Medusa

This is a picture of Medusa who was one the three gorgon sisters. She was the most beautiful amongst them and thus attracted the attention of Poseidon. She was seduced by Poseidon in a Temple of Athena. Athena,angered, punished her by making her disgusting looking with snakes instead of hairs.

Medusa was so terrifying that whoever saw her face turned into stone. She was beheaded by Perseus while sleeping. The photo describes Medusa after she was beheaded. When her blood spilled on the ground two creatures were born. One was the winged horse Pegasus and the other was Chrysaor.

The Sphinx

This is the Sphinx usually depicted with the body of a lion or a lioness and with the head of a human. It was an Egyptian monster although it is said that it is one of the monsters of Echidna and Typhon. The Ancient Greeks called it the "strangler". The picture on the left is the Greek Sphinx.

In Egyptian mythology is usually depicted with the body of a lion and a head of a human. Sometimes the head maybe of a falcon, hawk or a ram.
They were related to the deity Sekhmet which had a lion's head and was the god of warfare. The Sphinx had the role of temple guardians or tomb guardians. The Great Sphinx of Giza were on such example.

Other popular sphinxes are the one who bears the head of pharaoh Hatsheput and the sphinx of Memphis.

The Egyptian Sphinxes were guardians of temples. As you know there are other Sphinxes throughout the world.


The First picture is the picture of a Greek Sphinx. The Greek Sphinx was also considered as the offapring of Typhon and Echidna. The word "Sphinx" means to strangle. This name may have originated from the lions that strangle their victims to death. In Greek mythology the Sphinx is considered as a creature of bad luck.

The Pegasus

This is of course the mystical son and of Poseidon the sea-god and Medusa the Gorgon.Pegasus. The Pegasus was born when Persus the Greek hero cut Medusa's head like the birth of Athena who also was born out of Zeus's head. There are many other theories reagrding his type of birth, it is also said that he was born from the earth when Medusa's blood spilled on to it, or when medua's blood and the sea foam joined together.

The Pegasus was captured by Bellorophon when he was drinking with a golden bridle that was given to him by Athena. He also killed the Chimera and fought agianst the Amazons. Bellorophon tried to climb mount everest with Pegasus but Zeus did not let him do so and he fell on to the earth when Zeus stunned Pegasus. Then onwards Bellorophon did not see the Pegasus and was made a servant to Zeus. Pegasus had the job of carrying Zeus's thunderbolts to him and was ridden by Eos the goddess of Dawn.

Bellorophon mated with Ocyrrhoe and had two children. Pegasus was immortal, On his last day of life Zeus transformed him into a constellation and it is said that a single feather of him fell in the city of Tarsus.

The Chimera

This is the Chimera. This is also a sibling of Cerberus and the hydra. It lived in Lycia in Asia Minor. It is the strangest monster i have ever seen, with the body parts of a goat, a lion and a snake. Even though there is a mane on it it is considered as a female. In some stories it is said that theChimera mated with her brother orthus and gave birth to the Sphinx and the Nemean lion.

The Chimera was killed by Bellorophon, greek hero who captured the legendary Pegasus. He was commanded to do so by king lobates of Lycia. Since Pegasus could fly, Bellorophon had no trouble killing the Chimera with his arrows. It is also said that he also equipped his spear with a lump of head and melted it with the fiery breath of the chimera which killed the chimera.

The Lemean Lion

This is the picture of Heracles killing the Nemean Lion. The Nemean lion was said to be the sibling of the Hydra and Cerberus or the offspring of Zeus and Selene.It was the first labor of Heracles to kill the Nemean lion and to take its skin.

The lion lived in the village of Nemea, inside a cave. When heracles had many arrows with him to use against it but not knowing that the lion's skin was one of the toughest and the lion itself was immortal he tried in vain with the arrows. Then he blocked the cave entrances and fought the lion with bare hands.

Using his incredible strength he strangled the lion to death. Then he tried to cut the skin but it was too tough even for him. He used the lion's claw to cut it and he was so impressed that he weares it as a cloak. He returned to the king Eurystheus(his cousin who ordered Heracles to do the labor.) He was so impressed that he gave Heracles the the lions invisible pelt.

The Hydra

This is the Hydra the multi-headed, dinosaur looking monster of lerna. This is one of the siblings of Cerberus. It lives in the lake of lerna, where it is the guardian of an entrance to the underworld. The Hydra was killed by Heracles because it was the second labor of his twelve to do do so.

It was not easy to slay the hydra as it had a poisonous breath and heads which grew back with one more as one head is cut.Heracles needed the help of his nephew to defeat it. Everytime one head is cut Heracles's nephew Lolaus burned the open stump, and thus the head could not grow back. The Last head was immortal and Heracles buried it under a rock and used its poison to make his sword or arrow poisonous.The alternative to this is that after cutting off one head he dipped his sword in it and used its venom to burn each head so it couldn't grow back.

The Hydra is my favorite monster because i liked it when i was playing Age Of Mythology.

ZerbereX- All you want to know about Mythological monsters

Mythological creatures have always enchanted and terrified us. If you want to know more about them this is the place where you want to look.

On the left you can see the famous Cerberus of Greek mythology, it is the dog of Hades which guards the door to the underworld. It allows spirits to go in there but allows no spirits to return out of the door of the Erebus(underworld).

The Cerberus is the offspring of Echidna and Typhon two monstrous beings from which most of the Greek monsters came from. Cerberus has three heads and snakes all down his back, also had a snake for a tail, like his sibling the Chimera. It had a brother Orthus which was killed by Greek demi- god and hero Heracles or better known as Hercules. Hercules had his own encounter with the three headed when he was to bring the Hell hound to the living world to complete the last of his Twelve labors.