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Scylla & Charybdis
Goals.
Scylla
Stories claimed she was once a beautiful mythic nymph
Glaucus, a fisherman turned Sea God, instantly fell deeply in love with her.
So he went to Circe for a potion to make Scylla his forever
But Circe loved Glaucus, and so she poisoned Scylla out of a jealous rage.
And turned her into a sea creature with six heads, shark teeth, and dogs for loins
She devoured travelers from the rock she was cursed to, just across the strait from her counterpart.
Always leaving a few behind to tell the tale.
Charybdis
Once rumored to be Poseidon’s daughter
Sent to the opposite rock across from Scylla by Zeus’s thunderbolt
They say she stole Hercule’s oxen.
A real hell-raiser.
A whirlpool of a force
Three times a day, she’d inhale and exhale
Attempting to destroy anything in her breath’s path
Scylla might have had the grace to leave a few behind
But Charybdis swallowed whole ships
Wrecked and ruin.
