Re: I hate the look of the Mother of Serpents
I think there's some confusion going around over whether Scylla or Charybdis was the woman with the lower body with the dog's heads:
According to all my non-Dominions sources (and I've been studying Greek myth for the past 25 years or so), Charybdis was the whirlpool monster, whereas it was actually Scylla that had the dog's heads. They were both apparently nymphs, and both were transformed into monsters and set to guard the Strait of Messina, so it's easy to get confused on this point.
Drakaina-again, according to my sources-had the upper body of a beautiful nymph, and the lower body of a sea serpent/dragon. Examples: Echidna, Ceto.
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Last edited by HoneyBadger; August 24th, 2008 at 02:39 AM..
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