938
Dibyendu Banerjee
21/02/2021
According to the traditional Hindu texts, Kansa, the tyrant ruler of Mathura, was the cousin brother of Devaki. Guided by a divine prophecy.
842
Dibyendu Banerjee
04/02/2021
In ancient Akkadian, Sumerian, and Greek texts, Succubus is depicted as a female-demon who approaches men in their dreams for having sex.
1274
Dibyendu Banerjee
21/01/2021
The name Iara originates from the word yiara of the extinct Tupi language of the native Brazilians, which stands for the lady of the lake.
1296
Dibyendu Banerjee
03/01/2021
In Greek mythology, Echidna was a Drakaina, a monstrous she-dragon with the head and breasts of a woman and the tail of a coiling serpent.
2013
Dibyendu Banerjee
19/12/2020
In the Sanskrit epic Ramayana, Taraka or Tadaka was a beautiful yaksha princess, the daughter, and the only child of the yaksha king Suketu.
1497
Dibyendu Banerjee
03/12/2020
Chimera, is a fire-breathing female monster from Greek mythology, depicted as a haphazard mish-mash of three animals, with its a lion, a goat, and a dragon ...
1061
Dibyendu Banerjee
18/11/2020
In Norse mythology, Ymir, also known as Aurgelmir, the ancestor of all the mythological giants, was created from the drops of water
1673
Dibyendu Banerjee
03/11/2020
According to Algonquian myth, Wendigo was a hunter who once lost his way in a forest during a brutally cold winter day. As he did not have and could not fin ...
866
Dibyendu Banerjee
25/10/2020
Gatotkacha can be termed as a half rakshasa, as in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, he was born to the rakshasi or demoness Hidimba and Bhima, the second Pandava.
1620
Dibyendu Banerjee
11/10/2020
In ancient Athenian legends, Gorgon was a female monster produced by Gaea, the personification of the Earth, to help the Titans battle the gods.
1397
Dibyendu Banerjee
24/09/2020
Lamia, the daughter of Poseidon and Lybie, was the queen of Libya and was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world. In some other version of ...
1477
Dibyendu Banerjee
12/09/2020
In Greek legend and literature, the Cyclops, the one-eyed monstrous giants were considered as the children of Uranus, the personification of the sky or heavens
1388
Dibyendu Banerjee
27/08/2020
In Greek mythology, the Harpies were winged monsters with a human female face and youthful long hair, who on their swift wings keep pace with the blasts of ...
1235
Dibyendu Banerjee
13/08/2020
According to Greek mythology, born to Queen Pasiphae and a divine bull, Minotaur grew up to be a ferocious monster with the body of a man and the head and t ...
1740
Dibyendu Banerjee
29/07/2020
According to Hindu legend Ramayana, Kumbhakarna was the younger brother of Ravana, the king of the Rakshsas, ruling the island of Lanka.
1430
Dibyendu Banerjee
18/07/2020
According to Metamorphoses, one of the most important sources of classical mythology, written by ancient Roman poet Ovid, Scylla was a ravishing nymph.
1996
Dibyendu Banerjee
01/07/2020
Manticore was a bloodthirsty quadruped mythical creature with the head of a blue-eyed man, the auburn body of a lion, the stinging tail of a scorpion and oc ...
1567
Dibyendu Banerjee
14/06/2020
The story of the mythological creature Medusa is depicted in multiple works by the ancient Greek writers like, Homer, the fifth-century BC lyric poet Pindar.
2988
Dibyendu Banerjee
31/05/2020
In Greek mythology, Hydra Lernaia, more often simply known as Hydra, was described as a gigantic and mighty nine-headed water-serpent.
1007
Dibyendu Banerjee
08/05/2020
Cerberus, also known as the hound of Hades, was a three-headed ferocious dog, guarding the gates of the gloomy Underworld, where only the spirits of the dea ...
