Talk:Lamia/@comment-162.40.234.220-20140412210333/@comment-4211718-20150911220024

It's a lot closer than calling them Lamias though (since as I pointed out, the original Lamia had pretty much nothing to do with snakes to begin with), and a great deal of the actual art (sculptures or paintings) of the Naga in mythology actually do depict them as being physically half human and half snake with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a snake. So in general I think that "Naga" would be the more appropriate term than "Lamia" would be. Obviously in works (like Monster Girl Encyclopedia, or others like Monster Musume) where human-snake hybrids are officially called Lamias they should be referred to as such, but as a general creature and concept, hybrids like this are always going to be called Nagas by me as I feel it's the more appropriate identifier.