Flying Head

Also known as Big Head and Great-Head, this is an Iroquois demon. Basically, he’s a huge flaming, winged head, and he eats livestock. Because he has no body, all he does is eat.

According to Iroquois myth, he ate hearthstones and fire instead of the chestnuts that were roasting, and he internally combusted, and thus was destroyed. I cannot be sure if this story is 100% accurate, as I’m not Iroquois, and most of my research comes from GodChecher.

I don’t often post demons here, unless they amuse me or are super-interesting like Pazuzu (who did both!), so this demon interests me as well. If anyone remembers the 90s show Third Rock from the Sun, then they should remember the Big Giant Head:






No relation to Flying Head.

Geryon

Today's Deity of the Day comes to us from Greece.


Also known as: Geryones, Geyron
Geryon is technically not a deity, but a monster. He was the grandson of the fearsome Medusa. He was describes as a monster with one head, three bodies, two arms, and some accounts say he had six legs. He owned a two-headed hound named Orthrus (brother of the more famous Cerberus). Geryon was the keeper of a herd of beautiful red cattle.

In the legend of Hercules’ ten tasks, he had to kill Geryon. He did, of course, succeed, and herded the cattle back to the city. That part took him almost a year.
Geryon was also in Dante’s Divine Comedy, as a death-demon and the western direction. He lives between the seventh (violence) and eighth (fraud) circles of Hell. In this story, however, he is a winged beast with the tail of a scorpion and the body of a lion.