In particular, Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian mythology celebrated the deeds of war and the hunter-god Ninurta, whom the Angrim credited with slaying eleven monsters on an expedition into the mountains, including a seven-headed serpent (possibly identical to Mushmahhu) and Bashmu, whose constellation (despite having only one head) was later associated by the Greeks with the Hydra. The Hydra had many parallels in ancient Middle Eastern Religions. This is why she was said to have been chosen as a job for Hercules, so that Hercules would die. She was said to be the sister of the lion of Nemea and thus sought revenge for his death at the hands of Hercules. She was raised by Hera under a plane tree near the Amimone spring at Lerna. The Hydra was the daughter of Typhon and Echidna and in some traditions was the mother of Chimera. Beneath its waters was an entrance to the Underworld that the Hydra guarded. The Hydra possessed the virtue of regenerating two heads for every one it lost or had amputated, and its lair was the lake of Lerna in the gulf of the Argolid (near Nauplia), although archaeologists have confirmed that this sacred place predates even the Mycenaean city of Argos, for Lerna was the site of the myth of the Danaids.
In Greek mythology, the Lernaean Hydra (Λερναῖα Ὕδρα / Lernaīa Hýdra) was an ancient and ruthless chthonic water monster in the form of a polycephalic serpent (whose number of heads ranges from three, five, seven or nine to a hundred, and even ten thousand depending on the source) and poisonous breath that Hercules killed in the second of his twelve labors.
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