Is there a mythological name for a cat with wings?

Question

Is there a mythological name for a cat with wings?

Answer 1

The research I've done is strange to say the least. The wikipedia site mentions Norse Goddess Freyjas horse-sized winged blue cats drew her chariot. They were named Brygun and Trejgun. When I googled her and her cats everything came up the same except the wings.



The symbol for St.Mark, the head of a lion with wings checked out: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=218004549&size=o and an artistic version: http://www.web-access.net/~rterry/stmarks/lion_3.jpg



Here is the site of actual winged cats: http://www.messybeast.com/winged-cats.htm



Then there is the Griffin, Griffon, or Gryphon with the body of a lion and the head and wings of a bird at this site:http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/Mcgryphon.html and this site: http://monsters.monstrous.com/griffins.htm



This site shows the head of Bast with wings, in the ears! http://www.catanna.com/bast.htm



Then there are the tressym, winged cats, at this site: http://www.dotd.com/frms/fr_ms_015.htm



Then it could be a Lammasu: Mesopotamian mythology, related to the Sphinx, Mesopotamian Cherub, Griffon, Manticore, and other “half-lion” creatures. That quote came from this site: http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=484550



Heraldry doesn't have a special name for a winged cat either. They simply refer to it as a "winged cat". Example: "Lewis MacGregor. Gules, a hookah Or, on a chief wavy argent a winged cat couchant guardant proper. " From this site: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/1976/01/lar.html Here is a sample page of lions, some with wings: http://www.heraldryclipart.com/imagesamples/heraldry_lions.html



The symbol for Mithras was supposed to be a lions head face on with wings (egyptian like) outstretched behind it, but I couldn't find an example. I did find this on a Tarot Card website. The name of the Mithras winged-cat is Aeon. Here is the site: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=67411



Even the Celts had a version of the winged cat, they called it the Cat Sidhe or Cait Sith. Supposedly it's a winged black cat with a white spot on it's chest. When I tried to find it on a celtic site everything but the wings were mentioned.



Bast, Brygun or Trejgun, St. Marks Lion, Griffin, Griffon, or Gryphon, Tressym, Lammasu, Aeon, Cait Sith take your pick. Best I could do, hun.

Answer 2

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Is there a mythological name for a cat with wings?

Answer 3

Bast (or Bastet), Egyptian goddess with the head of a cat; see also Sekhmet,

Bast's guise as the goddess of lions

Cait Sidhe, a fairy creature from Celtic mythology

The cat was the animal of Libera, the Roman mythological personification of Liberty, because it hates to be constrained

Freyja's horse-sized winged cats, who draw the Norse goddess's chariot

Maneki Neko, the lucky beckoning cat of Japan

Patripatan, the cat that climbed into the sky to praise its master to the gods in South-East Asian Indian mythology

Answer 4

I am going to take the opportunity to take it upon myself to officially declare from this moment forwards that all winged cats of domestic size that have wings, whether they be feathered wings or bat wings that generally appear throughout the fantasy reals should now be officially referred to as...FEFLYNERS. This is obviously a derivative of the words feline and flyer. Singular is just FEFLYNER. Pronounced FEE-FLY-NER. In order to further distinguish the exact type, An Angelic Feflyner has feather wings like a bird or angle, A Bat Feflyner has wings of a bat. One could even go further as to say that a Dragon Feflyner has dragonlike wings, and so on. It is important to say that the cat breed could be of any known domesticated breeds such as tabbies, calicoes, Persians, etc. None of these cats, regardless of breed or type of wings are not necessarily classified as specifically good, evil, or neutral. That would depend on the opinion of each person, as well as the fantasy that such winged cats appear. I am currently working on a fantasy story that includes such a creature and it will in fact be referred to as such. By the way, a kitten of this type is now and forevermore to be referred to as a FEFLYNET pronounced FEE-FLY-NET. I now grant permission for this to forevermore be the official name just to end the debate. Any questions?

Answer 5

The griffin is a mythological creature with the body of a lion and the wings of an eagle--I hope that's close enough to a "cat with wings" for you.

