"mission that he deemed impossible: to kill the Chimera, living in neighboring Caria. The Chimera was a fire-breathing monster consisting of the body of a goat, the head of a lion and the tail of a serpent. This monster had terrorized the nearby countryside. On his way he encountered the famous Corinthian seer Polyeidos, who gave him advice about his oncoming battle. Polyeidos told Bellerophon that he would have need of Pegasus. To obtain the services of the untamed winged horse, Polyeidos told Bellerophon to sleep in the temple of Athena. While Bellerophon slept, he dreamed that Athena set a"
"Chimera (mythology) The Chimera ( or , also Chimaera (""Chimæra""); Greek: , ""Chímaira"" ""she-goat"") was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of more than one animal. It is usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat arising from its back, and a tail that might end with a snake's head, and was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra. The term ""chimera"" has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with"
"the mother of Chimaera who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire. Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay."" The author of the ""Bibliotheca"" concurs: descriptions agree that she breathed fire. The Chimera is generally considered to have been female (see the quotation from Hesiod above) despite the mane adorning her head, the inclusion of a close mane often was depicted on lionesses, but the ears always were visible"
"and magically causes a fire to burn brightly. Within the fire a skeletal being reaches out and takes Kāne Milohai's heart from Zeus' hand. The heart's substance then engulfs the fiery skeleton and forms a body. Zeus then presents the new being, Achilles, as the Gargarean's new leader. To serve as Achilles' personal transport, Zeus also created a massive and powerful elephant named Mysia who has two trunks, two mouths, three glowing eyes, an impenetrable hide, and the ability to walk on air. After attacking several countries and disrupting a United Nations assembly, Wonder Woman is informed of their existence"
"woman, the lower body of a dragon, a massive scorpion's tail full of venom, snakes around her ankles, and 50 grisly heads of various creatures (wolves, snakes, bears, lions...) bubbling around her waist. Her fingernails were ""curved like a crooktalon sickle"", and she possessed black wings on her back. Campe In Greek mythology, Campe or Kampe ( ""crooked""; confer καμπή ""a twist, a bend"") is the name of a fearsome chthonic drakaina (she-dragon). Called the ""Nymph of Tartarus"" (Ταρταρία νύμφη), Campe was given the task of guarding the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes in Tartarus, by Cronus, leader of the Titans."
"headed serpentine swamp monster is said to be a dragon, being killed by Heracles later, but the matter if he is a true dragon or not is still over controversy. Dragons are usually shown in modern times with a body more like a huge lizard, or a snake with two pairs of lizard-type legs, and able to emit fire from their mouths. This traces back to the continental dragon, commonly referred to as a fire-breathing dragon. The continental, like many other European dragons, has bat-like wings growing from its back. In Western folklore, dragon-like creatures and christian dragons are usually"
"Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons) Tiamat is a supremely strong and a powerful 5-headed draconic goddess in the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" role-playing game. The name is taken from Tiamat, a goddess in ancient Mesopotamian mythology. She is the queen and mother of evil dragons and a member of the default pantheon of ""D&D"" gods. Her symbol is a five-headed dragon. Tiamat was also named as one of the greatest villains in ""D&D"" history in ""Dragon"" #359, the magazine's final print issue. David M. Ewalt of ""Forbes"" calls Tiamat ""the most fearsome dragon in ""D&D""`s history"". The character was introduced to the"
"marilith appeared under the ""demon"" heading in Paizo Publishing's book ""Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary"" (2009), on page 63, where they are defined as demons created from souls guilty of the sin of pride. Marilith A marilith is a fictional creature in the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" fantasy role-playing game. A marilith is depicted as a powerful, six-armed female demon with the lower body of a snake. Mariliths are inspired by Hindu mythology, where gods and demons frequently have multiple heads and arms. In their first appearances, as part of the original ""Dungeons & Dragons"" (1974) and ""Advanced Dungeons & Dragons"", mariliths"
"sculpture was likely created as a votive offering to the Etruscan god Tinia. According to Greek mythology the Chimera or ""she-goat"" was a monstrous, fire-breathing hybrid creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, created by the binding of multiple animal parts to create a singular unnatural creature. As the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, the Chimera ravaged the lands of Lycia at a disastrous pace. Distressed by the destruction of his lands, the king of Lycia, Iobates, ordered a young warrior named Bellerophon to slay the dreaded Chimera, also as a favor to a neighboring king, Proetus. Proteus wanted Bellerophon dead"
