Stunned by such magic sorcery, the group of courtiers stood aghast; and as they gazed, she touched their faces with her poisoned wand, and at its touch each took the magic form of some wild beast; none kept his proper shape. The setting sun had bathed Tartesus's shore, and [the wife...
"Typhoeus . . . yelled as his warcry the cries of all wild beasts together: the snakes that grew from him waved over his leopard's heads, licked the grim lions' manes, girdled with their curly tails spiral-wise round the bulls' horns, mingled the shooting poison of their long thin t...
It's vastly old, exists all over the Indo-European language spectrum, and is obvious not dissimilar to the noun θηριον (therion), wild beast. Still, the experts assert that our noun was imported into Indo-European, and that averts the attention to the Proto-Semitic root "tawr",...
The god of the wild, the tutelary deity of shepherds, has long been allegorized on numerous levels, from Jesus to Universal Nature; thus, he becomes the emblem of the passionate imagination, of supra-mortal wisdom, according to Douglas Bush. Pan became an iconic character in art and literat...
*First, he must kill the. beast terrorizing Mt. Parnassus: the conquest of Pytho/she-dragon, the nurse of Typhaon (Typhoeus, child of Hera). Apollo tells Python to rot (puthein), which is a play on the Greek word for Python (similar sounds/etymology) ...
he defeated the Nemean Lion; another myth said that they originated as the funeral games of a child named Opheltes. However, they are known to have existed only since the 6th century BC (from 573 BC, or earlier). The winners received a wreath of wild celery leaves from the city of ...
The well-known fable of Beauty and the Beast is a modern version of the myth of the animal husband whose beastly form cannot disguise his noble soul. Sometimes transformations are forced on people by cruel or wicked sorcerers or as punishment for offending the gods. When people voluntarily ...
In Greek mythology the Argus was a beast and son of Arestor with a hundred eyes of which he could only close two at a time. He was placed by Juno to guard Io, whom Jupiter had changed into a heifer. But Mercury, who was sent to carry her off, managed to surprise and kill Argus ...
(and even documentation) in the Bible."As far as Jesus possibly having a dog as a pet, it is highly unlikely. ... In actuality little is written in the New Testament about Jesus' pets per say, but there are some references to wild animals, birds and fish. He is born in a stable...
The Lion of Mount Cithaeron preyed on the flocks of both Amphitryon and Thespius, the king of Thespiae; while staying with the latter, Heracles killed the beast after hunting it ferociously for fifty days straight. Having vanquished the lion, Heracles dressed himself in his skin and ever...