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	stymphalian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The diet of stymphalian birds is omnivorous, though typical habits are those of their herbivorous cousins.
		Stymphalian birds are closely related to normal geese, with the exception that they are omnivorous scavengers.
		Stymphalians have three tiny, sharp claws on their webbed feet, as well as a serrated beak used for ripping and tearing prey.
	members.aol.com /tremerecainite/earthdawn/creatures/stymphalian.html (431 words)

	Stymphalian Birds - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Greek Mythology, the Stymphalian Birds were birds with claws of brass and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and also they were Ares' pets.
		Ridding the land of these birds was one of Heracles' The Twelve Labours, and some sources claim the Stymphalian birds were the same avians that attacked the Argonauts.
		In the later story, Heracles scared off the Stymphalian Birds (who lived in a swamp) with noise, and firing an arrow at them (the constellation Sagitta, an arrow, is aiming towards Aquila).
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php?title=Stymphalian_Birds&redirect=no (287 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for birds
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		Stymphalian birds, in Greek mythology, dangerous man-eating birds that infested the woods around Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia.
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	Stymphalian Birds
		The birds were also destroying the crops and fruit trees and local inhabitants were being terrorized by them.
		Heracles, trying to think of a way in which to drive the birds from their hiding place, was approached by Athena, goddess of invention, and also a protectress of Heracles.
		It was she, with the help of Hephaestus, the smith-god, who devised a way to drive the birds from the forest.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/s/stymphalian_birds.html (310 words)

	Stymphalian birds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, Stymphalian Birds were man-eating birds with claws of brass and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and also they were Ares' pets.
		Ridding the land of these birds was one of Heracles' Twelve Labors, and some sources claim the Stymphalian birds were the same avians that attacked the Argonauts.
		The noise, archery, and sinister birds associated with the constellations may reflect the origin of the myth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stymphalian_Birds (309 words)

	Symphalian Birds
		In Greek mythology, the Stymphalian Birds lived by Lake Stymphalus[?] in Arcadia.
		Some sources claim these were the same birds that attacked the Argonauts.
		Hephaestus made huge bronze clappers to drive the birds into flight, and Heracles shot them with his arrows or a catapault.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stymphalian_Birds.html (117 words)

	The Stymphalian Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Stymphalian birds where man-eaters and had beaks of steel, long pointed nails and used their feathers as arrows.
		As he approached the Stymphalian lake he saw many birds in the sky but the man-eaters where not to be seeing nowhere.
		Athena said to him that the Stymphalian birds where hiding in the trees because they where afraid of him and she gave Hercules the brazen castanets, which she had received from Hephaestus.
	www.steliart.com /hercules_stymphalian_birds.htm (373 words)

	Vol. 11, No. 8 Cover \| CDC EID
		The birds scatter in disarray, not laden with metal as the myth prescribes, but confused, half resting at the foot of the hero, half flapping their wings against each other, compromised by the lack of cover.
		The birds surfaced again, during his sail with Jason and the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece, to be chased away again, this time by the sons of the North Wind.
		Waterfowl, a benign species, were demonized in the Stymphalian myth, their hideous mien likely borne of human fear and helplessness, for who knows what pestilence they had inflicted on the community around the lake.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/eid/vol11no08/about_cover.htm (1143 words)

	The Stymphalian Birds (The Styphalides)
		The Stymphalian birds are birds of prey that infest the lake Stymphalus in Greece.
		The sound chases the birds away from their hideout and then Hercules is able to kill them with his bow and arrow.
		Other myths continue the story; Hercules and his nephew Iolaos strangle the rest of the birds that are not killed by the flying arrows with their bare hands and sacrifice them to Athena who has always stood faithfully by Hercules' side in his times of need.
	library.thinkquest.org /26264/myths/tales/heroes/site2005.htm (156 words)

	Nicaea AE25 Unlisted of Severus Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 2nd century A.D. travel writer, Pausanias, trying to discover what kind of birds they might have been, wrote that during his time a type of bird from the Arabian desert was called Stymphalian, describing them as equal to lions or leopards in their fierceness.
		All armor of bronze or iron that men wear is pierced by the birds; but if they weave a garment of thick cork, the beaks of the Stymphalian birds are caught in the cork garment...
		These birds are of the size of a crane, and are like the ibis, but their beaks are more powerful, and not crooked like that of the ibis.
	www.wildwinds.com /aca/ric/severus_alexander/_nicaea_AE25_unlisted.html (407 words)

