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| - Most mythes agree that the hydra is a sea monster with up to one hundred heads and one immortal head that can not be harmed by any weapon in the center of it's group of heads. he has webbed, feet a serpent tail and a thick, strong body.
- The Lernaean Hydra was a Greek Monster that had many heads, and each time a head was cut off, two would grow in its place. It is generally said to have eight mortal heads, and one immortal head. This head could not be harmed by any weapon. There were also other Hydra, called Hydrae, that had some physical differences. They might be siblings of the Lernaean Hydra. The Lernaean Hydra is the daughter of the monsters Typhon and Ekhidna. It had the body of a huge hairless dog.
- The Lernaean Hydra was a monster and the daughter of Typhon and Echidna. She was born before Typhon's 100-year imprisonment and would later fall victim to Hera's influence. When Hercules and Iolaus first encountered this Hydra, it was in the form of a young girl. As a child, she was known for being a good knitter (a feat she probably accomplished in her human state given her real biology) Before she encountered Hercules, she was known for terrorizing the Lyrians. At some point before her death, the Lernaean Hydra managed to propagate herself, spawning many other hydras.
- Although it is never seen, it is safe to assume that the Hydra has a long serpent-like body and is often described as either a bipedal or a quadruped. It starts with only one head (or more depending the version of the myth), but can easily grow some more.
- The Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna (Theogony, 313), both of whom were noisome offspring of the earth goddess Gaia.
- The Hydra (also known as the Lernaean Hydra) was a Greek mythological serpent with any number of heads (usually nine, as it was known to possess). Each time a head was cut off, two new heads regenerated in its place immediately. The middle and dominant Hydra head (the front and biggest) was immortal and breathed fire. This giant serpent's other heads possessed poisonous breath in addition to poisonous and acidic blood. Its lair was in the lake of Lerna in the Argolid. Beneath the lake was an entrance to the Underworld, which the Hydra guarded. The Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna. It was slain by Hercules and his nephew Iolaus. It is usually depicted as being from anywhere between 7 and 25 metres long and being around 6 to 13 metres tall. This is not correct or incorrect as t
- The Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna (Theogony, 313), both of whom were noisome offspring of the earth goddess Gaia The Second Labour of Heracles After slaying the Nemean lion, Eurystheus sent Heracles to slay the Hydra, which Hera had raised just to slay Heracles. Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna, where the Hydra dwelt, Heracles covered his mouth and nose with a cloth to protect himself from the poisonous fumes. He fired flaming arrows into the Hydra's lair, the spring of Amymone, a deep cave that it only came out of to terrorize neighboring villages.[4] He then confronted the Hydra, wielding a harvesting sickle (according to some early vase-paintings), a sword or his famed club. Ruck and Staples (1994: 170) have pointed out that the chthonic creature's reaction was bo
- In Greek mythology, the Lernaean Hydra (Greek: Λερναία Ὕδρα (help·info)) was an ancient nameless chthonic water beast, with singing traits, (as its name evinces) that possessed many heads (around a million)— the poets mention more heads than the vase-painters could paint, and for each head cut off it grew two more — and poisonous breath so virulent even her tracks were deadly.The Hydra of Lerna was killed by Heracles as the
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