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  2. List of Greek mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...

  3. List of Greek mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    The goddess of inevitability, compulsion, and necessity. Χάος (Kháos) Chaos: The personification of nothingness from which all of existence sprang. Depicted as a void. Initially genderless, later on described as female. Χρόνος (Khrónos) Chronos: The god of empirical time, sometimes equated with Aion.

  4. Category:Women in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    Greek goddesses (28 C, 190 P) H. Women of Hades (1 C, 3 P) ... Pages in category "Women in Greek mythology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...

  5. Category:Female legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Female legendary creatures" ... List of female monsters in literature; M. ... (mythological creature) Mormo; Moryana; Muelona; N.

  6. Echidna (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Echidna's family tree varies by author. [4] 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; however the "she" might instead refer to the Oceanid Callirhoe, which ...

  7. These Are the 14 Most Powerful Mythical Creatures ... - AOL

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    9. Chimera. Origin: Greek The mythological Chimera is a terrifying creature that features a fire-breathing lion’s head attached to a goat’s body, ending in a serpent tail. There are varying ...

  8. Medusa - Wikipedia

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    Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon [5] 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.

  9. Lamia - Wikipedia

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    The Kiss of the Enchantress (Isobel Lilian Gloag, c. 1890), inspired by Keats's "Lamia", depicts Lamia as half-serpent, half-woman. Lamia (/ ˈ l eɪ m i ə /; Ancient Greek: Λάμια, romanized: Lámia), in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit or "daimon".