Answer 6

A baby dragon. They look like a cat with wings.

BASTET from Egyptian mythology did NOT have wings.

Answer 7

The ancient Egyptians had a goddess, Bast, that was often seen as a cat with wings.. http://www.catanna.com/bast.htm



Interestingly enough, they're real... winged cats that is. Check out the links below for the proof!

Answer 8

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Icarus had artificial wings along with Dedalus. Harpya has natural wings (a monster in Greek mythology a winged white bird, larger than an eagle, having the (bald) head and breasts of a woman). Pegasus was a winged horse sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa. He was the brother of Chrysaor, born at a single birthing. Feilong is a winged legendary creature that flies among clouds in Chinese mythology. Winged genie is the conventional term for a recurring motif in Assyrian iconography. Winged genies are bearded male figures sporting birds' wings. A frequent motif is that of two winged genies pollinating a date tree (sometimes identified as the Tree of Life), but also as guarding or blessing royal figures. Winged genies co-existed with numerous other mythological hybrids in the Early Iron Age art of Assyria and Asia Minor. They influenced Archaic Greece during its "orientalizing period", resulting in the hybrid creatures of Greek mythology such as the Chimera, the Griffin or Pegasus and, int the case of the "winged man", Talos. The dragons : In Western folklore, dragons are usually portrayed as evil, with the exceptions mainly appearing in modern fiction. In the modern period the dragon is typically depicted as a huge fire-breathing, scaly and horned dinosaur-like creature, with leathery wings, with four legs and a long muscular tail. It is sometimes shown with feathered wings, crests, fiery manes, ivory spikes running down its spine and various exotic colorations. Iconically it has at last combined the Chinese dragon with the western one. Freyja's horse-sized winged cats. Simurgh also known as Angha is the modern Persian name for a fabulous, benevolent, mythical flying creature. The figure can be found in all periods of Greater Iranian art and literature, and is evident also in the iconography of medieval Azerbaijan, Byzantium and other regions that were within the sphere of Persian cultural influence. originally a raptor, likely an eagle, falcon or sparrowhawk, as can be deduced from the etymological cognate Sanskrit śyena "raptor, eagle, bird of prey" that also appears as a divine figure. Saēna is also a personal name which is root of the name.

Answer 9

I think it's Bast from Egyptian mythology.

Answer 10

http://www.greatdreams.com/cats/cats.htm

Answer 11

yes cat with wings....maybe your thinking manticore(head-o-lion)

Answer 12

Isis

Answer 13

Sphinx.

Answer 14

moogle!



Actually, I think griffon is close, possibly manticore, maaaybe even chimera...

Answer 15

The same question comes up again

Answer 16

a freak

Answer 17

griffin

Answer 18

are you thinking of a griffon or something...?

Answer 19

no information

Answer 20

Legendary, mythological and fairytale cats

Bast (or Bastet), Egyptian goddess with the head of a cat; see also Sekhmet, Bast's guise as the goddess of lions

Cait Sidhe, a fairy creature from Celtic mythology

The cat was the animal of Libera, the Roman mythological personification of Liberty, because it hates to be constrained

Freyja's horse-sized winged cats, who draw the Norse goddess's chariot

Maneki Neko, the lucky beckoning cat of Japan

Patripatan, the cat that climbed into the sky to praise its master to the gods in South-East Asian Indian mythology

Puss in Boots

Dick Whittington's Cat

The cats in A Book of Cats and Creatures, a fairy-tale compilation by Ruth Manning-Sanders



[edit] Cats in advertising

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (later the Chessie System Railroad) used a logo with a sleeping kitten "Chessie" and the slogan "sleep like a kitten and arrive fresh as a daisy on the C&O"

Jaguar Cars, the automobile manufacturer whose mascot is a jaguar

Lionel model trains' lion mascot

Mercury Cougar, a car made by Mercury which uses a cougar as its emblem

Esso and Exxon gasoline used a tiger and the slogan "put a tiger in your tank"

Tony the Tiger advertised Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes, later called Frosted Flakes or Frosties

Morris the Cat, the 9Lives mascot

Frank the cat aka the Big Kahuna on Whiskas cat food commercials

Chester Cheetah, from the Cheetos commercials

The lion which represents General Motors Holden vehicles

Rap Cat, a puppet cat featured in several Checkers and Rally's fast-food restaurant commercials

Felix from the Nestlé Purina/Friskies Felix cat food ads.



