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This giant serpent’s other heads possessed poisonous breath in addition to poisonous and acidic blood. The middle and dominant hydra head (the front and biggest) was immortal and breathed fire. There is also a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Lernaean Hydra would regrow two heads. It had poisonous breath and blood so virulent that even its scent was deadly. However, like her father, it is likely that she still has some rationality, probably being much more intelligent than other land creatures. This can be reinforced by the fact that she is a child of Typhon, the personification of natural disasters, literally a force of nature driven by a desire for destruction. Similar to the Beast, she does not have a "human" personality, instead having a more animalistic personality, driven by instinct. So all of these depictions are partially correct. The Lernaean Hydra is usually depicted as having either two arms and no legs, two arms and two legs or no arms or legs at all when the hydra actually starts off with having no legs then it develops two arms then two legs. This is not correct or incorrect as the hydra is usually fought at different stages of its life depending on the version of the legend.Ĭommon depictions of the hydra give the creature a thick, strong body, a serpentine tail and webbed feet. It is usually depicted as being from anywhere between 7 and 25 meters long and being around 6 to 13 meters tall.
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The Lernaean Hydra possessed many heads, the exact number of which varies according to the source. There were also another Hydra, called Hydrae, that had many differences from the Lernaean Hydra. It had many heads and every time someone would cut off one of them, two more heads would grow out of the stump. The destruction of the Lernaean Hydra was one of the 12 Labors of Heracles, which he accomplished with the assistance of Iolaus. Lerna was reputed to be an entrance to the Underworld, and archaeology has established it as a sacred site older than Mycenaean Argos. The monster's haunt was the marshes of Lerna near Argos which was the site of the Danaids. The Lernaean Hydra is a gigantic, ancient nameless serpent-like chthonic nine-headed water dragon.