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Figures cast as the enemy of order in the account that survives. The label belongs to the telling and not to the being. Tiamat is a primordial goddess of the salt sea in Mesopotamian sources and a monster only in the poem about her defeat; Apophis is the nightly adversary of the sun in Egyptian ritual rather than a creature anyone killed once; Typhon is the Greek case of a challenge to a new order of gods.
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What Defines This GroupingBeings that a hero or a god must overcome. In their own traditions several of these are cosmic adversaries of the created order rather than beasts, and their defeat is an act of creation or of its maintenance rather than an adventure; the English heading flattens that. 2 Learn More
The Monsters
This group gathers monsters, the fearsome beings of myth that heroes must confront: creatures of chaos, guardians of thresholds and embodiments of the wild and dangerous. They are figures of narrative rather than the catalogued mythical creatures elsewhere in the atlas.
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