09-12-2012, 12:15 AM
Phil.
The Aloadae named Otus and Ephialtes are the wrong giants concerning the Legend of the Gigantes who were a different group of Grotesque giants who had no legs and their bodies terminated as snakes.
The Gigantes were the sons of Gaia (the earth) and were born from the drops of blood that fell on her when Cronos hacked off the genitals of his father Uranus.
Indeed it is strange how Ephialtes was one of the Gigantes but was slain by Apollo and Heracles where Apollo put an arrow in his left eye and Heracles put one into his right eye.
The Aloadae named Otus and Ephialtes are the wrong giants concerning the Legend of the Gigantes who were a different group of Grotesque giants who had no legs and their bodies terminated as snakes.
The Gigantes were the sons of Gaia (the earth) and were born from the drops of blood that fell on her when Cronos hacked off the genitals of his father Uranus.
Indeed it is strange how Ephialtes was one of the Gigantes but was slain by Apollo and Heracles where Apollo put an arrow in his left eye and Heracles put one into his right eye.
Brian Stobbs
