The Hydr The Ancient Greek Myth

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The Hydra
You have just taken a hike through the woods and then you discover a salt water lake. Seeing a strange portal, curious, you swim towards it. You go on to the miniscule island that the portal is on. As you start to get near the portal a thick fog starts to form and you can’t see anything. The ground starts to tremble at your feet as a gigantic figure rises from the shadows. As the gigantic shadow looms over you it starts to stomp towards you, you are about to fall down as it gets closer. It stops moving, it is so close you can touch it. It lets out a screech and it spits out poisonous gas at you. You try to swim away the poison starts to disintegrate your skin. It puts you in agonizing pain, as you swim away it feels like blood is rushing out of your body. You start to faint and you can’t feel your body. When you finally faint and all of the pain goes away while your body turns into nothing. This is what the mythical creature Hydra does: He protects the portal to the underworld killing anything that tries to get near it. There are many myths surround the mythical Hydra and I will teach you about them.
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Typhon try to rule of the cosmos by defeating Zeus. According to (www.quora.com) “Typhon challenged Zeus for rule of the cosmos. Typhon really wanted to take over the cosmos he even started a war over it. Some of the monster that Typhon and Echidna also had other than the Hydra where Nemean Lion, Orthos, Cerberus, Chimaira. According to (www.greek-gods.info) His family is Orthos, a two-headed dog, Cerberus, a three-headed dog, Lernaean Hydra, a chthonic, serpent-like creature with numerous heads and Chimaira, an awful creature with the body of a goat, the tail of a snake or dragon and the head of a lion. This was not the only family the Hydra had. He was raised by someone else with dark

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