Labbu

This week’s creature is called the Labbu. The name Labbu already tells a lot about the creature, meaning “Raging One” or “lion”. Pay attention to my description now, to find out if the Labbu is part of the Greek mythology or not.

You can already get a good feeling of the monster by the people’s reaction when the Labbu arrives in coastal cities. An ancient author once put it that way: The inhabitants were moaning and crying, the cities sighed, the people were decreasing in number as the serpent came out of the sea.

The creature is a hybrid monster, mostly resembling a lion and a serpent. It is a scaly animal that lives in the sea. The Labbu’s forelegs are the same as the lion’s and its hind legs are similar to the eagle’s claws. It has a long neck and a long tail, a horned head and a snake-like tongue. The serpent is 50 miles long and 1 mile high. Its mouth is almost 7 m wide with a tongue double the length inside. The lion-serpent has a pair of long ears that are nearly 14 m long. It is said that a Labbu can snatch birds at a distance of 70 m and that it drags 10 m deep in the water. Some people claim that when this creature is killed its blood would flow for three years, three months, one day and one night.

Can you now guess if the Labbu is a creature from the Greek mythology? Or is it part of another mythology? Did I just make it up by myself? Just click on the solution button below!