ピュグマイオイ
1. Pygmy (Greek mythology)The Pygmies were a tribe of diminutive humans in Greek mythology. Their name in Greek was Pygmaioi, from pygmê, the length of the forearm. According to the Iliad, they were involved in a constant war with the cranes, which migrated in winter to their homeland on the southern shores of the earth-encircling river Oceanus. In art the scene was popular with little Pygmies armed with spears and slings, riding on the backs of goats, battling the flying cranes.
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