Qilin
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The qilin is a legendary hooved chimerical creature that appears in Chinese mythology, and is said to appear with the imminent arrival or death of a sage or illustrious ruler. Qilin are a specific typ
Qilin shaped incense burner 1 CAC
Qilin tomb guardian, 4th century CE
A Ming-era painting of a tribute giraffe, which was thought to be a qilin by court officials, from Bengal
A Qing dynasty statue of a qilin in Beijing's Summer Palace
Unicorn
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The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.
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…kalVyǝ "mammoth" (in Enets and Nganasan). As even aborigines "vaguely familiar with the underlying real animals" often confuse the whale, mammoth, and unicorn: they conceptualized the mammoth and whale as aquatic, as well as the mammoth and unicorn possessing a single horn; for inland populations, the extant…
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A Virgin with a Unicorn, fresco by Domenichino, c. 1604–1605 (Palazzo Farnese, Rome)
Indus stamp seal and modern impression; unicorn and incense burner or manger, 2600–1900 BC
Winged bull, perhaps perceived as a unicorn, in the Palace of Darius in Susa, Iran