Scylla

Scylla is a recurring demon in the series.
==History==
Scylla is one of the two monsters in Greek mythology (the other being Charybdis) that lived on either side of a narrow channel of water (associated with the Strait of Messina). The two sides of the channel were so close to each other that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla. In classical art, she was depicted as a fish-tailed mermaid with four to six dog-heads ringing her waist.
No ship that dares sail in her waters goes unscathed. Those that cling to survival whisper panicked tales of enormous black tentacles tipped with slavering hound heads ravaging whole ships to splinters with pitiless precision. Though it is her laughter, they say, that is most horrible; child-like, delighting in blood soaked murder as men are dragged into the dark abyss. Compared to Charybdis, who is a mindless beast, Scylla is merciless and consumed by hatred.
According to Ovid, Scylla was once a beautiful nymph. Glaucus fell in love with her, and she fled where he could not reach. Glaucus asked Circe to create a potion that would make Scylla fall in love with him. Circe, in turn, fell in love with Glaucus as he described his love for the nymph. Out of jealousy, Circe poisoned Scylla's bathing water, so that when Scylla bathed next, she became a grotesque sea monster with six heads. Each head had three rows of teeth and she possessed twelve canine legs and a cat tail.
In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus was forced to choose between losing six men to Scylla or risking to lose all his men to Charybdis. Odysseus ends up losing six men to Scylla and he takes one of their empty spots to aid in rowing the ship.
==Appearances==
*Megami Tensei: Kaijuu Race
*Megami Tensei II: Kaijuu Race
*Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei: Kaijuu Race
*Shin Megami Tensei: Femme Race
*Shin Megami Tensei II: Wilder Race
*Shin Megami Tensei: if...: Wilder Race
*Last Bible
*Shin Megami Tensei NINE: Wilder Race (Unused)
*Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis: Yoma Race
*Megami Ibunroku Persona: Wilder Order
*Devil Children Black Book & Red Book: Mute Race
*Devil Children White Book: Mute Race
*DemiKids Light Version / Dark Version: Alternate Type
*Devil Children Fire/Ice Book: Mute Race
==Profile==
===Shin Megami Tensei===
===DemiKids Light/Dark Version===
==Stats==
===Megami Tensei===
===Megami Tensei II===
===Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei===
====Megami Tensei====
====Megami Tensei II====
===Shin Megami Tensei===
===Shin Megami Tensei II===
===Shin Megami Tensei: if...===
===Last Bible===
===Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis===
===Megami Ibunroku Persona===
===Devil Children Black/Red Book===
===DemiKids Light & Dark===
===Devil Children Fire/Ice Book===
==Gallery==
Jack-O-Lantern, Golem, Jinn, Jack Frost, Susano-O, Scylla, Stonka, and Shiva. Artwork for Megami Tensei II..jpg|Scylla in Megami Tensei II
Scylla2concept.jpg|Scylla as she appears in Shin Megami Tensei II
scylla.JPG|Artwork from Devil Children Black Book & Red Book.
Category:Greco-Roman Mythology