Serpent

LAST MODIFIED: February 05, 2010   SUBMITTED BY: Dice
FEATURED IN: Hopefuls Pics, DicePHOTOGRAPHER: Brooklyn

DICE SAYS: “SCYLLA and Charybdis is the names of two rocks between Italy and Sicily, and only a short distance from one another. In the midst of the one of these rocks which was nearest to Italy, there dwelt, according to Homer, Scylla, a monstrous sea goddess who haunted the rocks opposite the whirlpool daemon Charybdis. She was a fearful monster, barking like a dog, with twelve dangling feet, six long necks and mouths, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Ships who sailed too close to her rocks would lose six men to her ravenous, darting heads. Scylla originally was a beautiful maiden, who often played with the nymphs of the sea, and was beloved by the marine god Glaucus. He applied to Circe for means to make Scylla return his love; but Circe, jealous of the fair maiden, threw magic herbs into the well in which Scylla was wont to bathe, and by these herbs the maiden was metamorphosed in such a manner, that the upper part of her body remained that of a woman, while the lower part was changed into the tail of a serpent, surrounded by dogs. ”