When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

The pedestal on which the Emerald Buddha deified is decorated with Garuda ( the mythical half-man half-bird form, a steed of Rama, who holds his mortal enemy Naga the serpent in his legs ) motifs It is central to Thai Buddhism.

The central Shiva relief Trimurti is located on the south wall and is flanked by Ardhanarisvara ( a half-man, half-woman representation of Shiva ) on its left and Gangadhara to its right, which denotes river Ganges's descent from Shiva's matted locks.

Other passengers include the last Bene Tleilax Master Scytale, some Bene Gesserits, a group of Jews saved from Honored Matre oppression on the planet Gammu, seven small sandworms that can produce spice, and four captive Futars, fierce half-man / half-cat creatures bred to hunt Honored Matres.

Some examples include his first film role in Quest for Fire, where he played a neanderthal, The Name of the Rose where he plays a disfigured hunchback, Beauty and The Beast, where he played Vincent, a man with the face of a half-man half-lion-like beast, The Island of Dr. Moreau where he plays a half man / half animal, Star Trek Nemesis in which he is the Reman viceroy and the Hellboy films where he plays the titular demon.

* Indian Kinnara which are half-horse and half-man creature.

One of the most popular forms of Shiva is Ardhanarisvara, or half-man / half-woman, which represents Shiva united with his shakti ( female creative power ).

He was supposed to be reborn as a human, but ends up in the womb of a female boar due to an error at the Reincarnation Wheel, which turns him into a half-man half-pig monster.

A nature god usually found haunting the deep woods of the Ramtops, in which he manifests himself as an oak tree or a flute playing half-man, half-goat figure.

In 1975, Hamri's book Tales of Joujouka, which told stories from the village, including " The Legend of Boujeloud ", the half-goat / half-man creature celebrated in the annual ritual, was published by Capra Press in Santa Barbara.

After a long time the half-man dragged himself over to the group with his powerful arms.

The half-man woke, recognized Mercer and gave him a healthily sleepy grin.

`` No '', said the half-man, `` a sort of eye-machine with real people doing the figures ''.

`` Soon '', said the half-man.

The half-man laughed with something close to real humor.

Mercer did not know what an `` Earth-week '' was, since he had not been a well-read man before his conviction, but he got nothing more from the half-man at that time.

Kinnaras, another half-man half-horse mythical creature from the Indian mythology, appeared in various ancient texts, arts as well as sculptures from all around India.

Roman Mythology identifies the Greek satyr with its faun being half-man, half-goat.

He then demanded that, at nine-year intervals, seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth created by Daedalus.

The labyrinth had been built by King Minos to hide the Minotaur, a half-man half-bull creature that was the offspring of Minos ' wife, Pasiphae, and a bull.

In this incarnation, the Black Goat may represent Satan in the form of the satyr, a half-man, half-goat.

The half-man half-fish character known as The Missing link ( often referred to as ' Link ') in the movie Aliens vs. Monsters is an homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Pro Wrestling for the Nintendo Entertainment System features The Amazon, otherwise known as Half-piranha, half-man, who shares many similarities with the Creature.

King Roland contacts the mercenary Captain Lone Starr ( Pullman ) and his mawg ( half-man, half-dog ) sidekick, Barf ( Candy ), offering a lucrative reward to retrieve Vespa before she is captured.

* Pizza the Hutt, named after the pizza restaurant chain, is a half-man, half-Pizza Mafioso and a parody of Jabba the Hutt.

Aegipan, literally " goat-Pan ," was a Pan who was fully goatlike, rather than half-goat and half-man.

) The sisters were terrified by what they saw in the box: either a snake coiled around an infant, or an infant that was half-man and half-serpent.

Icarus's father Daedalus, a talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull.

Lapithes was a valiant warrior, but Centaurus was a deformed being who later mated with mares, from whom the half-man, half-horse Centaurs sprang.

Fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures: whereas fauns are half-man and half-goat, satyrs originally were depicted as stocky, hairy, ugly dwarfs or woodwoses with the ears and tails of horses or asses.

Narasimha is often visualized as half-man / half-lion, having a human-like torso and lower body, with a lion-like face and claws.

She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.

A few yards beyond the group of men, a man's nude body lay face down on a patch of thick green dichondra.

It lay with its head on its paws and only its eyes moving, watching us carefully.

We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.

The twist lay in using Bing Crosby's voice on the sound track while leading man Eddie Bracken mouthed the words.

At least I had been unable to lay hold on the experience of conversion.

It is hard not to lay most of the blame for their failures on the pope.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

Lewis warned him never to lay a hand on him, and then Blackman asked for his fare back to the United States.

They lay on his lap, palms up, stiffly motionless, the tapered fingers a little thick at the joints.

and though he had found the strength to run with us, now he collapsed and lay on the ground, dying, the Reverend holding his head and wiping his hot brow.

Underneath the big one, in the silent moonlight, lay a dead pigeon, and on the smaller bell, the Clemence, two gray and white birds slept huddled together in the cold winter air.

The morning hawk, hungry for any eatable, killable, digestible item, kept his eyes on the ring of anchored ships that lay off the shores in the bay, sheltered by the Jersey inlets.

What hope lay in the nephews, she asked the intensifying light out there, with one married to a barren woman and the other divorced, having sired two girl children, with none to bear on the Packard name??

She lay still on the bed, her head hardly denting the pillow ; ;

He had on his gray tweed overcoat and his city hat, and his brief case lay on the bench.

every morning, I lay out his clothes on it ''.

A president is frequently besieged to serve in non-academic civic and governmental capacities, to make speeches to lay groups, and to make numerous ceremonial appearances on and off campus.

Set the apples in the pastry-lined tin, spread over them three tablespoonfuls of softened butter, with as much brown sugar, a sprinkling of nutmeg, and a fresh bay leaf, then lay on a cover of pastry, and gild it with beaten yolk of egg.

Reports Jim Lendrum: `` By studying men on the job, we found that two men -- a carpenter and a helper -- can lay a floor faster than three.