	Hercules - The Stymphalian Birds
		Hercules went to the middle of Greece to the Stymphalian valley where the birds lived.
		It was just like the other birds except it was at least ten times the others' size.
		Moments later, the bird was motionless on the top of the mountain.
	www.eastchester.k12.ny.us /schools/ms/hercules/hercules6.html (349 words)

	Stymphalian birds, Heracles, Ancient Greece - mythology.
		The new task was to kill the birds of prey, which lived in the district of Stymphalian lake.
		These birds were as big as gryphons, but their beaks, claws and feathers were from bronze.
		Heracles and his friend came to the lake, where these birds lived, but birds were at the moment away.
	www.tours2greece.info /greece-travel/fifth_feat.php (262 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - The Labors of Hercules - IX - Killing the Stymphalian Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alice Bailey and Djwhal Khul - The Labors of Hercules - IX - Killing the Stymphalian Birds
		Bewildered and disturbed by such a monstrous noise, the predatory birds rose in the air with wildly flapping brazen wings, and screeched in hoarse dismay.
		The soft gleam of a westering sun was seen as it flickered on the darkening landscape.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /netnews/bk/hercules/herc1046.html (910 words)

	The Stymphalian Birds
		Artemis' temple was the first one a traveller saw, festooned with statues of bird legged women and gorgons.
		The priestesses sometimes wore bird masks ornamented with feathers and bronze beaks.
		The night of the Dark Moon, the charge from the high walls was led by the priestesses in feathered cloaks or headdresses, their clothing chattering in the wind, faces and exposed skin painted white.
	www.moonspeaker.ca /Heraklaea/labour6.html (498 words)

	Scorpio
		Eurystheus bids Hercules to expel the man-eating birds who infested the Lake of Stymphalus in the mountains of Arcadia; they had wings, talons, and beaks of iron, and their feathers shot out like arrows.
		The Lake Stymphalus is symbolical of creative and generative force in its static unprecipitated condition as suggested by its position in the mountains of pure Arcadia.
		The Birds, or Stymphalides as they were called, symbolize the inordinate tendencies which utilise this creative energy for unnatural and abnormal purposes, with all their attendant destructive consequences to the human organism.
	www.btinternet.com /~southcote/scorpio.htm (471 words)

	Stymphalian Birds
		Stymphalian Birds were birds that had originally lived in the swamp at Lake Stymphalus, in Arcadia.
		Hercules’ sixth labour had involved killing and driving off Stymphalian Birds that had plagued northern Arcadia.
		Athena gave Hercules a brazen rattle to frighten the birds into flight.
	faculty.trinityvalleyschool.org /carlsonb/higgss/index_files/Page747.htm (70 words)

	Stymphalian Birds (Hercules foes)
		The Stymphalian Birds were a species of unknown bird (possibly eagles or vultures) fed on nectar and ambrosia, the foodstuffs which allow the Olympian gods to maintain their youth, vigor, longevity and superhuman power.
		Granted impervious natures above normal birds of their type, they were particularly lethal man-eaters capable of carrying away human beings, specifically victims of war strewn behind on a battlefield.
		A few of the surviving birds fled for an unidentified island in the Black Sea sacred to Ares, but they were discovered here by the Argonauts where the remaining number of them were killed off.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix3/stymphalianb.htm (343 words)

	Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Stymphalian Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The ancient geographer Strabo believed that the Stymphalian marsh drained into an underground river that emerged miles away on the far side of mountains at this spring near Kefalari in Argos.
		Flying creatures with lethal, metallic feathers who infested the Stymphalian marsh in Arcadia.
		With these noisemakers, he caused the birds to take wing.
	www.mythweb.com /encyc/gallery/stymphalian_birds_c.html (92 words)

	Labor 9 The Myth
		A multitude of birds cawed raucously, a chorus menacing and dissonant, as he approached.
		One bird he struck resoundingly upon the back; two feathers plummeted to earth and quivered as they plunged into yielding ground.
		Utterly confused, the vast cloud of birds fled in frantic haste, never to return.
	www.steliart.com /labor_9_the_myth.htm (1738 words)

	Spiritual Astrology: Sagittarius
		At a closer view he saw the birds, large and fierce and hideous they were.
		He had freed himself from illusion and Athena had given him some cymbals which he clashed so loudly that the birds arose out of the marsh into the air and tried to fly away; then he mounted on his winged horse and shot them with his arrows.
		The birds that did the most harm were three in number: cruel gossip; selfish talk; and casting of pearls before swine.
	www.spiritualpsychotherapy.net /spiritualastrologysagittarius/index.html (2961 words)

