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The Chimaera is one of the most famous female “MONSTERS” from Greek mythology.Greek sailors considered her as had luck considering she usually appeared right before disasters. The Chimaera looks like tons of different animals. She demonstrates the head of a fire breathing lion and a goat's head on her back and her tail was the head of a serpent. A few people have claimed that the Chimaera was raised by a man by the name of Amisodorus. However, some people believe that a half woman and half monster who goes by the name of Echidna gave birth to the Chimaera.

The Chimera usually hung out with the sailors, ships and the docs. The Chimaera moved to “Lycia”. Sometimes volcanoes could erupt and they thought that it was the chimaera breathing fire across Lycia. Some people believe that the Chimaera mated with her brother and had two children New men and Sphinx. Newman was an massive lion that went out and terrorized the land of Nemea. Sphinx had a human head with bird wings and a body of a lion who would ask people riddles and if you did not answer
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Proetus secretly asked Lobates to kill Bellerophon. But he did not want to start a war so he Bellerophon to kill the Chimaera, which he thought for a long time about an excellent strategy. No matter what though no one could kill the Chimaera because of how strong she was and how far she could breathe her fire out. But Bellerophon gained some info about another strange hybrid of creatures named Pegasus. Pegasus had wings and the body of a horse. Later a Greek goddess sent Pegasus to Bellerophon. Bellerophon climbed on Pegasus and flew off. By the time the Chimaera looked up Bellerophon had already put a chunk of lead the end of his spear and a soon as the Chimaera opened his mouth to blow out some fire Bellerophon had already thrown his spear into the chimaeras throat and he later

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