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    Where do monsters come from? Popular culture has a voracious appetite for monsters, and games perhaps more than anything else. We fight them in their hordes, summon them, collect them and befriend them. With each new release, we need more monsters, distinctive but still familiar enough that we can comprehend them and relate to them. Where do they all come from?
    Sure, some of them are simply made up. But it's surprisingly difficult to create a monster that's totally new and still makes sense to us. More often, they're combinations of other things - either things from the mundane world or remixes of earlier monsters. This is true even of Cthulhu - famously meant to be incomprehensible by our puny human minds:
    But what about the ones that aren't 'made up'? Plenty of monsters come from stories than have already been told, especially from mythology. But it's far from a straight line from the ancient source to the modern interpretation, whether that be in a game, movie or other form of media. Often, even in ancient sources we see different forms and interpretations of particular monsters depending where and when we look. Let's have a look at one particular monster, probably not the first mythological monster that springs to mind, but likely one whose name you know.
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