[edit] Cats and felines in literature

See also Cat-like aliens for that specific kind of fictional cat.



Aineko, a talking robot cat (later a talking software cat) in the "Accelerando" series of science-fiction short stories (and novel) by Charles Stross

Aslan the lion in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and other Narnia stories by C. S. Lewis

Baby, Ayla's hand-reared cave lion in the Earth's Children books

Bagheera the panther in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book

Bastet, matriarch of a line of Egyptian cats in the Amelia Peabody series of mystery novels; followed by Anubis, Horus, Seshat, Sekhmet, and The Great Cat of Re

Behemoth (Begemot, Russian: Бегемот), the huge, trolley-riding, Satanic black cat in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita

Belle Aude, La Bergère, Chatte Grise, Domino, Fanfare, Fossette, Jeune Bleue, Moune, Musette, La Noire, Poucette, La Toutouque, etc.—to mention just a few of Colette’s felines

Bendigo Bung-Eye, a one-eyed ginger cat in the Dick King-Smith book Saddlebottom, who helps Saddlebottom, the improperly marked Wessex Saddleback pig make his fortune in the Royal Wessex Rifles

Birdie, cat of forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in Kathy Reichs' novels

"The Black Cat" named Pluto in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, a study of the psychology of guilt and death

Blackmalkin, Greymalkin, and Nibbins, witches' cats in The Midnight Folk by John Masefield

Broccoli from The Broccoli Tapes by Jan Slepian

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

The Cat with the fiddle who played hey-diddle-diddle in Tolkien's The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late

Tolkien's poem named "Cat" usually known by its first verse: The fat cat on the mat

The Cat That Walked by Himself in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.

The cat who ran away with the pudding string in the nursery rhyme

Carbonel, King of the Cats, in Barbara Sleigh's Carbonel trilogy

The Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, based on the folk saying, "grinning like a Cheshire cat"

Chester, the cat in Bunnicula and sequels by James Howe

Church, the cat who comes back to life in Stephen King's Pet Sematary

Clarence, a pacifist library-dwelling cat who sleeps on the photocopier in Clarence the Copy Cat by Patricia Lakin

C'mell, a humanoid cat, one of the animal-derived 'underpeople' in stories by Cordwainer Smith

The Cowardly Lion, from the Wizard of Oz series

Crookshanks, Hermione Granger's cat in the Harry Potter novels

Damn Cat, hero of the Gordons' Undercover Cat, who returns from a nightly prowl with a kidnapped woman's bracelet around his neck...But where has he been? Later adapted as the Disney film That Darn Cat

Dinah, Alice's pet cat, featured in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and his Through the Looking-Glass

Dragon, the farmer's cat in Robert C. O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Dulcie, a tabby farm cat who appears briefly in "Grimbold's Other World" by Nicholas Stuart Gray, and helps (or hinders) the main characters. It is suggested that she may have some kind of relationship with Grimbold, the cat from the book's title.

Edgewood Dirk, the "prism cat" in the Landover novels by Terry Brooks

Eureka, Dorothy's cat in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, also known as the Pink Kitten

Eurydice, three-legged cat featured in the Whitby Witches trilogy by Robin Jarvis

Mrs Figg's cats in Harry Potter

Faithful in the Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness series

Fireheart, Graystripe, Tigerclaw, and very many other characters in the Warriors saga by Erin Hunter.

Francis the feline detective in the novels Felidae and Felidae on the Road by Akif Pirinçci

Fritti Tailchaser, along with companions Eatbugs and Pouncequick and a host of both supporting feline characters and mythical felines in the Tad Williams novel, Tailchaser's Song.