"Drakaina (mythology) In Greek mythology, a drakaina () is a female serpent or dragon, sometimes with humanlike features. Examples of the Drakaina included Campe, Delphyne, Echidna and Sybaris. Python, slain by Apollo, and the earliest representations of Delphyne are shown as simply gigantic serpents, similar to other Greek dragons. However, although the word ""drakaina"" is literally the feminine form of ""drakon"" (Ancient Greek for dragon or serpent), most drakainas had some features of a human woman. Lamia, Campe, Echidna, and many representations of Ceto, Scylla and Delphyne had the head and torso of a woman. The drakaina was a monster"
"Marilith A marilith is a fictional creature in the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" fantasy role-playing game. A marilith is depicted as a powerful, six-armed female demon with the lower body of a snake. Mariliths are inspired by Hindu mythology, where gods and demons frequently have multiple heads and arms. In their first appearances, as part of the original ""Dungeons & Dragons"" (1974) and ""Advanced Dungeons & Dragons"", mariliths were known as type V demons, with marilith being a sample name. From second edition ""AD&D"" and onwards they are listed as mariliths. The type V demon appeared under the demon entry in"
"tear with lion fangs, and with a dragon's head that can bite or breathe fire. The chimera appears in the first edition ""Monster Manual"" (1977), where it is described as a three-headed creature that can bite with its lion head, gore with its goat head, and breathe fire with its dragon head. A relative of both the chimera and the gorgon, the gorgimera first appeared in the module ""The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth"" (1982). The gorgimera next appeared in ""Monster Manual II"" (1983). The chimera is further detailed in ""Dragon"" #94 (February 1985), in ""The Ecology of the Chimera,"" by"
"breathe fire and the animal's rear is serpent-like, begins with such confidence that Marilyn Low Schmitt is convinced there must be unrecognized or undiscovered local precursors. Two vase-painters employed the motif so consistently they are given the pseudonyms the Bellerophon Painter and the Chimaera Painter. A fire-breathing lioness was one of the earliest of solar and war deities in Ancient Egypt (representations from 3000 years prior to the Greek) and influences are feasible. The lioness represented the war goddess and protector of both cultures that would unite as Ancient Egypt. Sekhmet was one of the dominant deities in upper Egypt"
"woman, who he thought was eating live coals, the Flying Head left and bothered them no more. An alternate version of this part of the legend says that, rather than seeing a woman eating acorns and thinking she was eating live coals, the Flying Head stole live coals from her and tried to eat them, thinking they were acorns. The results of course disastrous, the Flying Head flees in agony, never to be seen again. Flying Head The Flying Head (also known as ""Big Head"") is a cannibalistic monster or spirit from Iroquois and Wyandot mythology. According to folklore, the"
"a lion, and a set of dragon wings. The beast has three heads: a horned goat, a lioness, and a dragon. The dragon head can be black, blue, green, red, or white, and has a breath weapon appropriate to the color. They rarely mate; their creation is the result of ""a dark mystery better left unexplained"", according to the Second Edition ""Monstrous Manual"". The chimera, being a hybrid, combines the preferences of the lion, the goat, and the dragon in its habitat, society and ecology. The dragonish part of its nature gives the chimera a distinct preference for caves as"
"the fifth edition ""Monster Manual"" (2014). A cockatrice has the head and body of a rooster, bat wings, and the long tail of a lizard. The pyrolisk is a similar creature, though instead of petrification, it can cause other creatures to burst into flame. In the Eberron campaign setting, the cockatrice is the heraldic beast of the dragonmarked House Sivis. The cockatrice appeared in Paizo Publishing's book ""Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary"" (2009), on page 48. Cockatrice (Dungeons & Dragons) In the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" fantasy roleplaying game, the cockatrice is a small avian magical beast. Any creature that a cockatrice"
"bit her ten tongues. She was clad in space except a girdle of severed arms and a garland of skulls. She was seated on a burning funeral pyre and cackled in a ghastly manner. She was armed with cleaver, trident, discus, arrow, shield, severed head, skull-cup, conch-shell, cross-bow and a club. She was collecting blood dripping from the severed head in the skull-cup and sipped it while eating carrion. Kushmanda named her Mahakali. From the glance of Kushmanda’s third eye, a ferocious lady with complexion of lava was created. She had eighteen arms. She was clad in saffron clothes and"
