- Chimera
- A hybrid creature in greek mythology
- able to breathe fire and located in Asia Minor
- usually depicted as a lion with a goat head on its back and a tail that ends with a snake's head
- is the sibling of Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra
- Lernaean Hydra
- serpentine monster in greek and roman mythology
- located in lake of Lerna, the entrance to the underworld
- possessed many heads that would regenerate
- had poisonous breath and blood that even the scent was fatal
- Greek underworld
- the place where souls go after death
- has a few main rivers
- the styx, representing hatred
- the archeron, representing pain
- the lethe, representing forgetfulness
- the phlegethon, representing fire
- the cocytus of wailing
- the Oceanus that encircles the world
- Elysium
- the place where souls that were related to gods and other heroes go to rest
- it was the place where the dead who were righteous, heroic, and chosen by the gods could remain after death to live a happy and blissed life
- basically, paradise
Art of a hydra.
Source: Animal-Dream.
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