Psychai
Psychai are the souls or shades of the dead in ancient Greek language and imagination, especially as they pass into…
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Culture or Region: Ancient Greek traditions
Algea
Algea is remembered as the collective Greek personifications of pain, grief and distress, sometimes divided into bodily and emotional forms.…
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Hybris is remembered as the personification and concept of violent arrogance, insulting excess and conduct that disregards rightful limits. Its…
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The Graeae are old from birth. Hesiod places them in the family of Phorcys and Ceto and names Pemphredo and…
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The Hecatoncheires are three primordial sons of Earth and Sky: Cottus, Briareus and Gyges. Each bears one hundred arms and…
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Python is the great serpent associated with Delphi and the older authority of Earth. In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo,…
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Charybdis is not a reef, storm or ordinary whirlpool. She is the sea performing the act of swallowing. Three times…
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Echidna waits in a cave far from gods and mortals, half radiant woman and half enormous serpent. Hesiod does not…
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The Hydra waits at Lerna, where springs, marsh and underworld memory gather beneath the surface. It is not simply a…
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Scylla lives where the ship cannot retreat. Her cave stands high in the strait, opposite Charybdis, and the channel between…
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