31 Monsters!
Oct. 28th, 2010 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vivienTo channel my Project Runway inspired rage, I will discuss two monsters tonight! They go together anyway.
When I was but a wee Viv, I listened to "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by the Police, in which there is a line that goes "caught between the Scylla and Charibdis". I said to my mom, "What is the Scylla and Charibdis?" She said, as she always did, "Look it up!"
So I did, and I said "Aaaaaaaah, okay! Cool."
Wikipedia:
In Greek mythology, Scylla was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis.
Scylla was a horrible sea monster with six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Her body consisted of twelve tentacle-like legs and a cat's tail and with four to six dog-heads ringing her waist. She was one of the children of Phorcys and either Hecate, Crataeis, Lamia or Ceto.
Wikipedia:
In Greek mythology, Charybdis or Kharybdis was a sea monster, once a beautiful naiad and the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. She takes form as a huge bladder of a creature whose face was all mouth and whose arms and legs were flippers and who swallows huge amounts of water three times a day before belching them back out again, creating whirlpools. In some variations of the tale, Charybdis is just a large whirlpool rather than a sea monster.
The myth has Charybdis lying on one side of a blue, narrow channel of water. On the other side of the strait was Scylla, another sea-monster. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other, so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis will pass too close to Scylla and vice versa. The phrase "between Scylla and Charybdis" has come to mean being in a state where one is between two dangers and moving away from one will cause you to come closer to the other.
In other words, between a rock and a hard place. So hurray pop culture for teaching wee Viv something she did not know back in the day.
You know, I did not realize (or maybe I forgot - this was a long time ago) that both monsters were feminine in nature. Is there a ship for this in Yuletide? Because I could totally ship Scylla/Charibdis.
When I was but a wee Viv, I listened to "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by the Police, in which there is a line that goes "caught between the Scylla and Charibdis". I said to my mom, "What is the Scylla and Charibdis?" She said, as she always did, "Look it up!"
So I did, and I said "Aaaaaaaah, okay! Cool."
Wikipedia:
In Greek mythology, Scylla was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis.
Scylla was a horrible sea monster with six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Her body consisted of twelve tentacle-like legs and a cat's tail and with four to six dog-heads ringing her waist. She was one of the children of Phorcys and either Hecate, Crataeis, Lamia or Ceto.
Wikipedia:
In Greek mythology, Charybdis or Kharybdis was a sea monster, once a beautiful naiad and the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. She takes form as a huge bladder of a creature whose face was all mouth and whose arms and legs were flippers and who swallows huge amounts of water three times a day before belching them back out again, creating whirlpools. In some variations of the tale, Charybdis is just a large whirlpool rather than a sea monster.
The myth has Charybdis lying on one side of a blue, narrow channel of water. On the other side of the strait was Scylla, another sea-monster. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other, so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis will pass too close to Scylla and vice versa. The phrase "between Scylla and Charybdis" has come to mean being in a state where one is between two dangers and moving away from one will cause you to come closer to the other.
In other words, between a rock and a hard place. So hurray pop culture for teaching wee Viv something she did not know back in the day.
You know, I did not realize (or maybe I forgot - this was a long time ago) that both monsters were feminine in nature. Is there a ship for this in Yuletide? Because I could totally ship Scylla/Charibdis.