In medieval heraldry, the Chimera represented the impossible.
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| Fire-breathing
she-monster of fantastic proportions, having the head of
a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of the serpent,
symbolic of a volcanic mountain in Lycia where it
resided, upon whose top resorted lions, the middle goats,
and the bottom serpents. It was the child of Echidna and Typhon and was slain by Bellerophon of Corinth. In medieval heraldry, the Chimera represented the impossible. |