Charybde
In the Greek Mythology, Charybde (in Greek old Χάρυϐδις / Khárybdis ) was the girl of Poséidon and Gaïa (Earth). To have stolen to Héraclès part of the herd of Géryon, it was struck down by Zeus and was changed into a marine pit. There, three times per day, it swallowed then redéglutissait great quantities of water, including ships and fish. It appears in particular in the Odyssey where it absorbs the boat of Ulysses.
Charybde is often associated with Scylla, another monster marine opposite which it resides. These two figures constituted a metaphor of the dangers watching for the first Greek sailors who ventured in unknown water that some locate in the Western Mediterranean whereas the ancient accounts quote the Black Sea. The expression “to fall from Charybde in Scylla” means nowadays to avoid a danger while being exposed to another worst still .
The site of Charybde was improperly associated with the strait Messine, off the coast of the Sicily, opposite a rock called Scylla. A swirl is caused there by the junction of currents, but it is seldom dangerous. For this reason, a recent thesis rather suggests an origin in the vicinity of the Greece, on its north-western coast, close to the island Leucade, while the the Bosphorus seems to have been its more frequent localization in the text former to the fall of Constantinople.
Charybde gave its name to the Charybdae marsupialis , a jellyfish of the old order of the Cuboméduses , of the family of the Charybdéides .
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