Feminine Beasts
Medusa had two sisters. They were really ugly with snouts, bulging eyes and purple tongues. They had bronze claws and green scaly wings. but Medusa was different she was beautiful, but poisonous snakes fell from her hair. she was the most terrible of the three, for any one that looked or even took a glimpse of her face got turned to stone. All around her cave were statues of people that had been turned to stone. Perseus was a Greek youth who was very brave, handsome and very proud because his father was Zeus himself. Perseus boasted that he would bring the head of Medusa. Zeus loved his son a lot so he got the help of Olympus. Hermes gave Perseus winged sandles in case he needed to fly, Athena the goddess of wisdom gave him a shield so that he didn't have to look at Medusa to kill her. From the nymphs of the north he recived a cap that made him invisible. He flew to their cave on his magic sandals. When he got there he saw all of the statues he put the cap of invisibility on and came up behind Medusa and sliced her head off. Once he flew back home with Medusa's head he presented it to Athena and forever after that the goddess wore her horribile head on her breastplate.
Sphinx had a head of a Human and a body of a Lion. she also had wings of an Eagle and a tail of a Serpent. Her father was Orthus and her mother was either Echidna or Chimera. she lived out side of the city Thebes and asked a riddle to people for them to pass if they did not answer correctly she ate them. Oedipus managed to answer correctly he replied "the man", who crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two as an adult, and needs a walking cane when old. there was a second riddle following the first " there are two sisters, one gives birth to the other, who in turns gives birth to the first. who are they?" the correct answer is day and night, two words that are both feminine in the Greek language. After Oedipus correctly answered both questions, sphinx killed herself, either by throwing herself off the rock on which she rested, or by devouring herself.
Echidna was a half-woman, half-snake creature in Greek mythology, also known as the "Mother of all monsters", as she gave birth to most of the Greek mythical monsters . She was the wife of Tyfoon, who was the "Father of all monsters". Both she and her husband were the children of Gaia and Tartarus. Echidna was killed by Argus Panoptes while she was sleeping in her cave.
Some of the most famous children of Echidna and Typhon were Cerberus, the Lernaean Hydra, the Gorgon sisters. The best known was Medusa and the Chimera. All of Echidas kids were quite vicious and were scary.