his bravery, military skill, and sense of duty. Son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba. His wife was Andromache and they had a son, Scamandrius or Astyanax. He was Trojan hero and warrior, he fought bravely against the Greeks in the Trojan War. Achilles: Achilles, the son of Peleus and Thetis, was the greatest, bravest and handsomest of all Greek heroes who took part in the Trojan War. Achilles and Patroclus are considered to be lovers or at least, great friends. Prometheus: Prometheus was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene. Even though a Titan himself, together with his brother Epimetheus, he sided with Zeus during the Titanomachy. However, after helping Zeus to achieve victory in the war, he started a quarrel with him over his supposed unfair treatment of humanity. This led to Prometheus stealing the fire from the gods and gifting it to humanity, which resulted in Zeus chaining Prometheus and sending an eagle to prey upon his continually regenerating liver. Orpheus: Orpheus was considered thel best musician and poet of all, and he perfected the lyre. He was married with Eurydice she was tragically killed and Orpheus is left alone. Nothing brings him joy any more, not even playing his music. Determined to get her back, Orpheus travels down the Underworld. He manages to charm all of the defenses of the Underworld with his music. The god of the Underworld himself is so moved by Orpheus’s music that he allows Orpheus to lead Eurydice back to the land of the living as long as he follows one rule: he cannot look back for her until they were both back in the land of the living. He agreed, and began to lead Eurydice away from the Underworld. When Orpheus finally led his wife back to the surface, he was so excited that he turned around to embrace her…only to see that Eurydice had not fully made it out of the Underworld yet. With the rule broken, Eurydice disappeared and was lost forever. Heracles(or Hercules): He was the greatest of all Greek heroes. A half-god of superhuman strength and violent passions, Heracles was the epitome of bravery and masculinity in the ancient world and the most notable champion of the Olympian order, which he staunchly protected from various chthonic monsters and earthly villains.

The Nordic folklore character Nøkken, näcken or näkki were male water spirits who played enchanted songs on the violin, luring women and children to drown in lakes or streams. However it was not always defined as malevolent in nature, and its enchanting spell of music that lured you into the lake could be broken by calling out its name.

Stamps depicting one of the great India literature - Ramayana.

Every country has its own creatures. Like vampire, trol(?), dragon ect. In Korea has many traaditional creatures too. After Japanese colonial era they changed our creatures similar as them. But many book of history and record left it wasn't shaped like before. So I'd like to request real Korean creatures remove Japan made it. The most famous creature is goblin. In English, only that word could explain what is it, but it is totally different. We called it 도깨비. Follow the record, they looks like human. Most of them are man and tall. They like playing with human, so they treated many times. They enjoyed 씨름. this is kind of traditional sports in Korea. They didn't have any horn, scary things. They like drink and buckwheat jelly. They afraid of blood especially well-known as chicken's blood or horses. They are just like human and if human win in 씨름, they give them what they want. So still some village in Korea has many stories that 도깨비 helped people. Make bridge for people(it well-known that never cllapse until now, it made of rocks.), help them could grow grain well in dry season. And they always called human "김서방" Maybe they could thought Korean has many surname, Kim. It is very friendly image in history. You can see it in picture. The angel of death is also not have any profit words to translated. We call them 저승사자. Main mission is same. They took dead people to the next world. When popular series of drama show them in TV to scare people, Recently people imagine that image. But in record, usually they wear very sparkle. Usually they wear traditional clothes of general. And sometimes do mistakes. They took people to their boss we call him 염라대왕. They comfused for same name, so they have to bring them back to live, but sometimes their body already burried so.. or sometimes they could reach before funeral ended, some people live again. They are like public official in the next world. Also I hear nine tails fox are different than china and japan. In both countries it is scary creatures. But in Korea, we usually thought they have desire to be human. There has some method to do, It isn't important now. We also seperated spirit dead before married. If it was girl, we called 처녀귀신. If it was boy, we called 몽달귀신. Well, also has baby spirit, but I'm not sure of it. I heard it calls 태자귀. So many creatures was exist. But almost of them are not that harm to human. Just like surprising. Now it is hard to find, but we have 성주신, 조왕신, 측간신ect. https://namu.wiki/w/%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%9D%98%20%EC%9A%94%EA%B4%B4 https://namu.wiki/w/%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%20%EC%9A%94%EA%B4%B4%20%EB%8F%84%EA%B0%90 In pictures korean translated ---- I like singing, but I'm tone-deaf an inability to lie I really like ssireum Wearing a pants jacket, smells like yellow aversion to blood the dislike of red bean porridge, which is similar in color to blood Demon's post, bat, and so on. a love of company a fondness for mischief He's big and strong forgetfulness lending money to good people a fondness for women the act of setting a fire with a goblin fire Likes shady, dark places hairy all over one's body