Lernaean Hydra

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That's the Lernaean Hydra that we'll get to.

So this was Ladon, that was outside guarding the Garden of Hesperides, that was where the golden apples were kept.

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Yeah.

So y- you're talking about a hundred-headed snake that's just kind of wedged in in either being killed fashion or something that's just a guard.

Also coming out of the 12 labors of Heracles, you have the, uh, Lernaean Hydra, maybe one of the scariest figures of the whole entire thing.

And we're talking about a, a lion that had an impenetrable hide and all of these different labors that he had to go through.

What about that snake monster we talked about in the beginning? That was his second

labour, the Lernean Hydra.

a massive water serpent with nine venomous heads and breath so toxic it could wilt plants from yards away.

And if you chop one off, two grow back.

What object did Perseus use to look at Medusa safely? Question 3.

How many impossible labours did Heracles have to complete? Here's number 4.

How many heads did the Lernian Hydra originally have? Last question.

What item did Theseus use to escape the Twisting Labyrinth? Great job! Let's see how you did.

Now that dragon was slain.

With arrows that had been dipped in the poison of the Hydra's blood, their dragon Ladon had been slain.

The daughters of the evening land sang of how a mortal had come into the garden that they watched over.

He had a great bow, and with his arrow he slew the dragon that guarded the golden apples.

The boy Iolaus went with him.

Heracles and Iolaus went on until they came to the vast swamp of Lerna.

Right in the middle of the swamp was the water snake that was called the Hydra.

Nine heads it had, and it raised them up out of the water as the hero and his companion came near.

I think it's interesting that there is like a real world... like counterpart to it like it it still existed similarly to how it was portrayed even if nobody on supernatural was going hey let's imitate this

also because they they say in the purgatory there is also the mother of all masters right and actually one of the children of the Titans is considered the mother of all monsters, like she gave birth to, I don't know, the Hydras, Cerberus, the Spinks, all came from the same deity.

So it kind of

makes