Dragon-Carp

Also called Dragon Carp.

A Korean fish with a dragon's head and a carp's tail, who spoke from the net and repaid the fisherman who let him go.

Tradition: Korean mythology
Region: Korea (place of origin)
Trait family: The Swift-Footed
Symbols: DragonFish

Near this figure

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Symbols

Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.

Dragon is image-domain The dragon denotes chaotic instinctual power, guardian of hoarded treasure and fertility, destructive in the West and, in China, the beneficent waterlike way of things.
why
A Korean fish with a dragon's head and a carp's tail, who spoke from the net and repaid the fisherman who let him go.
Fish is Fish denote aquatic life, fertility, renewal, divine nourishment, and resurrection, while specific traditions also treat them as offerings, taboos, ghosts’ food, or oracles.
why
A Korean fish with a dragon's head and a carp's tail, who spoke from the net and repaid the fisherman who let him go.

Traits

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Form

Hybrid of multiple animals
why
The Dragon-Carp of Korean folklore is a hybrid in the plainest sense: the head of a dragon set on the tail and body of an enormous carp, and possessed of human speech.

Utility powers

Speech
why
The Dragon-Carp of Korean folklore is a hybrid in the plainest sense: the head of a dragon set on the tail and body of an enormous carp, and possessed of human speech.

Roles

Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.