Talk:Libyan Sibyl

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I've been cleaning up the disambiguation page Lamia and bringing it into conformance with MOS:DP. The following section had been living there, but it can't stay. After spending the past half-hour going back and forth between Libyan Sibyl and Lamia (mythology), I still can't make heads or tails of whether this is a different Lamia than Lamia (mythology) and thus should have her own page, or not, or what.

So I'm bringing it here, in the hopes that someone competent can either incorporate it, trash it, or use it to begin a new article.Sanguinity 23:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lamia in Libya is a kind of female vampire, who is said be extraordinarly attractive and extremely dangerous, especially to males and children. In one legend she is said to have been a personification of, and Queen of Libya who, on account of Zeus' affection toward her, drew the wrath of the goddess Hera, who killed all of Lamia's children save Scylla. Either a curse of Hera's or the grief of losing her children caused Lamia to turn into a monster. Thereafter she sought revenge for her lost children, roaming the earth, killing any infant she came upon, much like the Spanish tales of La Llorona. According to Diodorus Siculus's version of the story, Lamia has the ability to take out and put in her eyes, and had a Sibyl's second sight.

15 years later! I will not be able to help, but I have been caught in a similar back-and-forth with the Sybil Rock, the Libyan Sibyl, and Lamia. It is very confusing and perhaps will never be resolved. Both of these Sibyls are described as descended from Lamia, both seem to be connected to Libya, and it is hard to resist wondering if they are the same ... but how could they be! Aside from the sources being unclear. I think it may arise from an error in Pausanias, either made by him, or an early error by an editor. Taquito1 (talk) 16:20, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]