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Ojáncanu, one-eyed giant with a ten-fingered hand, a ten-toed foot, a long beard and red hair of Cantabrian mythology who embodies evil, cruelty and brutality. One-Eye. One of three sisters in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes.
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This article is about Greek mythology, specifically the goddess Athena. It describes her background, role in the Iliad and Odyssey, association with various cities including Athens, patronage of crafts and skilled peacetime pursuits, depiction in art and literature etc.
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In Greek legend and literature, any of several one-eyed giants to whom were ascribed a variety of histories and deeds. The Odyssey contains a well-known episode in which Odysseus escapes death by blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus. Later authors made them the workmen of Hephaestus who forged the thunderbolts of Zeus.
Athena is a city protectress, goddess of war, handicrafts, practical reason in Greek religion identified with Minerva by Romans; daughter of Zeus produced without mother; urban & civilized; favourite child with great power; associated with acropolises & palaces; virgin goddess representing intellectual side of war & virtues like justice & skill; tu...
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In an episode of Homer's Odyssey (c. 700 BC), the hero Odysseus encounters the Cyclops Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon, a one-eyed man-eating giant who lives with his fellow Cyclopes in a distant land. The relationship between these Cyclopes and Hesiod's Cyclopes is unclear.
Nov 13, 2019 · A cyclops (meaning 'circle-eyed') is a one-eyed giant first appearing in the mythology of ancient Greece. The Greeks believed that there was an entire race of cyclopes who lived in a faraway land without law and order.
Polyphemus, in Greek mythology, the most famous of the Cyclopes (one-eyed giants), son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and the nymph Thoösa. According to Ovid in Metamorphoses, Polyphemus loved Galatea, a Sicilian Nereid, and killed her lover Acis.
