Hecatonchires In The Odyssey

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The Hecatonchires or Centimanus is a Greek monster with 100 hands and 50 heads.
The Hecatonchires is back to the first creatures of earth that eventually were mankind. They were children of Mother Earth and Father Heaven. Father Heaven was a poor father and hated the Hecatonchires. Even though they were his sons, he imprisoned each one within the Earth.
Mother Earth and Father Heaven are intervened with the Hecatonchires. They are the ones who gave birth to them starting the first races of monsters.

They are half-horse, the body of the horse, and half-human with a torso up of a rude jock.
One of the famous stories told of Hercules took some centaur wine and got into a huge brawl over it. However, one of the centaurs, Chiron, was known …show more content…

Odysseus, advised by Circe, plugged the crew's ears with wax and ordered them to tie him on the mast of the ship. Also, Odysseus told them that no matter how much he begged, they should not untie him. When they passed near their island, Odysseus started begging his shipmates to let him go, but none heard him. Instead, they tied him even more. After they passed, Odysseus told them that they were now in safe (Creatures).
Odysseus made the Sirens famous, because of how they tried to lure the sailors in the Odyssey.

The snake-haired and snake-bodied person that was created in its mother's image. Its stare could turn a person to stone.
Medusa, Stheno and Euryale were the three Gorgon sisters, but only Medusa was mortal. King Polydectes of Seriphos once commanded the hero Perseus to fetch her head. He accomplished this with help from gods who gave him a reflective shield, curved sword, winged boots and a helm of invisibility. When he decapitated Medusa, two creatures sprang forth from the wound which were a winged horse, Pegasus, and the giant, Chrysaor. Perseus left with the head in a sack and her two angry sisters chasing him.
The hero Perseus slayed Medusa, one of the