Poisoned Blood - The blood of the Hydra was known to be a powerful poison. However, this regeneration could be cancelled out if someone were to cauterize the wound. This gave it a theoretically infinite amount of heads. Regeneration - With all other heads, the Hydra would grow two for every one that was cut off. The only way Heracles was able to kill this head was to cut it off with a golden sword, gifted to him by Athena. By Avi Kapach 9 min read Last updated on Apr. It lived in the swamps of Lerna in Greece, where it terrorized the region’s inhabitants until it was slain by the mighty Heracles. Immortality - The largest of the Hydra's head is immortal, and cannot be damaged by conventional weapons. The Hydra, one of the children of the mysterious monsters Typhoeus and Echidna, was a creature with multiple serpent heads. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid. Common depictions of the hydra give the creature a thick, strong body, a serpentine tail and webbed feet. The Lernaean Hydra or Hydra, was a serpentine water monster in Greek and Roman mythology. Most myths agree that the hydra is a sea monster with many heads (according to the poets, more heads than the vase-painters could paint), one of which was immortal. 
Believed by some to be a type of dragon, the Hydra would meet its end at the hands of Heracles, as the second of his Twelve Labours. It had many heads and every time someone would cut off one of them, two more heads would grow out of. Most of the time, it stayed in the spring of Amymone, a deep cave, only coming out to terrorize neighboring villages. The Lernaean Hydra was a monster in Greek mythology.
According to the myth, beneath the lake was an entrance to the Underworld, and the Hydra was it's guardian. The Hydra is a monstrous, multi-headed reptile from the myths of Ancient Greece.
0 kommentar(er)
