{"id":222,"date":"2024-02-15T09:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T09:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2024-02-15T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:27:11","slug":"hydra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/?page_id=222","title":{"rendered":"Hydra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:83.33%\">\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Lernaean Hydra<\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>Hydra of Lerna<\/strong>&nbsp;(Greek:&nbsp;\u039b\u03b5\u03c1\u03bd\u03b1\u1fd6\u03b1 \u1f5d\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1,&nbsp;<em>Lerna\u00eea H\u00fddra<\/em>), more often known simply as the&nbsp;<strong>Hydra<\/strong>, is a&nbsp;serpentine&nbsp;water monster in&nbsp;Greek&nbsp;and&nbsp;Roman mythology. Its lair was the lake of&nbsp;Lerna&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Argolid, which was also the site of the myth of the&nbsp;Dana\u00efdes. Lerna was reputed to be an entrance to the&nbsp;Underworld, and archaeology has established it as a sacred site older than&nbsp;Mycenaean&nbsp;Argos. In the canonical Hydra myth, the monster is killed by&nbsp;Heracles&nbsp;(Hercules) as the second of his&nbsp;Twelve Labors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;Hesiod, the Hydra was the offspring of&nbsp;Typhon&nbsp;and&nbsp;Echidna.&nbsp;It had poisonous breath and blood so virulent that even its scent was deadly.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lernaean_Hydra#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;The Hydra possessed&nbsp;many heads, the exact number of which varies according to the source. Later versions of the Hydra story add a&nbsp;regeneration&nbsp;feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow two heads.&nbsp;Heracles required the assistance of his nephew&nbsp;Iolaus&nbsp;to cut off all of the monster&#8217;s heads and burn the neck using a sword and fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lernaean_Hydra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Singer_Sargent_John_-_Hercules_-_1921-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Singer_Sargent_John_-_Hercules_-_1921-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/ekata.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Singer_Sargent_John_-_Hercules_-_1921-768x874.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ekata.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Singer_Sargent_John_-_Hercules_-_1921.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This section contains serials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:16.67%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p><strong>Serials<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/?page_id=388\">The Saviour<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/?page_id=48\">The Unlucky Witch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Lernaean Hydra&nbsp;or&nbsp;Hydra of Lerna&nbsp;(Greek:&nbsp;\u039b\u03b5\u03c1\u03bd\u03b1\u1fd6\u03b1 \u1f5d\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1,&nbsp;Lerna\u00eea H\u00fddra), more often known simply as the&nbsp;Hydra, is a&nbsp;serpentine&nbsp;water monster in&nbsp;Greek&nbsp;and&nbsp;Roman mythology. Its lair was the lake of&nbsp;Lerna&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Argolid, which was also the site of the myth of the&nbsp;Dana\u00efdes. Lerna was reputed to be an entrance to the&nbsp;Underworld, and archaeology has established it as a sacred site older than&nbsp;Mycenaean&nbsp;Argos. In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/?page_id=222\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s videre<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hydra&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekata.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}