Greek Monsters

[Zak Roy Yoballa]

I'm starting a thread here and hopefully in the near future will be putting it into the Wikipedia site, anyone who has anything to add feel free.

ZRY

[Horus]

is it just about greek monsters

[Zak Roy Yoballa]

Chiron

Although he looked like a centaur, technically he wasn't.  He was the son of Philyra and of the Titan Cronos.  Cornos, hiding his lust from his wife Rhea, turned himself into a horse and because of this their progeny was half-horse.  

Chiron was also unlike the centaurs because he was so wise and balanced.  Talented in warfare and music, hunting and medicine, Chiron was the personal teacher of several Greek heros including Jason and Achilles.   His friendship with Apollo was legendary and he so impressed the gods that upon his death Zeus put him in the sky as the constellation Centaurus.

[Zak Roy Yoballa]

is it just about greek monsters

Yes.  But I'm going to start a similar thread for ther pantheons soon.

[Horus]

allright then did harpies have beautiful faces or where they horrifying

[Zak Roy Yoballa]

Harpies:

AKA: 'storm goddesses'

Orignally these beings were said to be beautifully devine winged beings with lovely hair and faces.  Later they were said to be the more commonly recoginzed half-bird/half-woman creature that I married.  Just kidding honey  .   What ever they looked like they were always vile and nasty thieves who preyed upon the weak be they wounded from battle, starving in the wilderness, young unattended babes in their cribs, or handicapped seers.   

[Zak Roy Yoballa]

The Minotaur:

He was the result of King Minos' wife Pasiphae and Poseidon's white bull have a child.  He had the body of a man and the head of a bull.  When the Creteans concured Athens, they made the Atheneas pay an annual tribute of seven boys and seven girls to be fed to the Minotaur.  The hero Theseus saved the Atheneas from this by solving the Minotaurs maze (thanks to some string, a niffty sword and the help of King Minos' daughter Ariadne) and killing the beast.

[Abbadonenator]

Typhoeus/Typhon: A serpent like monster who is sometimes described as the source of devastating storms; and sometimes as a volcanical demon whose eyes shot out flames. He was conceved by Gaea, Mother Earth, and Tartarus.
Typhon tried to establish himself as the ruler of the world, but Zeus, the almighty God, managed to kill him with a thunderbolt after a fearful struggle.

"Now after Zeus had driven the Titanes out of heaven, gigantic Gaia (Earth), in love with Tartaros (the Pit), by means of golden Aphrodite, bore the youngest of her children, Typhoeus." - Hesiod, Theogony 820

Typhon is said to be the father of several monsters such as the sphinx, cerberus, gorgon, scylla, the hydra of lerna and draco hesperidum (the serpent guardian of the famous tree that gave golden apples)

[whitefox17]

Τέλος θα ήθελα να μάθουν για την ιστορία μου ως μέρος ελληνικά
which is greek for I finally learn about my history as  a part greek

[TheTerror]

was cerberus a greek monster
I know  that atilla the hun new bout it

[Petling]

I think that's cuz Attila the Hun conquered so much land form Asia that he even took over part of Rome?

[Regina Terra]

Is the Lamia a Greek myth, or a Roman one?

[7VII7]

I think they're similar enough it doesn't matter. . .

[Amaya]

Is the Lamia a Greek myth, or a Roman one?

At this point in history, it matters little because what survived of the Greek and Roman myths have been interchanged and melded into one.

It was originally Greek. It was originally the name of the queen of Libya who had her own myth. The Romans made it into a species.

[Regina Terra]

What strikes me is the similarity between the Lamia and the Naga. Basically they are both the upper bodies of a human, and the lower bodies of a snake, although the Naga has more freedom to change it's shape than the Lamia.

This is just one example of different cultures in separate land regions "inventing" the same creature. Such examples make me wonder if there really IS a creature, or source for these things, that two different people tried to explain.