The fiddle-playing cat in the nursery rhyme where the cow jumped over the moon

The cat and her kittens in the traditional song "Froggy would a-wooing go"

Gareth, Jason's cat in the book Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander.

Ginger, the yellow tomcat who kept shop with Pickles the dog in Beatrix Potter's Ginger and Pickles

Gingivere, Tsarmina's brother in the Redwall book Mossflower, who helped the woodlanders free Mossflower Woods from Tsarmina.

The Glass Cat, a cat made of glass in The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Gobbolino in Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams. Her other books with eponymous feline protagonists include:

Jeffy, the Burglar's Cat and

The Nine Lives of Island Mackenzie

Good Fortune, the cat who goes to heaven in the award-winning story by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Graybar, the black, mouse-hating stray cat in the book Ragweed by Avi and Brian Floca, part of the Poppy Books series.

Graymalk, Jill the Witch's familiar and accomplice of Snuff, from the novel A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. This is a variation on Grimalkin, the name of the witch's cat in MacBeth by Shakespeare (a graymalkin or grimalkin is an old or evil-looking she-cat)

Grimbold, a black "prince of cats" who shows a young goatherd the way to the Night World and leads him into many strange adventures in "Grimbold's Other World", by Nicholas Stuart Gray.

Grimalkin, cat that adopted Sham and Agba in King of the Wind, by Marguerite Henry

Greebo, a witch's cat (in Terry Pratchett novels: see Discworld characters)

Guenhwyvar, Drizzt Do'Urden's mystical black panther from R. A. Salvatore's "The Dark Elf Trilogy". (see Guenhwyvar (cat))

Gummitch the superkitten, in Fritz Leiber's Space-time For Springers

The Hungry Tiger, the Cowardly Lion's closest friend, introduced in Ozma of Oz

I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, a cat describing his owner in Japan

Imelza and her kittens in The Alchymist's Cat by Robin Jarvis

Itty in Hugh Lofting's Dr Dolittle's Return

Jennie, of the Paul Gallico children's book Jennie, released in the U.S. as The Abandoned

Jenny Linsky, a small black cat and her brothers, Checkers and Edward along with her cat friends Pickles, Florio and Macaroni from Esther Averill's children's books.

Joe Grey, Dulcie and Kit, cats able to speak to humans and who solve murder mysteries in books by Shirley Rousseau Murphy.

Jupiter, the evil cat-god in the Deptford Mice books by Robin Jarvis. The son of Imelza (see above)

Kater Murr (Tomcat Murr), in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Life and Opinions of Kater Murr" (1819-1821)

Keeshah, the sha'um (a horse-sized, ridable cat) in the Gandalara Cycle

Kitty, the Ingalls family mouser in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books

Koko and Yum-yum, James Qwilleran's two Siamese cats in the The Cat Who... mystery novels by Lilian Jackson Braun Named for two Japanese characters from Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado.

Little Cats A through Z, from Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

Lipshen, the grand high witch's cat in Roald Dahl's The Witches

Maisie, the Morningside cat, and her friends and family in the series of children's books by Aileen Paterson

Professor McGonagall who can shapeshift into a tabby cat in Harry Potter

Beth March's kittens in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women

Matroskin (Russian: Матроскин, from "матрос" (matros), "sailor"), in Eduard Uspensky's Uncle Fyodor, His Dog and His Cat

Maurice, star of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

Mehitabel, from archy and mehitabel, a dialogue between a melancholy cockroach and a heedless cat, by Don Marquis

Midnight Louie, 20 pound (9 kg) tomcat companion to (and fellow investigator with) amateur sleuth, Temple Barr, featured in a series of romantic mystery novels by Carole Nelson Douglas; occasionally assisted by his sire 3 O'Clock Louie, his Ma Barker and her 24th Street gang, and his kit Midnight Louise.

Minnaloushe, from William Butler Yeats' poem The Cat and the Moon.

Mogget, a magical entity in the form of a cat, in the fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix

Mog who starred in the Meg and Mog series of children's books by Jan Pienkowski

Mog (who was also in a children's series) by Judith Kerr first published in