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Brontes, one of the three Cyclops smith gods in Greek mythology; Steropes, one of the three Cyclops smith gods in Greek mythology; Dajjal, a figure in Islam akin to the Antichrist, who has one eye; Duwa Sokhor, an ancestor of Genghis Khan, according to The Secret History of the Mongols, who had one eye in his forehead [1] Fachan, a creature ...
Perseus and the Graeae by Edward Burne-Jones (1892). In Greek mythology, the Graeae (/ ˈ ɡ r iː iː /; Ancient Greek: Γραῖαι Graiai, lit. ' old women ', alternatively spelled Graiai), also called the Grey Sisters and the Phorcides (' daughters of Phorcys '), [1] were three sisters who had gray hair from their birth and shared one eye and one tooth among them.
A first century AD head of a Cyclops from the Roman Colosseum. In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes (/ s aɪ ˈ k l oʊ p iː z / sy-KLOH-peez; Greek: Κύκλωπες, Kýklōpes, "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes"; [1] singular Cyclops / ˈ s aɪ k l ɒ p s / SY-klops; Κύκλωψ, Kýklōps) are giant one-eyed creatures. [2]
Polyphemus (/ ˌ p ɒ l i ˈ f iː m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πολύφημος, romanized: Polyphēmos, Epic Greek: [polypʰɛːmos]; Latin: Polyphēmus [pɔlʏˈpʰeːmʊs]) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey.
The "sp" in the name suggests [citation needed] that it was mediated through Iranian sources to Greek, indeed in Early Iranian Arimaspi combines Ariama (love) and aspa (horses). Herodotus or his source seems to have understood the Scythian word as a combination of the roots arima ("one") and spou ("eye") and to have created a mythic image to ...
'divine', also rendered Thea or Thia), also called Euryphaessa (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυφάεσσα, "wide-shining"), is one of the twelve Titans, the children of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus in Greek mythology. She is the Greek goddess of sight and vision, and by extension the goddess who endowed gold, silver, and gems with ...
Probably Mycene [2] (in another version the son of Gaia [3]) was a primordial giant whose epithet Panoptes, "all-seeing", led to his being described with multiple, often one hundred eyes. The epithet Panoptes was applied to the god of the Sun , Helios , and was taken up as an epithet by Zeus , Zeus Panoptes .
According to Greek mythology, [1] the Chimera, Chimaera, Chimæra, or Khimaira (/ k aɪ ˈ m ɪər ə, k ɪ-/ ky-MEER-ə, kih-; Ancient Greek: Χίμαιρα, romanized: Chímaira, lit. 'she-goat') [ 2 ] was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature from Lycia , Asia Minor , composed of different animal parts.