"a serpentine body from the waist down. One source states simply that she is a daughter of the goddess Hecate. Another, that Lamia was subsequently cursed by the goddess Hera to have stillborn children because of her association with Zeus; alternatively, Hera slew all of Lamia's children (except Scylla) in anger that Lamia slept with her husband, Zeus. The grief caused Lamia to turn into a monster that took revenge on mothers by stealing their children and devouring them. Lamia had a vicious sexual appetite that matched her cannibalistic appetite for children. She was notorious for being a vampiric spirit"
"Unhcegila In Lakota mythology, Unk Cekula (uŋȟčéǧila or uŋkčéǧila) is a serpentoid creature which was responsible for many unexplained disappearances and deaths. a Lakota Sioux Serpent named Unk Cekula, pronounced (Unc-Check-Yula). Her male counterpart is known as ""Unk Tehi"". She was described at first as having no real shape or form; she had eyes of fire, and a fanged mouth that was shrouded in a smoky or cloudy mass. As time went on further, her form was exposed as being massive, with a long scaly body whose natural armor was almost impenetrable. Her eyes burned with wrathful hunger, her claws"
"Manticore (Dungeons & Dragons) In the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" fantasy role-playing game, the manticore is a legendary creature with the body of a lion, dragon wings, and humanoid head. It is based on the mythological manticore. The manticore was one of the earliest creatures introduced in the ""D&D"" game. The manticore was one of the first monsters introduced in the earliest edition of the game, in the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" ""white box"" set (1974), where they were described as huge, lion-bodied monstrosities with a tail full of spikes that could be fired. The manticore appears in the first edition ""Monster"
"dragon motif on his sword belt and an emblem of a three-headed dragon on his breast plate. In lines 820–880 of the ""Theogony"", a Greek poem written in the seventh century BC by the Boeotian poet Hesiod, the Greek god Zeus battles the monster Typhon, who has one hundred serpent heads that breathe fire and speak all kinds of frightening animal noises. Zeus scorches all of Typhon's heads with his lightning bolts and then hurls Typhon into Tartarus. In the ""Homeric Hymn to Apollo"", the god Apollo uses his poisoned arrows to slay the serpent Python, who has been causing"
"a dragon, the hindquarters of a goat, and a snake-headed tail, while also possessing the power of speech. Its history of being the offspring of Echidna and being slain by Bellerophon is still mentioned. At some point, the Chimera was restored to life by Hera to guard the caverns underneath New Olympus. It was accompanied in this job by a Cyclops and some Skeleton Warriors. The Chimera encountered the Agents of Atlas. When it didn't see that they were Olympians, Chimera breathed fire at them, sparking a fight between the heroes and the minions of Hera. Gorilla-Man forced the chimera"
"Demons"", the vouivre is depicted as a female creature with dazzling, green scales which emanate sound as the vouivre flies. The vouivre is depicted as greedy, her head crowned with pearls and a golden ring about her tail. The beast in this story stayed in a cave for most of her time, then left to bathe only for a few minutes. In Steve Alten's ""The Loch"" the Loch Ness Monster is originally thought to be a guivre which got into Loch Ness through Moray Firth. The guiuvres were said to be a species of giant eel, a predecessor to the"
"beautiful young women to seduce, protect or terrify the people around them as their whim dictates. Yuxa Yuxa (""Yuxa Yilan"", Cyrillic: ""Юха елан"", Tatar: ""Юха-кыз"", Bashkort: ""Юха"", Azerbaijanese: ""Yuvxa"", Turkish: ""Yuvha""), or Sly Snake, is a legendary creature that figures in Tatar folklore. According to popular beliefs, every 100-year-old snake is transformed into Yuxa. In fairy tales, Yuxa is described as a beautiful damsel who would marry men in order to beget offspring. Yuxa sometimes spelled Yuha, is a legendary creature with a dragon's head, which may be said to breathe fire or possess a venomous bite, a reptilian body,"
"Ammit Ammit (; , ""devourer of the dead""; also rendered Ammut or Ahemait) was a demoness and goddess in ancient Egyptian religion with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile—the three largest ""man-eating"" animals known to ancient Egyptians. A funerary deity, her titles included ""Devourer of the Dead"", ""Eater of Hearts"", and ""Great of Death"". Ammit lived near the scales of justice in Duat, the Egyptian underworld. In the Hall of Two Truths, Anubis weighed the heart of a person against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth, which was depicted as an ostrich feather (the feather"
