Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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The myth of the Erymanthian Boar: a gigantic savage wild pig that ravaged Mount Erymanthus, captured alive in deep snow by Heracles, and carried back to
The myth of the Ichthyocentaurs: gentle sea-centaurs with a man's torso, horse's forelegs and fish's tail. The brothers Aphros and Bythos, half-brothers
The myth of the Laestrygonians: a race of giant man-eating cannibals ruled by King Antiphates who destroyed eleven of Odysseus' ships in their
The myth of the Onocentaur: a hybrid with the upper body of a man and the body of a donkey, the asinine cousin of the horse-centaur, moralised in the
The myth of the Stymphalian Birds: a flock of monstrous man-eating birds with bronze beaks and dart-like feathers infesting Lake Stymphalia, the sixth
The myth of the Naga: the divine serpent-beings of Hindu and wider Indian myth, semi-divine half-human half-serpent beings of immense power, beauty and
The myth of Stheno: the eldest, immortal Gorgon sister of Medusa, said to be the deadliest of the three, who pursued Perseus after he slew the only mortal
The myth of the Graeae: the three grey-haired witch-sisters of the Gorgons who shared a single eye and tooth, robbed by Perseus at the moment of exchange
The myth of Campe: the monstrous composite she-dragon Cronus set to guard the Cyclopes and Hundred-Handers in Tartarus, slain by Zeus to free the allies
The myth of the Amphisbaena: the venomous serpent with a head at each end, born of Medusa's blood, that moves in either direction and can never be
