Damasen

A gigantic son of Earth (Gaea), whom his mother once conceived of herself and brought forth by herself. From his birth, a thick hairy beard covered his chin. At his birth, Quarrel (Eris) was his nurse, spears his mother's pap, carnage his bath, the corselet his swaddlings. Under the heavy weight of those long broad limbs, a warlike infant, he cast lances as a boy; touching the sky, from birth he shook a spear born with him; no sooner did he appear than Eileithyia armed the nursling with a shield.

He slew a giant snake that was praying on unsuspecting wayfarers and which had made many a victim, among whom Tylos, the brother of the naiad Moria.

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