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Some Monsters

Typhon Father of all Monsters

Echidna Mother of all Monsters

Strongest of all Monsters

Together they are unstoppable

Orthrus a two-headed hound

Sphinx half human half lion who slays anybody who wrongly answer her riddles

Nemean Lion gifted with impenetrable skin

Cerberus three-headed dog guarding Hell's gates

Ladon drakon guarding the Garden of the Hesperides' golden apples

Lernaean Hydra has many heads that multiplied when cut off

Caucasian Eagle eats Prometheus' liver

Chimera fire-breathing hybrid creature body of a lion, head of a goat, and a snake's head as a tail

Call them Monsters

But they did not choose

What people calls them

They could be nice

But no one knows

For labels can not be taken away

Born with it

Live with it

Die for it

Arachne challenged the wrong person and was cursed with a body of a spider

Arion immortal speaking horse

Centaurs half-man, half horse, said to be primal and aggressive

Cyclops giant one-eyed monsters, lawless creatures

Harpies birds with human females' faces, agents of punishment

Lamia child-devouring Queen, beauty was her downfall

Medusa

beautiful maiden with golden hair

priestess of Athena but fell in love with Poseidon

Broke her vow

And Athena cursed her

With snakes for hair

Eyes that turns all who gazes into stone

The Gorgon was born

Her sisters Stheno and Euryale too

Perseus ended her

Minotaur

Head of a bull body of a human

Birthed by the Queen

Imprisoned by King Minos

Lived in Daedalus' labyrinth

Killed by Theseus

Pegasus

A beautiful, pure white stallion armed with wings

Born from Medusa's blood

As Perseus ended her

Polyphemus

Son of Poseidon

Punished by Zeus

Scylla

Sea monster

Living perched on rocks of a narrow water channel

Charybdis

Sea monster

Whirlpool opposite of Scylla

Ships caught between both

Ended up sunken or eaten

The Sirens

Beautiful deadly singing creatures

Luring those who passed by to their deaths

Half woman, half bird

Labels made them who they are

Created and then rejected

Blamed for existing

Yet no one blamed their creators