"Echidna (mythology) In Greek mythology, Echidna (; , ""She-Viper"") was a monster, half-woman and half-snake, who lived alone in a cave. She was the mate of the fearsome monster Typhon and was the mother of monsters, including many of the most famous monsters of Greek myth. Echidna's family tree varies by author. The oldest genealogy relating to Echidna, Hesiod's ""Theogony"" (c. 8th – 7th century BC), is unclear on several points. According to Hesiod, Echidna was born to a ""she"" who was probably meant by Hesiod to be the sea goddess Ceto, making Echidna's likely father the sea god Phorcys;"
"Campe In Greek mythology, Campe or Kampe ( ""crooked""; confer καμπή ""a twist, a bend"") is the name of a fearsome chthonic drakaina (she-dragon). Called the ""Nymph of Tartarus"" (Ταρταρία νύμφη), Campe was given the task of guarding the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes in Tartarus, by Cronus, leader of the Titans. She was killed by the eldest gods led by Zeus when he freed the Cyclopes to help him in the battle with the Titans. Campe was a half-dragon with a beautiful woman's head and upper body and a scorpion-like tail. Nonnus (""Dionysiaca"" 18.23–264) gives the most elaborated description of"
"of Typhon and Echidna. It had poisonous breath and blood so virulent that even its scent was deadly. The hydra possessed many heads, the exact number of which varies according to the source. Later versions of the Hydra story add a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow two heads. Heracles required the assistance of his cousin Iolaus to cut off all of the monster's heads and burn the neck using sword and fire. The oldest extant Hydra narrative appears in Hesiod's ""Theogony"", while the oldest images of the monster are found on"
"in the Pit of Sorrows on the draconic continent of Argonnessen, birthing evil dragonspawn and corrupting the good dragons who watch over her prison. Various monsters called Tiamat, patterned after the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" character, have appeared in other fantasy games, particularly role-playing video games. Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons) Tiamat is a supremely strong and a powerful 5-headed draconic goddess in the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" role-playing game. The name is taken from Tiamat, a goddess in ancient Mesopotamian mythology. She is the queen and mother of evil dragons and a member of the default pantheon of ""D&D"" gods. Her symbol"
"Yuxa Yuxa (""Yuxa Yilan"", Cyrillic: ""Юха елан"", Tatar: ""Юха-кыз"", Bashkort: ""Юха"", Azerbaijanese: ""Yuvxa"", Turkish: ""Yuvha""), or Sly Snake, is a legendary creature that figures in Tatar folklore. According to popular beliefs, every 100-year-old snake is transformed into Yuxa. In fairy tales, Yuxa is described as a beautiful damsel who would marry men in order to beget offspring. Yuxa sometimes spelled Yuha, is a legendary creature with a dragon's head, which may be said to breathe fire or possess a venomous bite, a reptilian body, two legs (sometimes none), and a barbed tail. It can turn into handsome young men and"
"Stheno In Greek mythology, Stheno ( or ; Greek: Σθενώ, English translation: ""forceful""), was the eldest of the Gorgons, vicious female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and ""hair"" made of living venomous snakes. The daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, Stheno was born in the caverns beneath Mount Olympus. She and her sister Euryale were both immortal, and the third sister, Medusa, was mortal. Of the three Gorgons, she was known to be the most independent and ferocious, having killed more men than both of her sisters combined. In Greek mythology, she was transformed into a Gorgon because of standing"
"Amphisbaena The amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae; ) is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end. The creature is alternatively called the amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amfivena, amphivena, or anphivena (the last two being feminine), and is also known as the ""Mother of Ants"". Its name comes from the Greek words ""amphis"", meaning ""both ways"", and ""bainein"", meaning ""to go"". According to Greek mythology, the amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from the Gorgon Medusa's head as Perseus flew over the Libyan Desert with her in his hand, after which Cato's army then encountered it"
"Lamia (Dungeons & Dragons) In the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" fantasy role-playing game, the lamia is a type of fictional monster. The lamia is typically portrayed in the game as a creature with the lower body of a lion, and the upper torso, arms, and head of a human female. A less common type of lamia, the lamia noble, was depicted as having the lower body of a serpent. The lamia was introduced in the first edition ""Advanced Dungeons & Dragons"" game's original ""Monster Manual"" sourcebook, written by Gary Gygax and published in 1977. The lamia also appeared in second edition"