what are chimeras?

Answer 1

a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail
in a person it can mean someone who has 2 different sets of dna. usually a result of twins that ended up being just one child. starts during the cell divison stage.

Answer 2

In Greek mythology, the Chimera is a monstrous creature made of the parts of multiple animals. Chimera was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and sister of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra.

Descriptions vary – some say it had the body of a goat, the tail of a snake or dragon and the head of a lion, though others say it had heads of both the goat and lion, with a snake for a tail. It is generally considered to have been female, despite the mane adorning its lion's head. All descriptions, however, agree that it breathed fire from one or more of its heads. Sighting the chimera was a sign of storms, shipwrecks, and natural disasters (particularly volcanos). In Medieval Christian art, the chimera appears as a symbol of Satanic forces.

While there are different genealogies, in one version it mated with its brother Orthrus and mothered the Sphinx and the Nemean Lion.

Chimera was finally defeated by Bellerophon with the help of Pegasus, the winged horse, at the command of King Iobates of Lycia. There are varying descriptions of its death – some say merely that Bellerophon ran it through with his spear, whereas others say that he fitted his spear point with lead that melted when exposed to Chimera's fiery breath and consequently killed it. Another story is that Bellerophon chopped off the three heads of the Chimera, and it fell to the ground dead.

The myths of the Chimera can be found in Apollodorous' Library (book 1), Virgil's Aeneid (book 6), Homer's Iliad (book 6), Ovid's Metamorphoses (book VI 339; IX 648) and Hesiod's Theogony.

Chimera picture: http://castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com/Images/Scans/LoD/chimera.jpg

Answer 3

A chimera is a delusion, and many times it is a very nice delusion. Not the same as a mirage though.

I know a website that promotes the appreciation and inspiration of chimeras.

Answer 4

In medical science they're extremely rare. It's when two fertilized eggs of fraternal twins fuse together and the child is born with two sets of DNA.

However, in Greek mythology, it's a fire-breathing animal with a lion's head, a goat's middle, a dragon's rear, and a snake's tail.

Answer 5

I'm sorry I just had to laugh my a$$ off at the first answer cause she is thinking of chimneas!

Answer 6

They are out door fireplaces.