	Heracles, The Stymphalian Birds, The Cretan Bull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Now at the city of Stymphalus in Arcadia was the lake called Stymphalian, embosomed in a deep wood.
		To it countlessbirds had flocked for refuge, fearing to be preyed upon by the wolves.
		So when Heracles was at a loss how to drive the birds from the wood, Athena gave him brazen castanets, which she had received from Hephaestus.
	www3.baylor.edu /~John_Thorburn/HeraclesBirdsBull.html (268 words)

	The Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For the sixth Labor, Eurystheus decided to make Hercules get rid of a huge flock Hercules was to drive away an enormous flock of birds which were said to be man-eaters.
		These birds could always be found at a lake near the town of Stymphalos.
		But since Hephaistos, the god of the forge had made these; they were not ordinary and could produce a noise as loud as thunder.
	people.uncw.edu /deagona/herakles/children/birds.htm (134 words)

	Sixth Labor @ Tiberius's Travel Taberna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the land of Stymphalos, there were certain birds that not only had beaks made of bronze, but also had feathers to shoot at hapless bystanders.
		These birds, as such things are wont to do, wrecked havoc on the countryside and something needed to be done.
		However, when he arrived at the lake where the birds were often found, he could not think of a way to drive them out.
	latin.4915.net /sixth.html (192 words)

	STYMPHALIAN-BIRDS : The fabulous creature from Greek Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From the filth of the AUGEAN-STABLES to the drear of the Stymphalian Marshes.
		Here terrible flesh-eating birds with iron beaks and bronze claws had taken up residence in a large colony.
		The cymbals were forged by HEPHAESTUS and they made such a scary noise, the birds took to the air screeching in fear.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=STYMPHALIAN-BIRDS (247 words)

	Thebes, Herakles labors - The Wild Birds of Stymphalus
		The Wild Birds of Stymphalus, amphora 530 BC In the sixth labor, Herakles was ordered to destroy the voracious birds, who had been brought by Ares at the lake of Stymphalus, in Arcadia.
		These man eating birds had claws, wings and beaks of brass and their feathers could be shot like arrows.
		Pausanias saw the temple and the carving of birds in its roof
	www.sikyon.com /Thebes/Labors/labor_eg06.html (175 words)

	Herakles - The Stymphalian Birds - Page Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When he reached Lake Stymphalus all the birds were hidden in the deep dark forest.
		The discs made such a terrible noise that all the birds were frightened out of their hiding places.
		They flew over the lake in a huge flock and Herakles was able to shoot them all with his bow and arrows.
	www.lancsngfl.ac.uk /curriculum/literacy/lit_site/html/fiction/herakles/pages/birds_2.htm (150 words)

	The Stymphalian Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When he shot his poisonous arrows at the birds, the feathers deflected them.
		Since the birds sought their refuge in the marsh, the Heracles attempted to use shere force.
		The noise it produced startled the birds so much that they flew up into the air and exposed their undersides, which were vulnerable.
	library.thinkquest.org /23057/seven/stymph.html (109 words)

	Stymphalian Birds
		Crane-sized, ibis-like, man-eating creatures with brass beaks, wings, and claws, said to have colonized the Stymphalian marsh in Greece.
		The sixth of the 12 great labors assigned to the mythological hero Heracles (Hercules in Roman myth) was to drive these birds away.
		The Stymphalian birds have always been considered to be purely imaginary.
	www.occultopedia.com /s/stymphalian_birds.htm (3178 words)

	Stymphalian Birds
		Hephaestus made huge bronze clappers to drive the birds into flight, and Heracles shot them with his arrows or a catapult.
		Also, the next constellation on the sun's transit after the birds is Delphinus, whose myth concerns the saving of Arion, a court musician, by a dolphin.
		Herakles scared off the Stymphalian Birds (who lived in a swamp) with noise, and firing an arrow at them (the constellation Sagitta, an arrow, is aiming towards Aquila).
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/StymphalianBirds.html (358 words)

	Les oiseaux du Lac Stymphale
		The fifth Labour imposed on Hercules was to destroy the birds that inhabited a marsh near Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia.
		Whether these birds fed on human flesh, or killed people with their feathers of brass or merely were a nuisance due to their number, depends on the sources.
		Hercules could not approach the birds because the ground was too swampy.
	chrsouchon.free.fr /galiana/travaux/stymphal.htm (429 words)

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