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Perna Studios is very excited to announce our very first trading card set entitled Classic Mythology (for release in April of 2012). This set will focus on 6 timeless Classic Mythologies that we have all come to love and enjoy during our lifetime. The mythologies spotlighted in this set are Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Celtic, Japanese and Hindu. We have an impressive list of artists involved on this set working on both base/promo cards and sketch cards.



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This awesome art of Sphinxes from Egyptian Mythology is created by the very talented artist Sara Richard sararichard.com - This beautiful art will be a base card in our Classic Mythology card set.


Sphinx – Egyptian Mythology – The sphinx is a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head or a cat head. They were the guardians of tombs and temples, and basked in the glow of their sun goddess, Sekhmet, a lioness.


There is also Sphinx in Greek Mythology too.


Sphinx – Greek Mythology - The Sphinx, in Greek tradition, has the body of a lioness, the wings of a great bird and the face of a woman. She is mythicised as treacherous and merciless. The Sphinx was said to have guarded the entrance to the Greek city of Thebes, and to have asked a riddle of travellers to allow them passage. Those who cannot answer her riddle suffer a fate typical in such mythological stories, as they are killed and eaten by this ravenous monster. There was a single sphinx in Greek mythology, a unique demon of destruction and bad luck. According to Hesiod, she was a daughter of Orthus and either Echidna or the Chimera, or perhaps even Ceto; according to others, she was a daughter of Echidna and Typhon. All of these are chthonic figures from the earliest of Greek myths, before the Olympians ruled the Greek pantheon. The Sphinx is called Phix by Hesiod in line 326 of the Theogony.

It was said in late lore that Hera or Ares sent the Sphinx from her Ethiopian homeland (the Greeks always remembered the foreign origin of the Sphinx) to Thebes in Greece where she asks all passersby the most famous riddle in history: "Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at mid-day on two, and in the evening upon three, and the more legs it has, the weaker it be?" She strangled and devoured anyone unable to answer. Oedipus solved the riddle by answering: Man—who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane in old age. By some accounts (but much more rarely), there was a second riddle: "There are two sisters: one gives birth to the other and she, in turn, gives birth to the first." The answer is "day and night" (both words are feminine in Greek). Bested at last, the tale continues, the Sphinx then threw herself from her high rock and died. An alternative version tells that she devoured herself.

 

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BluegirlWoomy's avatar

Very ferocious beasts