Rare Monsters

  The Aksar is an apocalyptic beast from Arabian mythology, where it’s also known as Dabbat al-Ard, or Beast of the Earth. The Aksar was a chimeric beast with parts from many animals. It had the head of a bull, eyes of a pig, ears of an elephant, antlers of a stag, neck of an ostrich, shoulders of a lion, hips of a leopard, tail of a ram and legs of a camel. Most scholars think this assemblage of animals is meant to just be freaky for the sake of freaky, to get across the idea of ‘monstrousness’, although I think it’s the result of someone explaining a giraffe to another person who’s never seen one before, and many more additions made in repetition. The aksar is said to be a stunning 30 meters tall too. The Aksar would take part in the destruction of the world at the end of time. It would wield Moses’s staff and Solomon’s ring, using them to separate believers from non-believers. Before this, while Moses was on Mount Sinai God brought the Aksar out from its sanctuary to ...

  In the west dragons are usually associated with evil. This is especially true in the bible where Satan takes on the form of a dragon even. So it will surprise many that there are angelic dragons too. The chalkydri are angelic beasts that had the heads and tails of crocodiles, the bodies of lions and twelve wings. They were burning hot and glowed with fiery radiance. The name chalkydri meant copper serpent in ancient Greek, although the chalkydri were said to be purple in color. The chalkydri were described in the apocryphal Second Book of Enoch, where they were said to live in the heavenly sphere of the sun (the level of the heavens the sun occupied in it's rotation around the Earth in the Earth-centric Aristotelian model of the universe, rather than specifically in the sun itself). They shared this home with the phoenixes. The chalkydri were high ranking angels, associated with the similarly fiery seraphim. They were commanded by Uriel. Every morning the chalkydri and phoenixe...

  The locusts of Abaddon are a type of monster that appears in the book of Revelations. They had the head of a man, the teeth of a lion and the long flowing hair of a woman. They had horse like bodies, wings and scorpion tails. They were also wearing crowns and iron breast plates. No part of the demonic locusts were insect like. The insect shell and wings are my own interpretation, as Revelations doesn't state what kind of wings they have. Referring to these demons as locusts comes from their vast numbers, which is like a locust swarm. The locusts were released from the bottomless pit by Satan after the fifth angel blew their trumpet. The locusts were commanded by the demon Abaddon, also known as Apollyon, his name meaning the destroyer. The locusts were commanded to not harm the natural life of Earth but only attack sinners, or the men who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. Even then the locusts were not to kill the sinners, but just torture them relentlessly for fi...