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In #GreekMythology The #Lernaean Hydra/Hydra of #Lerna/#Hydra, is a sea #monster. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the #Argolid. It had 9 heads and if one was removed 2 more grew back in its place. It was killed by #Heracles.
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In #GreekMythology the #Cyclopes were #monsters with 1 eye, they traded the other for the ability to see the #future. The Cyclopes were the children of #Gaia (earth) and #Ouranous (sky) and made the #weapons used by the #gods.
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In #GreekMythology, #Charon is the son of #Nyx and #Erebus. A #psychopomp/#ferryman of #Hades who carries (for a price) #souls of the deceased across the #rivers #Styx and #Acheron that divided the living world from the #Underworld
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In #GreekMythology, #Scylla is a #monster who lives on one side of a channel of water. Sailors would pass close and her 6 heads would snatch them from boats. She had 12 tentacles, a cat's tail, and 4 dogs heads encircled her waist.
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The #Harpies were #monsters in #GreekMythology that had the form of a #bird with female faces; they abducted people and tortured them on their way to the #Underworld, they were employed by the gods to punish the guilty
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Today is #GlobalCatDay, in #EgyptianMythology the #goddess of #cats, #domesticity, #secrets, #fertility, and #childbirth. She protected the home from evil #spirits and diseases
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Although not technically #monsters, today's #Spooktober focus and #FolkloreThursday are The #Erinyes/#Furies: 3 #goddesses retribution who punished men for crimes. They were concerned with homicide, offenses against the gods, and perjury.
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In #NorseMythology, #Jörmungandr, known as the #MidgardSerpent, is a sea #serpent, child of #Loki. #Odin took Loki's 3 children —#Fenrir, #Hel, and Jörmungandr—and tossed Jörmungandr into the #ocean that encircles #Midgard
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#Fenrir from #Norsemythology is the #giant #wolf child of #loki chained to a rock before #Ragnarok destined to break free, eat #Odin and the sun and help destroy the world
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Today's #Spooktober #monster is #Cerberus. In #GreekMythology, #Cerberus is the #hound of #Hades and a #hellhound. He is a #dog with three heads that guards the gates of the #Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving.
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Today's #Spooktober #monster is central to the #mythology of Eastern Europe. #Vampires. Creatures from folklore that feeds on the blood of the living. They are undead and cannot go out in the sun. In #GreekMythology #Ambrogio is the first #vampire.
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Today #Spooktober "#monster" is one of the most famous in #GreekMythology. The #Minotaur was a half man, half #bull son of #Poseidon/a bull and #Pasiphae. Pasiphae's husband, the real monster, #Minos trapped him in a #Labyrinth and forced him to eat humans.
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German painter #HansBaluschek (1870-1935) focused his work on the life of the German working class.
#germanartist #germanpainter #art #artworld #worldofart #workers #workingclass #painter #baluschek #illustrator #berlin #berlinsecession
Today's #Spooktober #monster are the #Sirens from #GreekMythology they lured sailors with their music and singing to eat on their island. In the original #myth they were half woman, half bird; they are often represented incorrectly as #mermaids
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Today's #mythological #monster is #Lamia. She was #Queen of #Libya in #GreekMythology who had an affair with #Zeus. When #Hera stole Lamia's children. In anger Lamia killed every child she and became a #daemon who ate kids
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It is now #Spooktober so I shall be posting about #monsters from #Mythology
#Echidna a half woman, half snake in #GreekMythology known as the mother of monsters She was the wife of #Typhon the most fearsome monster in #GreekMyth
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In #GreekMythology #Zeus was #god of the #Sky and #Thunder, King of the gods and men, and, consequently, the chief figure in #mythology. The son of #Kronos and #Rhea, he famous for his infidelity to his sister, #Hera, someone counted all of his 177 affairs.
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In #GreekMythology #Apollo is one of the Twelve #Olympians. He is the son of #Zeus and #Leto and the twin of #Artemis. He is the god of #healing, #medicine, #archery, #music, #poetry, #math, #prophecy, and the #sun after #Helios gave up the role.
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#Thesis is the often overlooked #primordial #goddess of #creation related to #Physis: #MotherNature. She occurs in the #Orphic #Theogonies the first being to emerge from #Chaos alongside #Hydros the Primordial #Waters and #Phanes/#Life
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Today is #NationalFamilyDay and the #gods of #GreekMythology are the most dysfunctional family ever. #Zeus cheating on #Hera, #Athena hating #Ares, #Aphrodite causing trouble
Who do you think is the most #dysfunctional in the #family?
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