Fianl Fantasy is Great... Below is a list of most of the summons of the Final Fantasy Series and their ties to Real Life Mythologies... Tiamat is the primordial mother goddess in Babylonian and Sumerian mythology, and a central figure in the Enûma Elish creation epic. Ifrit, are a kind of Jinn mentioned in the Qur'an. Shiva is the supreme God in Shaivism, one of the major branches of Hinduism practiced in India. Quetzalcoatl ("feathered serpent" or "plumed serpent") is the Nahuatl name for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerican culture. In Greek mythology, the Titans were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. Diablo is the Spanish word for the Devil. Anima, originally from Latin, refers to passion, spirit, and "living essence." Ark : both Noah’s and the Ark of the Covenant In Hinduism, the Asura are a group of power-seeking deities, sometimes referred to as demons. Bismark is a town in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Chaos typically refers to unpredictability, and is the antithetical concept of cosmos. Knight of the Round King Author’s Knights In Irish mythology Cúchulainn is an Irish folk legend and the pre-eminent hero of Ulster in the Ulster Cycle. In Greek mythology a Cyclops is a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single round eye in the middle of its forehead. Eden is obvious: The Garden of Eden Exodus is the second book of the Torah, the Tanakh, and the Old Testament. The major events of the book concern the Exodus, a departure of Hebrew slaves from Egypt under the leadership of Moses. Hades refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and the god of the dead. Hashmal is an angelic entity in both Judaism and Christianity. Hydra was an ancient nameless water beast that possessed numerous heads— the poets mention more heads than the vase-painters could paint— and poisonous breath. In Greek mythology, Ixion was king of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly, and a son of Ares or Antion or the notorious evildoer Phlegyas, whose name connotes "fiery". Kirin, the Japanese and Korean word for the Qilin, a mythical beast in Chinese culture and also the word for giraffe in the Ming Dynasty Kjata is the bull which rides atop the giant whale called Liwash who also supports another bull called Bahamut in some versions of one medieval Islamic cosmology. Moomba is an annual festival in the city of Melbourne, Australia and one of the largest and longest running festivals in Australia. Pandemonium is stemmed from Greek, it is the name invented by John Milton for the capital of Hell. Phantom A ghost or other apparition. In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is the battle at the end of the world. It would be waged between the gods and their aggressors. Not only will some of the gods, giants, and monsters perish in this apocalyptic conflagration, but almost everything in the universe will be torn asunder. Raiden is Japanese for "thunderbolt". In demonology, Valefar is a Duke of Hell. He tempts people to steal and is in charge of a good relationship among thieves, but later he brings them to the gallows. Azrael (Zalera) is typically known as one of the names of the angel of death, and is an English form of the Arabic name Ezra'il or Ezra'eil, the name traditionally attributed to the angel of death in Islam, although the Qur'an never uses this name, usually using instead Malak al-Maut. The term zodiac meaning "circle of little animals", denotes several places where a circle of twelve animals occurs. Alexander is the name of lots of Popes and other religious leaders As defined by chemistry, atomos means 'indivisible particle'. Bahamut is a giant omnipotent being in Arabian mythology. Bahamut rides on a giant whale creature called Liwash that resides in a vast sea, the Adwad. He supports a huge bull named Kjata who supports a rock of ruby, atop which stands an angel who supports the seven heavens. Bomb…self-explanatory Brothers In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet, was originally the war goddess of Upper Egypt. In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a creature that was part man and part bull. Cactuar is like cactus A carbuncle is an abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. The catoblepas is a legendary creature from Ethiopia, described first by Pliny the Elder and later by Claudius Aelianus. It has the body of a buffalo and a head of a hog. Its back were full of scales that protected the beast, and its head was always pointing downwards. Its stare or breath can either turn people into stone, or kill them. In Greek mythology, Cerberus was the hound of Hades, a monstrous three-headed dog (sometimes said to have 50 or 100 heads) with a snake for a tail and serpentine mane. Chocobo is a big mountable chicken. A cockatrice is a legendary creature, "an ornament in the drama and poetry of the Elizabethans.” The cockatrice was invented in the late twelfth century based on a hint in Pliny's Natural History, as a duplicate of the basilisk or regulus, in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with a lizard-like tail. Doom Train is a train that causes doom. Salamander is the common name applied to approximately 500 amphibians with slender bodies, short legs, and long tails. In Norse mythology, Fenrir is a wolf, the son of Loki and the giantess Angrboða. The Garuda is a large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Gilgamesh, according to the Sumerian king list, was the fifth king of Uruk (Early Dynastic II, first dynasty of Uruk), the son of Lugalbanda, ruling circa 2650 BC. Legend has it that his mother was Ninsun, a goddess. A goblin is an evil or merely mischievous creature of folklore, often described as a grotesquely disfigured or gnome-like phantom. In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated being created entirely from inanimate matter. Indra (Ramuh) is the god of weather and war, and lord of Svargaloka in Hinduism. Leviathan was a Biblical sea monster referred to in the Old Testament (Psalm 74:13-14; Job 41; Isaiah 27:1). In Roman Catholicism or the Church of England, the "lychgate" is a covered area at the entrance to the cemetery where the casket awaits the clergy before proceeding into the cemetery for proper burial, "lych" being a word meaning body or corpse derived from Old English. In fantasy, the Lich is an undead creature that was never properly buried, never made it to the grave. Odin (Old Norse Óðinn) is considered the chief god in Norse mythology and Norse paganism. Phoenix is a mythical bird that dies in flames and is reborn from the ashes Remoras or suckerfish are elongate brown fish in order Perciformes and family Echeneidae. In Greek mythology the Sirens or Seirenes were Naiads (sea nymphs) who lived on an island called Sirenum scopuli. Sylph is a faux-mythological creature in the Western tradition. The term originates in Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air, his elementals of air. In Greek mythology, Typhoon was the final son of Gaia, the Earth, this time by Tartarus, the cavernous void beneath. The unicorn is a mythical beast usually depicted with the body of a horse, but with a single – usually spiral – horn growing out of its forehead. In Japanese, a Yojimbo is a bodyguard or security person. Ronin and samurai with low salaries were sometimes hired as yojimbo. Often yojimbo were ronin hired by the Yakuza and used as executioners and assassins rather than as bodyguards. | 
