By PavlosTheGreat
12/07/2008 - 11:20:30
Type: Creature
Rating: 1.14 (Not rated)
Tags: mcmythologychallenge
Description
Harpy
In Greek mythology, a harpy was any one of the mainly winged death-spirits best known for constantly stealing all food from Phineas. The literal meaning of the word seems to be "that which snatches" as it comes from the ancient Greek word harpazein , which means "to snatch".
The harpy could also bring life. A harpy was the mother by the West Wind Zephyros of the horses of Achilles (Iliad xvi. 150). In this context Jane Harrison adduced the notion in Virgil's Georgics that mares became gravid by the wind alone, marvelous to say.
Though Hesiod (Theogony) calls them two "lovely-haired" creatures, harpies as beautiful winged bird-women are a late development, in parallel with the transformation of the siren, a "creature malign though seductive in Homer, but gradually softened by the Athenian imagination into a sorrowful death angel".On a vase in the Berlin Museum,a harpy has a small figure of a hero in each claw, but her head is recognizably a Gorgon, with goggling eyes, protruding tongue, and tusks.
1370DNA points
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| 73 Bones | 2 Feet | 2 Hands |
Diet: Carnivore
Health: +012 %
| Sociability 6 / 20 | Aggressiveness 7 / 20 | Abilities 7 / 15 |
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By danielcarpenter
nice you know what
By danielcarpenter
you need to make a person like that
By dorkas
Artistic, real, and exellent!!
By Hydro_Glyph
dammit..ok no more thumbs on greens here on out, sweet Harpy though..nice "talons"
By error-406
Excellent job! very impressive effort =)
By Virakotxa
really good job... I've always covered nipples so they only show if the creature moves, afraid of censors... did great on this one
By SeamusMcClernan
(Green)
By amhorrom
Really well-made.
By Drubinsky
Well done - and interesting coloring and... ahem... anatomy
By Serevanth
(Blue)
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