Griffins

Greek Mythology and Legends features a lot of frightening monsters. They are all amazing kinds of creatures from monsters to multi-headed creatures. All these are mixed with tales of Greek heroes conquering them.

Greek myths feature interesting stories of monsters and frightening creatures which are wide in range. There are dragons, giants, demons and ghosts. There are also multi-headed creatures like sphinx, minotaur, centaurs, manticores and griffins.

Sphinx is a lion with a human head and in Greek Mythology it is a demon of destruction and bad luck. Minotaur is a creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man. It was imprisoned at Labyrinth created by Daedalus who was also imprisoned there later. It was killed by Theseus, a Greek hero.

Centaurs are strange creatures that have the upper portion of a man but lower portion of a horse. So they have two hands and four legs like a horse-man. The other variations also had wings and horns.

Manticores are multiple parts of different animals. They are similar to sphinx in that they have the head of a man and the body of a red lion. They also have three rows of sharp teeth like a shark. Their tales are of scorpion or dragon. Their feet may be of dragon but their voice sounds like a trumpet. They kill their victims or paralyse them by shooting poisonous spines. Their variants also have wings and horns.

Griffins are amazing creatures in Greek Mythology and are said to be from India. They have the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. They look ferocious and are symbols of heroism. Interesting these monsters find gold on mountains and built nest with them. Thus hunters are on the lookout for them who get killed by this creature.

There was the most deadly monster of Greek Mythology called Typhon. He has human form in upper half and a hundred dragon heads on each of his hands. He had fire flashing eyes, hands reaching out to east and west. His bottom part had viper coils that could reach top of his head making hissing noise when stretched out. He tried to destroy Zeus but Zeus captured Typhon and trapped underneath Mount Etna.

There were Harpies who were birds with women’s voices and the Sirens who were winged creatures with beautiful voices. The Harpies were snatchers and they constantly steal food from Phineas. The Sirens lure sailors with their voices as they are always on an island. They were seductive and lured sailors to death by shipwrecking to rocky coasts.

Echidna was the mother of all serpents in Greek Mythology. She was a female monster and was half nymph and half snake. She, with Typhon, mothered every major monster in featured in Greek Mythology.

The monsters born for Echidna make a big list of most dangerous creatures. Larnean Hydra, Namean Lion, Lycian Chimera, Cyclops (the one-eyed monster) and so on. The list is endless. All these amazing frightening creatures are beautifully described in the tales of Greek Mythology as they are conquered by Greek heroes.

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King of Olympus

Zeus (pronounced /ˈzuːs/; Ancient Greek: Ζεύς, pronounced zdeus; Modern Greek: Δίας) is the King of the Gods in Greek Mythology.[3] Zeus was viewed as a king who oversaw the universe. In Hesiod's Theogony, he assigns the various gods their roles. In the Homeric Hymns he is referrred to as the chieftain of the gods. He is also called the "Father of Gods and men", according to Hesiod's Theogony. He ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus in ways representative as both a father as head of the family and a king. He was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the Ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.

Zeus was the child of Cronus and Rhea, and the youngest of his siblings. In most traditions he was married to Hera, although, at the oracle of Dodona, his consort was Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione.[2] He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone (by Demeter), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen, Minos, and the Muses (by Mnemosyne); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.[4]

In Greek, the god's name is Ζεύς Zeús /zdeús/ or /dzeús/ (Modern Greek /'zefs/) in the nominative case and Διός Diós in the genitive case. His Roman counterpart was Jupiter and his Etruscan counterpart Tinia. In Hindu mythology his counterpart was Indra with ever common weapon as thunderbolt, which he could hold like a staff.

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Gorgon

In Greek mythology, the Gorgon (plural: Gorgons) (Greek: Γοργών or Γοργώ Gorgon/Gorgo) was a terrifying female creature. It derives from the Greek word gorgós, which means "dreadful." While descriptions of Gorgons vary across Greek literature, the term commonly refers to any of three sisters who had hair of living, venomous snakes, and a horrifying gaze that turned those who beheld it to stone. Traditionally, while two of the Gorgons were immortal, Stheno and Euryale, their sister Medusa was not, and was slain by the mythical hero Perseus.

Gorgons were a popular image of Greek mythology, appearing in the earliest of written records of Ancient Greek religious beliefs such as those of Homer. Because of their legendary gaze, images of the Gorgons were put upon objects and buildings for protection. For example, an image of a Gorgon holds the primary location at the pediment of the temple at Corfu. It is the oldest stone pediment in Greece and is dated to c. 600 BC.

Origins

The concept of the Gorgon is at least as old in mythology as Perseus and Zeus. The name is Greek, being derived from "gorgos" and translating as terrible. Other scholars find the goddess to have early origins in Ancient Greek religion.

Author Marija Gimbutas (Language of the Goddess) believed she saw the prototype of the Gorgoneion in Neolithic art motifs, especially in anthropomorphic vases and terracotta masks inlaid with gold.

The large eyes, as well as Athena's "flashing" eyes, are symbols termed "the divine eyes" by Gimbutas (who did not originate the perception), appearing also in Athena's bird, the owl. They can be represented by spirals, wheels, concentric circles, swastikas, firewheels, and other images.

The fangs of the Gorgons are those of snakes and are likely derived from the guardians closely associated with early Greek religious concepts at the centers of oracles. In some cruder representations such as the image just above to the right, blood flowing under the head of the Gorgon has been mistaken for a beard or wings.


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