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Geryon

Beings - Giants

 

Card 274

Battle Area:

  1. Water = 10
  2. Earth = 30
  3. Heaven = 10

Attack and Defense

  1. Wisdom = 10
  2. Dexterity and Strength = 50
  3. Powers = 10

  4. Fire = 10

 

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Geryon

Beings - Giants

Geryon (from ancient Greek Γηρυών), in Greco-Roman mythology, the name of one of the giants, son of Crisaor and Calírroe, endowed with three heads; was the brother of Equidna, a half-female half-serpent monster, who begot the Ortros, who guarded the cattle of Geryon. Its myth is linked to that of Hercules, to whom, in one of his works, he had to steal his oxen.

Geryon inhabited Erithia (the "red"), one of the mythical islands of the Hesperides, situated in the extreme West of the Mediterranean Sea. This is probably Spain, near Cadiz.

The name Geriao derives from the Greek verb γηρύειν (guerýein), which means to shout, to make resound, possibly because he was a shepherd or because this might have been originally the name of the dog that herd the herd.

Geriao had three heads (policefalia) and three torsos. He was a cruel being, whose deformity went to his hips.


Hercules and the oxen of Geryon

His coveted herd of red cattle was guarded by shepherd Euthyd and the Ortros dog, near the place where he also grazed the flock of Hades (Pluto), guarded by Menetes.

Having Hercules received from Eurystheus the task of capturing the herd of Geryon, he crosses the Ocean in the Sun Cup and, arriving at Erithia after several adventures (including the opening of the Straits of Gibraltar), he liquidates Ortros with his club and then defeats Euritião . Warned by Menetes, Geriao blocks with the hero a battle on the banks of the Anteno, where he is finally killed with arrows. Hercules then follows his journey back to Greece, facing various challenges.

Junito Brandão, computing to Hercules thirteen tasks (being the last one the victory over the death), says that its last three works compose this escalation of the hero towards the victory; the journey to the misty lands of Geriao would thus be part of his "courtship with Thanatos."

 

 

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