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SPHINX: Unlike the more peaceful and benevolent variation down at Egypt, the Sphinx of Greece is a beautiful yet deadly creature. Taking form of a winged lion with a woman's head and a serpent at the end of her tail, she was a force to be reckoned with by mortals. Some say she was born from the terrible Typhon and Echidna, others say she was born fom the strange union of the two headed dog Orthus and the hot-headed Chimaera; either way, her appearance was just as odd as her behavior. Anyway, the story goes that she she was sent by the gods to torment the town of Thebes and its citizens for a crime committed long ago. Whenever a traveler would pass by the country to enter Thebes, the Spinx would be lying down to ask anyone this riddle: "what creature has one voice yet goes on four, two and three legs?" But because no one could figure out the riddle, many were pounced upon and ripped to pieces by her wrath. That is until a man named Oedipus came and finally solved the riddle with this answer: "Man- as he crawls on fours as a baby, walks on two as an adult, and three and an elderly using a cane." Defeated, the once proud Sphinx threw herself from the mountainside and plummeted to her death; thus ending her reign of terror on mankind.

Description
SPHINX: Unlike the more peaceful and benevolent variation down at Egypt, the Sphinx of Greece is a beautiful yet deadly creature. Taking form of a winged lion with a woman's head and a serpent at the end of her tail, she was a force to be reckoned with by mortals. Some say she was born from the terrible Typhon and Echidna, others say she was born fom the strange union of the two headed dog Orthus and the hot-headed Chimaera; either way, her appearance was just as odd as her behavior. Anyway, the story goes that she she was sent by the gods to torment the town of Thebes and its citizens for a crime committed long ago. Whenever a traveler would pass by the country to enter Thebes, the Spinx would be lying down to ask anyone this riddle: "what creature has one voice yet goes on four, two and three legs?" But because no one could figure out the riddle, many were pounced upon and ripped to pieces by her wrath. That is until a man named Oedipus came and finally solved the riddle with this answer: "Man- as he crawls on fours as a baby, walks on two as an adult, and three and an elderly using a cane." Defeated, the once proud Sphinx threw herself from the mountainside and plummeted to her death; thus ending her reign of terror on mankind.