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Description
Daughter of Gaia and Pontus.
In Greek mythology, she was a marine creature that protected territorial boundaries in the sea.
In older times, Charybdis was more connected to legends of sailors and fishermen than to Greek mythology. Homer positioned it as a mythological entity, removing it from a simple regional legend. Homer called her "the divine Charybdis", using the same adjective applied to the beautiful cave nymph, Calypso.
During its existence as a nymph, Charybdis was characterized by extreme voracity. When Heracles passed close to Messina, taking Geryon's oxen, he stole some of the animals and devoured them. When trying to invest against the hero, who was trying to recover his cattle, Charybdis was struck by Zeus with a thunderbolt, and thrown into the depths of the sea, where she turned into a sea monster.
In Greek mythological tradition, Charybdis was usually related to Scylla, another sea monster. The two lived on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina, which separates the Italian peninsula from Sicily, and personified the dangers of sailing near rocks and whirlpools. On top of the rock, which was not as high as the opposite boulder from Scylla, stood a black fig tree. Charybdis itself was out of sight. Three times a day she drank the waters of the sea and three times a day she spit them out again.
When Odysseus passed through the Strait of Messina, he was swept away by the whirlpool of Charybdis, after a shipwreck caused by the sacrilege committed against the oxen of Helios. She managed, however, to cling to the fig tree that was in front of the monster's cave and then to cling to a mast of the sunken ship, managing to escape and continue her journey.

Description
Daughter of Gaia and Pontus.
In Greek mythology, she was a marine creature that protected territorial boundaries in the sea.
In older times, Charybdis was more connected to legends of sailors and fishermen than to Greek mythology. Homer positioned it as a mythological entity, removing it from a simple regional legend. Homer called her "the divine Charybdis", using the same adjective applied to the beautiful cave nymph, Calypso.
During its existence as a nymph, Charybdis was characterized by extreme voracity. When Heracles passed close to Messina, taking Geryon's oxen, he stole some of the animals and devoured them. When trying to invest against the hero, who was trying to recover his cattle, Charybdis was struck by Zeus with a thunderbolt, and thrown into the depths of the sea, where she turned into a sea monster.
In Greek mythological tradition, Charybdis was usually related to Scylla, another sea monster. The two lived on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina, which separates the Italian peninsula from Sicily, and personified the dangers of sailing near rocks and whirlpools. On top of the rock, which was not as high as the opposite boulder from Scylla, stood a black fig tree. Charybdis itself was out of sight. Three times a day she drank the waters of the sea and three times a day she spit them out again.
When Odysseus passed through the Strait of Messina, he was swept away by the whirlpool of Charybdis, after a shipwreck caused by the sacrilege committed against the oxen of Helios. She managed, however, to cling to the fig tree that was in front of the monster's cave and then to cling to a mast of the sunken ship, managing to escape and continue her journey.