-CHIMERA: (Classical Mythology)
E'figlia of Typhon, a gigantic body which culminated in a hundred dragon heads and Echidna, the Viper, half beautiful woman and half speckled snake. His brothers are
Cerberus, Hydra and Ortro.
Chimera is the personification of the storm and his voice is the thunder.
"Lion's head, chest goat and dragon tail;
and mouth flames of fire spewed ugly ..."
(Iliad, VI 0.223 to 225)
-MYTH:
Amissidore Chimera was bred by the king and for many years terrorized the coasts of Lycia.
was Bellerophon, a hero by many as the son of God Poseidon, to stop the legendary monster.
With the help of Pegasus, given to him by Minerva, he managed to defeat Chimera with its own weapons, in fact :"... there was no arrow or spear would soon have killed her. "Then Bellerophon plunged the tip of the spear in the jaws of the beast and the fire that came from his mouth melted lead, and it killed her.
-Khimaira:
Chimera takes its name from the characteristic that differs from their parents, the goat's head. Indeed Khimaira in greek means goat. And the goat is "the most wild between domestic pets and most wild animals." It is against this background that indicate three meanings symbolized by Chimera:
1) = force Leone,
summer heat = 2) Snake = earth = dark winter, old
3) Capra = = autumn and spring passage
Also in this context we read the dedication to Tinia, changing the Etruscan Jupiter, inscribed on the front right paw Chimera of Arezzo: "Do not be surprising that the supreme god of the Etruscans, cagiante principle of all things, was dedicated to the fast multiaspetto Chimera."
-CHIMERA MEDIEVAL: Medieval
The Chimera has three heads (dragon, lion, goat), feathered wings, the body of a lion, dragon forepaws (goat) and the rear of a lion, tail-shaped symbol serpente.Nel Middle Ages misfortune and death.
"... the Chimera of three, with three mouths on fire rushing ..."
(Aeneid)
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