Ahuizotl took his name from the animal Ahuizotl, which the Aztecs considered to be a legendary creature in its own right rather than a mere mythical representation of the king.

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

* Glaucus ( son of Sisyphus ), a mythical Corinthian king

Later, Herodotus ( Histories i. 7 ) adds that the " Meiones " were renamed Lydians after their king, Lydus ( Λυδός ), son of Atys, in the mythical epoch that preceded the rise of the Heracleid dynasty.

* Lludd Llaw Eraint, a mythical Welsh figure cognate with king Nuada Airgetlám

Strabo referred Pisa's origins to the mythical Nestor, king of Pylos, after the fall of Troy.

Proetus () was a mythical king of Argos and Tiryns.

Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Oberon is named after the mythical king of the fairies who appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Oedipus ( or ; Oidípous meaning " swollen foot ") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.

In Greek mythology Danaus, or Danaos (), was the twin brother of Aegyptus and son of Achiroe and Belus, a mythical king of Egypt.

Epopeus ( Ἐπωπεύς ) was a mythical Greek king of Sicyon, with an archaic bird-name that linked him to epops ( ἔποψ ), the hoopoe, the " watcher ".

In the possibly mythical pre-dynastic period, the Sumerian king list portrays the passage of power from Eridu to Shuruppak in the south, until a flood occurred, from where it relocated to the northern city of Kish at the start of the Early Dynastic period.

Cecrops (, Kékrops ; gen .: Κέκροπος ) was a mythical king of Athens who is said to have reigned for fifty-six years.

The genus is named after Cecrops I, the mythical first king of Athens.

Acrisius () was a mythical king of Argos, and a son of Abas and Aglaea ( or Ocalea, depending on the author ), grandson of Lynceus, great-grandson of Danaus.

The footnotes to this story also state that Cinyras is " Another mythical king of Cyprus.

Any resemblance to the name Midas, another mythical king of Phrygia, may be entirely coincidental.

The earlier writers only speak about it under the name of Aea ( Aia ), the residence of the mythical king Aeëtes: " Kolchian Aia lies at the furthest limits of sea and earth ," wrote Apollonius of Rhodes.

It has been suggested that there could be another personality named Tmolus, a mythical king of Lydia, a son of Sipylus and Chthonia, and the husband of Plouto and stepfather of Tantalus.

An earlier genealogy may have made Agron, as a legendary first king of an ancient dynasty, to be a son of the mythical Ninus, son of Belus, and stopped at that point.

In Gylfaginning, Heimdallr is introduced in chapter 25, where the enthroned figure of High tells the disguised mythical king Gangleri details about the god.

It has been theorised that Menes was possibly a mythical king, similar to Romulus and Remus of Rome.

The first four deal with the mythical history of Genoa from the time of its founder, Janus, called the first king of Italy, and its enlarger, a second Janus " citizen of Troy ", till its conversion to Christianity " about twenty-five years after the passion of Christ.

The genus Pandion was described by the French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny in 1809, and is taken from a mythical Greek king, Pandion.

The genus name Pandion is after the mythical Greek king Pandion of Athens and grandfather of Theseus, who was transformed into an eagle.

According to the Historia Regum Britanniae written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in around 1136, " the coast of Totnes " was where Brutus of Troy, the mythical founder of Britain, first came ashore on the island.

Not incidentally, the castle has a long association with the Arthurian legends, going back to the 12th century when Geoffrey of Monmouth in his mythical account of British history, the Historia Regum Britanniae described Tintagel as the place of Arthur's conception.

The castle has a long association with the Arthurian legends, being first associated with King Arthur by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his mythical account of British history, the Historia Regum Britanniae.

While they do eventually become factual lines, unlike those of Geoffrey, their origins are vague and often incorporate both aspects of mythical British history and mythical Irish history.

The foundation myth of Cornwall originates with the early Brythonic chronicler Nennius in the Historia Brittonum and made its way, via Geoffrey of Monmouth into Early Modern English cannon where it was absorbed by the Elizabethans as the tale of King Leir alongside that of Cymbeline and King Arthur, other mythical British kings.

Queen Marcia was the mythical third queen regnant and a regent of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Sisillius II ( Welsh: Seisyllt map Kyhylyn ) was a mythical king of the Britons as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

The character is based on Morgan le Fay, the mythical sorceress and half-sister of King Arthur first made popular in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini ( Life of Merlin ).

Such sightings and stories may simply be a more modern manifestation of earlier stories of mythical black dogs and other such creatures in remote areas of Britain, such as those that inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles.

It is cheerfully anachronistic and light-hearted, set in a fantasy Great Britain of long ago, with mythical creatures, medieval knights, and primitive firearms.

This style, rare in Britain until reintroduced by William Kent at Kensington Palace, consisted of foliage forms interwoven with mythical creatures, such as cherubs or sphinxes.

The Ulster historian Richard Warner has theorised that the Midlands leader Túathal Techtmar, usually thought mythical, was in fact historical and went to Britain to get Roman support for his military campaigns ( along with other later exiles ).

" Indeed, many historians believe King Arthur to be an entirely mythical character with no basis in historical fact, whilst some others disagree, maintaining that the legendary figure may be based upon an Early Medieval British leader who might have been involved in fighting the migrating Anglo-Saxons who were settling in Britain at that time.

The Lyonesse Trilogy is a group of three fantasy novels by Jack Vance, set in the European Dark Ages, in the mythical Elder Isles west of France and southwest of Britain, a generation or two before the birth of King Arthur.

In the mythical story of the founding of Britain, Albion was a Giant son of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.

As such they were key works in shaping how the Welsh thought of themselves and others, tracing their origins back to Brutus, the mythical founder of the Britain.

* Lucius of Britain, a mythical 2nd century Christian king of Britain, first mentioned in the 6th century

Clarent, pronounced ( cluh-rent ), is the mythical sword in the stone which Arthur pulled free to become King of Britain.