Blemmyae | Imaginary Creatures https://imaginarycreatures.co.uk Your helpful guide to imaginary creatures Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:07:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://imaginarycreatures.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-imaginary-creatures-32x32.png Blemmyae | Imaginary Creatures https://imaginarycreatures.co.uk 32 32 Acephali https://imaginarycreatures.co.uk/acephali/ https://imaginarycreatures.co.uk/acephali/#respond Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:29:19 +0000 http://imaginarycreatures.co.uk/?p=164 Acephali simply means “headless” or “without head” in Ancient Greek (from Ancient Greek: ἀκέφαλοι “headless”, singular ἀκέφαλος akephalos from ἀ- a-, “without”, and κεφαλή kephalé, “head”). And as such, if you look up the creature Acephali, you may find it hard to get much information, because Acephali became a term – often used in the Church – for sects or religions without a “head” or leader. I can imagine this being quite the put-down in its day.

The Acephali as an imaginary creature is usually depicted simply as a human with no head and a face on their torso instead – a guy has got to eat right?

Fabled human-like creatures in Greek mythology, similar to Pliny the Elder’s Blemmyae.

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