What sort of creature is a "Charybdis"?

Question

i saw this mythological movie, warriors are on a ship and a lady in the sea said "Charybdis will be attacking" i didn't really saw the entire movie.

Answer 1

It is a whirlpool. Scylla is a rock monster. So when someone says I am caught between a rock and a hard place they are talking are about Scylla and Charybdis.

Answer 2

A whirlpool, likely tidally generated.

Answer 3

Charybdis was a particular mythological sucking whirlpool that was famous for destroying ships. It features in The Odyssey and Jason and the Argonauts. Some versions of the myth portray it as being an actual living entity that eats the ships and then vomits them back up.

It sounds wrong to say that it would be "attacking". Maybe you misheard the movie. Or it might be some degenerate version of the myth making it an actual monster.

Answer 4

Charybdis is a mythological sea monster who would cause whirlpools to form. She began life as a nymph but was transformed as punishment for angering Hermes.  

Answer 5

In Greek mythology, Kharybdis or Charybdis  was a sea monster, the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. She takes form as a monstrous mouth and swallows huge amounts of water three times a day before belching them back out again, creating whirlpools. Charybdis was originally a naiad, sea-nymph who stole Heracles' cattle until Zeus became angry, threw her into the sea and, as punishment, turned her into a sea monster.

Rhegium is situated on the Strait of Messina, which separates Italy and Sicily. Just N of Rhegium the ship on which Paul was traveling would have had to navigate past the promontory Scylla on the Italian side of the strait and the whirlpool Charybdis on the Sicilian side, both considered hazardous by ancient mariners. A day after their arrival at Rhegium a S wind sprang up and this moved them safely through the strait and NNW to Puteoli.—Ac 28:13. Which here it's simply a whirlpool.

Answer 6

The Odyssey is the movie I believe you are referring to.

Charybdis is a whirlpool but they thought it was a mad being that sucked the oceans and ships near it. It was located in a trenched place with a multiple headed spider demon thing named Scylla

Answer 7

Charybdis was a whirlpool at the western corner of Sicily, opposite the toe of Italy,  Scylla, a monster with six heads and six tentacles, lived on a cliff on the "toe," and it was almost impossible for any ship to sail through the narrow strait between the two without falling prey to one or the other.  Odysseus (Ulysses) chose the lesser of two evils and sailed his ship closer to Scylla, so that only six of his men would be lost rather than the entire ship.  Aeneas (whose author, living 700 year later, knew more geography).chose to avoid such an agonizing decision by sailing the long way arond Sicily.  Even today. the expression "between Scylla  and Charybids" means between two comparably bad alternatives.