Scylla

Appearances

 * Devil Children: Book of Dark
 * Devil Children: Book of Light
 * Shin Megami Tensei: Kijo Clan

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. The two side of the channel were so close to each other that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus was forced to chose between losing six men to Scylla or risk losing 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. 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 classical art, she was depicted as a fish-tailed mermaid with four to six dog-heads ringing her waist.