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Monopod

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Monopods were mythological dwarf-like creatures with a single, large foot extending from a leg centred in the middle of their bodies. The names monopod and skiapod are both Greek, respectively meaning "one-foot" and "shadow-foot". Wikipedia
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Monopod (creature) ... Monopods (also called sciapods, skiapods, skiapodes) were mythological dwarf-like creatures with a single, large foot extending from a leg ...
THE SKIAPODES (Sciapods) were a tribe of one-legged, giant-footed Ethiopian or Indian men who raised their large foot into the air for shade against the hot ...
one of a mythological people having feet big enough for use as sunshades and living according to classic Greek mythology in Libya or according to medieval ...
The Sciapods, a.k.a. Monopods or Monocoli, are a mythical race of one-legged humanoids reported to inhabit either India or Ethiopia. They're most well-known ...
Sciapods are a Brown-sknned people, with trademark curly or woolly hair that goes along with it. Their height, weight and body types range within those of ...
2012, Simon Garfield, On the Map , Profile Books, page 48: To the modern viewer, though, it is the weirdness that most enthrals: the rich, demonic and comical ...
The term Skiapode (also spelled Sciapode, Skiapod or Sciapod) derives from the Greek compound skia-podes (σκιάποδες), literally meaning "shadow-foot".
This strange carving is of a creature called a sciapod who was thought to live in the desert and used his foot to shade him from the sun!
Sep 22, 2022 · Sciapods are creatures that appeared in medieval iconography, represented as a human-like figure with a single large foot raised as a sunshade.
Sep 18, 2011 · A Sciopod (or Sciopodes, plural) was described as being human in appearance, though small in stature and so pale as to be described as albino.