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In Japan, there is a legend about a mysterious alien, the creature is regarded as the devil and described as having a body half bird and half human. These creatures are called by the name of Tengu.Amazingly, the mummies Tengu neatly stored in Aomori prefecture.

Useum Hachinohe in Aomori, northern Japan, is home to a tengu mummy who supposedly was originally owned by Nobuyori Nambu, Nambu clan leader who ruled the Hachinohe in the mid-18th century.

Mummy to have a human head, but has hairy legs and wings like a bird. Tengu that has become a mummy is believed to come from the town of Nobeoka (Miyazaki prefecture) in southern Japan.Some theories said that the mummy is up to the northern Japan after bequeathed to some member of the ruling Japanese Samurai family, to finally get to Hachinohe in Aomori Museum.

Tengu mythology begins around the 6th century BC in line with the arrival of Buddhism to Japan from China. Tengu is considered as goblins who live in the forests and mountains. They are said to have supernatural powers like being able to transform into a human or animal, can speak to humans without opening his mouth and was able to move from one place to another on the fly using wings.

Tengu word actually means "dog heaven". In Chinese mythology, this creature also has its own place under the name Tien Kou (Tiangou) which also means a dog heaven. Name is not in accordance with the description of the Tengu. These creatures have no way as a dog, but more like a bird.

Book Nihon Shoki, which is considered the most ancient records first mention Tengu, written in 720 AD, states that in that century Japan a meteor across the sky and the meteors are called by a Buddhist monk as Dog Heaven (Tengu). But how Tengu evolved from a meteor into flying creatures are not known with certainty.

In general, Tengu has two physical forms. The first is called Karasu tengu who has a head and beak like a bird. The second was a Konoha tengu who has a shape like a human but has wings and a long nose (sometimes called a Yamabushi tengu)

Long-nosed Tengu as known to people today is the result of the depiction of people in the Middle Ages. In the story Konjaku Monogatari-sh?, Mite described could run on air, and as a ghost-shaped kite that makes a man possessed. The depiction is expected to take the model of a ghost Temma in the Buddhist concept that described the human body and a pair of wings.

Mite early models may change in the first half of the Muromachi period. In the collection of folklore Otogiz? Shi Tengu no story there Dairi (Palace of Tengu) that the main character named Kurama Tengu. In addition, Ushiwakamaru reportedly received art lessons at the Temple of the sword of tengu Kurama.Dalam Heike Tale, mite is described as "human but unlike humans, birds but not like a bird, a dog but do not like dogs, arms and legs like a human hand and foot,his face like a dog, has a wing on either side, and can fly. "

According to legend, as a young boy, a legendary Japanese soldier named Minamoto no Yoshitsune who lived in the years 1159-1189 been practicing swordsmanship with the king of Tengu Soujoubou Kuramadera in the mountains near the northern Kyoto.

There is no description and further information about the mummies on display in the museum Hachinohe. Is it really pure evil, cryptozoology creatures, or a fake artwork from centuries past.Some researchers believe that the mummy was a man-made works of art, but no definite evidence provided to support this theory.

source : yahoo.com