European dragon resembling a windsock. Several personifications of evil or allusions to dragon in the Old Testament are translated as forms of "draco" in Jerome's Vulgate. e.g Deuteronomy (32:33), Job (30:29), Psalms (73:13, 90:13 & 43:20), Isaiah (13:21, 27:1, 34:13 & 43:20), Jeremiah (9:11), Micah (1:8) and Malachi (1:3). Dragons in Greek mythology often guard treasure such as Ladon, a hundred headed dragon which guarded the tree of Herdias until he was slain by Heracles. Likewise Python guarded the oracle of Delphi until he was likewise slain by Apollo out of revenge for Python tormenting his mother. The Lerneaen Hydra, a multiple
Cetus (mythology) Cetus (mythology) In Ancient Greek, the word "kētos" (, plural "kētē" or "kētea", κήτη or κήτεα)—Latinized as cetus (pl. cetea)—denotes a large fish, a whale, a shark, or a sea monster. The sea monsters slain by Perseus and Heracles were each referred to as a "cetus" by ancient sources. The term cetacean (for whale) originates from "cetus". In Greek art, "cetea" were depicted as serpentine fish. The name of the mythological figure Ceto is derived from "ketos". The name of the constellation Cetus also derives from this word. Queen Cassiopeia boasted that she and her daughter Andromeda were more beautiful