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- Nut - MythopediaOverview. Daughter of Tefnut and Shu, and granddaughter of Ra himself, Nut was the Egyptian goddess of the sky. In a reversal of mythological gendering tropes, her husband Geb was the god of the earth. Nut was tremendously important to the ancient Egyptians, as she used her body to keep Nun’s crushing waters away from the earth’s surface.
- Argus Panoptes – MythopediaAvi Kapach is a writer, scholar, and educator who received his PhD in Classics from Brown University. Argus was a monster whose numerous eyes and ability to survive without sleep earned him the moniker “Panoptes,” meaning “all-seeing.”. Hera appointed him the guardian of her husband’s lover Io, whom she had transformed into a cow.
- Minotaur - MythopediaThe Minotaur was a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man. Pasiphae, the wife of the Cretan king Minos, had fallen in love with the Cretan Bull and devised a way to couple with it; the Minotaur was the result of that union. It was imprisoned in a huge maze called the Labyrinth, where it received regular sacrifices of young men ...
- Hydra - MythopediaThe Hydra, also called the Lernean Hydra (because it lived near Lerna in Greece), was part of a brood of ancient mythical monsters. Its parents were the creatures Typhoeus and Echidna, and its siblings included other multi-headed beasts, such as Cerberus and the Chimera. The Hydra itself was a serpent with numerous heads (the exact number ...
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