![]() ![]() One of the best known and wisest centaurs was Chiron.Īlthough most centaurs were described as wild, Chiron was different. They were considered to be the children of Ixion, king of the Lapiths, and Nephele, a cloud made in the image of the Goddess Hera.Īccording to a different myth, however, they were all born from the relationship between a single Centaurus with the Magnesian mares. They have the body of a horse but the torso, head and arms of a man. Media_camera The Centaur - half man and half horse.Ĭentaurs are half-human, half-horse creatures. When Greek hero Odysseus became shipwrecked, he barely escaped her clutches by clinging to a tree until the improvised raft that she swallowed floated back to the surface after many hours. She would wait for fish, dolphins and men to pass her way and then rush out one of her heads to drag the victim back into her cave to be eaten.Ĭharybdis, who lived under a fig tree on a nearby shore to the narrow waters, swallowed and spat out the waters three times a day to create a deadly whirlpool that would trap ships. The name Scylla means puppy and it is believed this monster could only make puppy noises. From her home in a cave she ate whatever came within reach, including six of Odysseus’s companions. Scylla was a supernatural female creature, with 12 feet and six heads on long, snaky necks, each head having a triple row of shark-like teeth, while her upper legs were surrounded by the heads of vicious dogs. ![]() These two monsters are well-known from the story of the hero Odysseus in Homer’s book Odyssey, Book XII. ![]() Scylla was a six-headed monster which, when ships passed, tried to swallow one sailor for each of its heads.Ĭharybdis created an enormous whirlpool that threatened to swallow the entire ship. Scylla and Charybdis are two of the best known monsters in Greek Mythology and two of the scariest.īoth were extremely dangerous for sailors on the high seas and they ruled a stretch of narrow waters believed to be the Straits of Messina, that many ships had to navigate through. Media_camera Scylla and Charybdis try to send a boatload of sailors to their deaths. ![]()
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