Talk:Naga/@comment-2602:301:772E:EBA0:4125:C81E:77C6:769B-20180826174813/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180827030753

There's a pretty big range in meaning. Lamia originally refers to a single demi-god who got up to so much crazy mischief that people mistook her for an all-female race of monsters cause there was no way one demi-god could cause that much trouble.

Which is why the only real difference between saying "lamia" and "naga" is that one can be male and the other can't.

Which is not always strictly observed, you can posit that there are male lamias...it's just that then there is no difference at all between "lamia" and "naga".