This whole event gives a new meaning to the baby rattle toy. Being awesome, Heracles thought these snakes were his toys, and he choked them to death. When he was just a tiny baby, Hera sent two deadly snakes to crawl into Heracles' crib. Zeus' wife, Hera, was so upset that her husband had slept around and spawned a baby with some mortal woman that she vowed to make Heracles' life miserable. He is the illegitimate son of Zeus and a lady named Alcmene. Heracles is one of the most famous Greek heroes. At Ragnarok (the Norse end of the world), he and Thor will destroy each other. He's so big that he wraps all the way around the earth's surface and can chew on his own tail. And by "giant," we mean that he got so big and dangerous that Odin, king of the Norse gods, was like, "Time to throw that snake into the ocean where he won't hurt anyone and where we can keep an eye on him." Now, Jormungand lives in the ocean. In Norse mythology, Jormungand is the child of Loki, the trickster god. Each time Heracles chopped off one the Hydra’s heads, Iolaus would cauterize the decapitated stump with some fiery fire. Famous monster killer hero Heracles destroyed the Hydra in his second of Twelve Labors by tag-teaming the beast with his nephew Iolaus. Now imagine that each time you chop one of these snake heads off, a new one immediately grows back in its place. Imagine a giant dog with lots of angry, venomous snake heads spouting from its shoulders. Medusa really is in good company when it comes to her love of snakes. But if you had snakes for hair, you'd probably develop a fascination for them too. She and the Snake Lovers Club sometimes eat their lunch in the Biology classroom where they can watch and play with the laboratory snakes there. As you might imagine, Medusa's all about snakes all the time.
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