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Charybdis: The Gigantic Whirlpool Monster of Greek Mythology - (Greek Mythology Explained)

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History: Charybdis was a giant sea-monster whose gigantic whirlpool swirled in the straits of Messina opposite the cliffs of the monster Scylla. She was the daimon of the tides with her thrice daily sucking and expulsion of water - mentioned by Homer - imagined as the cause of the three high and low tides of the day. The ancient Greek scholia on Homer’s Odyssey offers several different stories on the origin of the monster, Charybdis. In one, she was apparently a daughter of Pontos (Sea) and Gaia (Earth) who laid siege to the land with her waves. Zeus, the most powerful god, was angry with her action and soon captured and chained her to the sea-bed as punishment. In another story, with the same outcome, she was a insatiable women who stole cattle from Herakles. Angering Zeus once again, he sent her down into the sea with a powerful thunderbolt. "He [Odysseus] had come to the island of Sicily to the sacred herds of Sol [Helios the Sun] . . . Borne on to Charybdis, who three times a day sucked down the water and three times belched it up, by Tiresias' warning he passed by."

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How Charybdis Functions in the Odyssey: Odysseus was passing through the the Strait of Messina and Odysseus knew the dangers presented by the sea monsters, Scylla and Charybdis, but Circe told him to sail closer to Scylla because he would lose a few men to Scylla while sailing close to Charybdis would cause him to lose his men, ship, and his life. Odysseus sailed closer to Scylla and only lost six men. On his journey back, Odysseus encountered Charybdis once again. This time, he only had himself and small scraps of his ship he formed into a raft. When he encountered Charybdis this time, she was sucking the seas downward and Odysseus survived this by hanging onto a limb of the fig tree of her rock, but his raft fell down the abyss. Odysseus waited for Charybdis to relent the water and the raft when she expelled the ocean. Odysseus recovered the raft and paddled away before Charybdis could suck his raft, body, and his life into the depths of the sea. As Odysseus sailed through the strait where Scylla and Charybdis resided, the council of Circe advises Odysseus that, ... ¨If he were to sail closer to Scylla, he would lose only a few men, while sailing close to Charybdis he would lose his men, his ship, and his life. Odysseus begrudgingly did as advised, and lost six men from his crew.¨

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Atsma, Aaron J. “KHARYBDIS.” HERMES MYTHS 6 FAVOUR - Greek Mythology, www.theoi.com/Pontios/Kharybdis.html.
http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Kharybdis.html

Geller, Prof., ¨Charybdis¨, Mythology.net, April 8, 2017. Accessed-  10 December, 2018

mythology.net/greek/greek-creatures/charybdis/

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Theme Or Ideas: Being between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom coming from Greek mythology, meaning "having to choose between two evils". Many other idioms, such as "on the horns of a dilemma", "between the devil and the deep blue sea", and "between a rock and a hard place" express related meanings. She is still credited with being in control of daily tidal influences, which represents being trapped with two equally unpalatable choices.