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--Charybdid, Raging whirlpool--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A sea monster from Greek mythology, who terrorized the Strait of Messina (a strait between Sicily
and Calabria in modern Italy), alongside another Greek sea monster, the Scylla, who destroyed
any ships that drew close to them. Both monsters dwelled on opposite sides of the narrow
channel they called home, and those who crossed had the dangerous task of trying to avoid both
monsters, or else, death was certain. This gave the birth to the idiom "To be between Scylla and
Charybdis", meaning, to be forced to choose between two evils. Both Odysseus and Jason had
encounters with both monsters in their respective stories, and both manage to avoid them (albeit
with some supernatural aid). While Scylla had a pretty consistent appearance in the legends,
Charybdis was never properly described, only as a vague sea monster responsible for creating
whirlpools. According to legend, in her early days, Charybdis was actually a sea nymph, daughter
of Poseidon, Greek god of the seas, who aligned herself with her father in a personal feud against
his brother Zeus, king of the gods. Poseidon ended up winning the competition, and got to
submerge a portion of land and some islands under the sea. Angry with the land that was taken
from him, Zeus decided to avenge himself by cursing Charybdis, chaining her to the bottom of the
sea, and turning her into a monster with an uncontrollable thirst. Thrice a day she would take large
gulps to quench it, creating enormous whirlpools in the process, prophecized to one day to dry out
all the seas with her thirst. With time, the monster would become more and more associated with
the whirlpools it created, and later some authors even claimed it was a whirlpool itself. In fact, one
does exist to this day in the Strait of Messina (albeit too small to actually sink any large ship), so it
is thought by some that this very whirlpool is the actual origin of the legends about the monster.
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With tests, college assignments and commissions on the horizon, I really shouldn't be posting this, but I thought it was due
time for another drawing. Luckily, this didn't take much of my time at all.

Charybdis is portrayed in a very consist way in media, and it always looks like something like this: [here] Or this [here]
A huge whirlpool with sharp teeth or a giant wyrm like creature with a circular mouth.

I didn't want to betray the popular image of the creature, but I wanted to differentiate mine in some way, so an idea came
to me while looking at turban shells: [here] .

The swirling pattern inside the shell, the tornado-like structure, and those pointy spikes seemed very interesting to
me design-wise, so that's where all of this came from. i tried to make the spikes look more like a mix between teeth, rock,
and crustacean appendages. Charybdis doesn't have anything to do with crustaceans, of course, it was just a way to sell
the whole "sea creature look". Maybe all the spikes and the hook-like tail were a bit too much though.

Now, if you all excuse me, my assigments are calling to me.

Hope you all liked, and see you all next time!

Description
--Charybdid, Raging whirlpool--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A sea monster from Greek mythology, who terrorized the Strait of Messina (a strait between Sicily
and Calabria in modern Italy), alongside another Greek sea monster, the Scylla, who destroyed
any ships that drew close to them. Both monsters dwelled on opposite sides of the narrow
channel they called home, and those who crossed had the dangerous task of trying to avoid both
monsters, or else, death was certain. This gave the birth to the idiom "To be between Scylla and
Charybdis", meaning, to be forced to choose between two evils. Both Odysseus and Jason had
encounters with both monsters in their respective stories, and both manage to avoid them (albeit
with some supernatural aid). While Scylla had a pretty consistent appearance in the legends,
Charybdis was never properly described, only as a vague sea monster responsible for creating
whirlpools. According to legend, in her early days, Charybdis was actually a sea nymph, daughter
of Poseidon, Greek god of the seas, who aligned herself with her father in a personal feud against
his brother Zeus, king of the gods. Poseidon ended up winning the competition, and got to
submerge a portion of land and some islands under the sea. Angry with the land that was taken
from him, Zeus decided to avenge himself by cursing Charybdis, chaining her to the bottom of the
sea, and turning her into a monster with an uncontrollable thirst. Thrice a day she would take large
gulps to quench it, creating enormous whirlpools in the process, prophecized to one day to dry out
all the seas with her thirst. With time, the monster would become more and more associated with
the whirlpools it created, and later some authors even claimed it was a whirlpool itself. In fact, one
does exist to this day in the Strait of Messina (albeit too small to actually sink any large ship), so it
is thought by some that this very whirlpool is the actual origin of the legends about the monster.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

With tests, college assignments and commissions on the horizon, I really shouldn't be posting this, but I thought it was due
time for another drawing. Luckily, this didn't take much of my time at all.

Charybdis is portrayed in a very consist way in media, and it always looks like something like this: [here] Or this [here]
A huge whirlpool with sharp teeth or a giant wyrm like creature with a circular mouth.

I didn't want to betray the popular image of the creature, but I wanted to differentiate mine in some way, so an idea came
to me while looking at turban shells: [here] .

The swirling pattern inside the shell, the tornado-like structure, and those pointy spikes seemed very interesting to
me design-wise, so that's where all of this came from. i tried to make the spikes look more like a mix between teeth, rock,
and crustacean appendages. Charybdis doesn't have anything to do with crustaceans, of course, it was just a way to sell
the whole "sea creature look". Maybe all the spikes and the hook-like tail were a bit too much though.

Now, if you all excuse me, my assigments are calling to me.

Hope you all liked, and see you all next time!