PEGASUS

In Greek mythology, Pegasus (Greek ) was a winged horse. Pegasus was

the first horse that came to be among the gods. Pegasus was the horse of Zeus,
sovereign, master of Heaven and Earth. Pegasus was born from the blood stream
that flowed when Perseus beheaded Medusa. This was one of the three Gorgon
sisters: the others were Esteno and Euryale. Usually depicted in black or white and
has two wings that let you fly. A feature of the flight is that when performed, move
your legs as if they were running through the air.

KRAKEN
The kraken is a sea creature of Scandinavian and Finnish mythology commonly described as a kind of
giant octopus or squid, emerging from the depths, attacking ships and sailors devoured. The legend may
actually have originated from sightings of real giant squid that have an estimated 13 to 15 feet long,
including tentacles.

SATYR
In Greek mythology, a satyr (UK /st/, US /setr/, Greek satyros,
pronounced [styros])[1] is one of a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus with goatlike (caprine) features, including a goat-tail, goat-like ears, and sometimes a goat-like
phallus. By contrast, in Roman Mythology there is a similar concept with goat-like features,
the faun being half-man, half-goat. Greek-speaking Romans often use the Greek term
saturos when referring to the Latin faunus, and eventually syncretize the two. The female
"Satyresses" were a late invention of poets that roamed the woods and mountains. [2] In
myths they are often associated with pipe-playing.
Mythology

Greek mythology

Grouping

Legendary creature

Sub-grouping

Hybrid

Country

Greece

Habitat

Woodland and mountains

Similar creatures

Minotaur, Centaur, Harpy

MEDUSA
In Greek mythology Medusa (Greek: (Mdousa), "guardian, protectress")[1] was a monster, a
Gorgon, generally described as having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes
in place of hair. Gazing directly upon her would turn onlookers to stone. Most sources describe her as the
daughter of Phorcys and Ceto,[2] though the author Hyginus (Fabulae, 151) interposes a generation and
gives Medusa another chthonic pair as parents.[3]
Medusa was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head as a weapon[4] until he gave it to
the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa
appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion.

Consort

Poseidon

Parents

Phorcys and Ceto

Siblings

The Hesperides, Stheno, Euryale, The Graea,

Thoosa, Scylla, and Ladon

Children Pegasus and Chrysaor

SPHINX
A sphinx (Greek: /sphinx, Botian: /Phix) is a mythical creature with, as a minimum, the body
of a lion and a human head.
In Greek tradition, it has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face of a woman. She is
mythicised as treacherous and merciless. Those who cannot answer her riddle suffer a fate typical in such
mythological stories, as they are killed and eaten by this ravenous monster.[1] Unlike the Greek sphinx
which was a woman, the Egyptian sphinx is typically shown as a man (an androsphinx). In addition, the
Egyptian sphinx was viewed as benevolent in contrast to the malevolent Greek version and was thought
of as a guardian often flanking the entrances to temples.

Mythology

Eurasian

Grouping

Legendary creatures

Sub-grouping

Mythological hybrids

Similar creatures

Griffin

MINOTAUR
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (/mant/,[1] /mntr/;[2] Ancient Greek:
[min tauu ros], Latin: Minotaurus, Etruscan evrumine), was a creature with the head of a
bull on the body of a man[3] or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, "part man and part bull".
[4]
He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like
construction[5] designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of
King Minos of Crete. The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.
Mythology

Greek

Grouping

mythological creature

Parents

Cretan Bull and Pasipha

Region

Crete

CYCLOPS
A cyclops (/saklps/; Greek: , Kuklps; plural cyclopes /saklopiz/; Greek:
, Kuklpes), in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a
primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. [1] The name
is widely thought to mean "circle-eyed".[2]
Hesiod described one group of cyclopes and the epic poet Homer described another; other
accounts were written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet
Virgil. In Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus releases three Cyclopes, the sons of Uranus and Gaia,
from the dark pit of Tartarus. They provide Zeus' thunderbolt, Hades' helmet of invisibility,
and Poseidon's trident, and the gods use these weapons to defeat the Titans. In a famous
episode of Homer's Odyssey, the hero Odysseus encounters the cyclops Polyphemus, the
son of Poseidon and Thoosa (a nereid), who lives with his fellow Cyclopes in a distant
country. The connection between the two groups has been debated in antiquity and by
modern scholars.[3] It is upon Homer's account that Euripides and Virgil based their accounts
of the mythical creatures.

