Mythological Monsters 2

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Part 2 of the mythical monsters videos is finally ready :)!!! The 7 monsters are :1 Giants:The mythology and legends of many different cultures include monsters of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. “Giant” is the English word commonly used for such beings, derived from one of the most famed examples: the gigantes of Greek mytho-logy.In various Indo-european mythologies, gigantic peoples are featured as primeval creatures associated with chaos and the wild nature, and they are frequently in conflict with the gods.There are also accounts of giants in the Old Testament, most famously Goliath, attributed to them are extraordinary strength and physical proportions. Fairytales (like Jack the Giant Killer) have formed our modern perception of giants as stupid and violent monsters. 2.Griffin: The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Greek: γρύφων, Latin: gryphus) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle’s talons as its front feet. As the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle was the king of the birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. The griffin was also thought of as king of the creatures. Griffins are known for guarding treasure and priceless possessions.There are a number of different types of griffins: the snake-griffin(has a lion’s body, a snake’s head and a bird’s legs),the lion-griffin (is lion-like but has hind legs shaped like those of a bird), the hippo-gryph (is a mix of a griffin and a horse). 3.Harpies:The Harpies (Greek: ἅρπυια) were fierce, filthy, winged monsters who had characteristics of a bird and a woman, similar to that of the early Sirens. Their hideous faces of women with sharp claws mounted on the bodies of vultures inspired both horror and disgust. The three daughters of Thaumas and Electre called Aello, Ocypete, and Celaeno were originally goddesses with beautiful hair and wings until they were reduced to harpies. They are sometimes represented as demons of death carrying away the souls of deceased persons. In Greek mythology,the Harpies were constantly stealing all food from Phineus,the King of Thessaly. 4.Hekatonkheires :The Hecatonchires, or Hekatonkheires (Ancient Greek: Ἑκατόγχειρες ), were figures in an archaic stage of Greek mythology, three giants of incredible strength and ferocity that surpassed that of all Titans whom they helped overthrow. They were gigantic and had fifty heads and one hundred arms each of great strength and were associated with the crashing of waves and earthquakes. There were three of them: Briareus or Aegaeon, Cottus, and Gyges or Gyes , their parents were Uranus and Gaea . Hesiod’s theogony reports that the three Hekatonkheires became the guards of the gates of Tartarus. 5.Hydra: In Greek mythology, the Lernaean Hydra (Ancient Greek: Λερναία Ὕδρα) was an ancient serpent-like chthonic water beast, with reptilian traits , that possessed many heads (nine, although she may had six, seven, eight or fifty,and for each head cut off it grew two more) and poisonous breath and blood so virulent even its tracks were deadly. Hydra was the daughter of Echidna and Typhon and the half-sister of the Nemean Lion. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, beneath the waters was an entrance to the Underworld, and the Hydra was its guardian.The Hydra of Lerna was killed by Heracles as the second of his Twelve Labours. 6. Kraken: Kraken are legendary sea monsters of giant proportions said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland According to stories this huge, many armed, creature looked like an island when motionless and could reach as high as the top of a sailing ship’s main mast with its arms deployed. When the Kraken attacked a ship, it wrapped its arms around the hull and capsize it. The crew would drown or be eaten by the monster. Kraken were mostly noticed in the seas of Scandinavia.The legend may have originated from sightings of giant squid (13–15 m/40–50 ft). 7. Lamia:In ancient Greek mythology, Lamia (Greek: Λάμια) was a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating daemon. Aristophanes claimed her name derived from the Greek word for gullet (λαιμός), referring to her habit of devouring children.In the myth, Lamia is a mistress of the god Zeus, causing Zeus’ wife, Hera, to kill all of Lamia’s children (except for Scylla) and transform her into a monster that hunts and devours the children of others.Her head still remained that of a beautiful enchantress but her body is that of an animal which has the claws of a cat in its front legs and a cow’s cloven hooves at the back. Some ancient writings describe her with a serpentine lower body. Lamia was cursed with the inability to close her eyes so that she would always obsess over the image of her dead children,Zeus then gave her the ability to remove her eyes.

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