KAMPE

Campe was a dragon with a woman's head and torso and a scorpion-like tail. Nonnus
(Dionysiaca 18.23264) gives the most elaborated description of her. [1] Joseph Eddy
Fontenrose suggests that for Nonnus Campe is a Greek refiguring of Tiamat and that "she is
Echidna under another name, as Nonnos indicates, calling her Echidnaean Enyo, identifying
her snaky legs with Echidna's", and "a female counterpart of his Typhon".[2]
Campe is generally depicted as being centaurine in form, her lower part being that of a
dragon, with a scorpion's tail, snakes around her ankles, 50 grisly heads of various
creatures (wolves, bears, lions...) bubbling around her waist. She also carried two scimitars,
had snake hair, and possessed wings on her dragon back. More rare depictions describe her
as holding a scythe, being serpentine from the waist down with a scorpion's tail with snake
hair and three animal heads around the waist with wings on her shoulders.

QUIMERA
Imaginary monster, according to the fable, spewing flames and had a lion's head, goat belly and tail of a
dragon

PHOENIX
In Greek mythology, a phoenix or phenix (Ancient Greek phinx) is a long-lived bird that is
cyclically regenerated or reborn. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the
ashes of its predecessor. The phoenix was subsequently adopted as a symbol in Early Christianity.
In his study of the phoenix, R. van der Broek summarizes, that, in the historical record, the phoenix
"could symbolize renewal in general as well as the sun, time, the empire, metempsychosis, consecration,
resurrection, life in the heavenly Paradise, Christ, Mary, virginity, the exceptional man, and certain
aspects of Christian life".[1]

MERMAID
A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a female human and the
tail of a fish.[1] Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the
Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria, in which
the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally
killing her human lover. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as
floods, storms, shipwrecks and drownings. In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the
same tradition), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love
with humans.

HYDRA
In Greek mythology, the Lernaean Hydra (Greek: ) was an ancient serpent-like chthonic
water beast, with reptilian traits (as its name evinces), that possessed many heads the poets mention
more heads than the vase-painters could paint, and for each head cut off it grew two more and

poisonous breath and blood so virulent even its tracks were deadly.[1] The Hydra of Lerna was killed by
Hercules as the second of his Twelve Labours. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, though
archaeology has borne out the myth that the sacred site was older even than the Mycenaean city of Argos
since Lerna was the site of the myth of the Danaids. Beneath the waters was an entrance to the
Underworld, and the Hydra was its guardian.[2]
The Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna (Theogony, 313), both of whom were noisome
offspring of the earth goddess Gaia.[3]

CENTAUR
A centaur (from Greek: , Kntauros) or hippocentaur[1][2][3] is a mythological creature with the
head, arms, and torso of a human and the body and legs of a horse.[4]
In early Attic and Beotian vase-paintings (see below), they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse
attached to them; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso of a human joined at the waist to the
horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be.[citation needed]
This half-human and half-horse composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught
between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in
their battle with the Lapiths (their kin), or conversely as teachers, like Chiron.

Mythology

Greek

Grouping

Legendary creature

Sub-grouping

Hybrid

Region

Greece

Habitat

Land

Similar creatures

Minotaur, satyr, harpy

CERBERUS
Cerberus /srbrs/,[1] or Kerberos, (Greek form: , [kerberos])[2] in Greek and
Roman mythology, is a multi-headed (usually three-headed) dog, or "hellhound" [1][3][4] which
guards the gates of the Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from
ever escaping. Cerberus is featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature

and in works of both ancient and modern art and architecture, although the depiction and
background surrounding Cerberus often differed across various works by different authors
of the era. The most notable difference is the number of its heads: Most sources describe or
depict three heads; others show it with two or even just one; a smaller number of sources
show a variable number, sometimes as many as 50 or even 100.
Mythology

Greek mythology and Roman mythology

Grouping

Legendary creature

Country

Greece, Italy

Habitat

Underworld

EQUIDNA