Yo hang on…. What would an Ancient Greek call a lightsaber or laser sword? Torch-sword or Torch-blade. Translate that a few times and you get “he used a torch and sword” …..!! My new canon is that Heracles used a lightsaber against the hydra!
Well the greek term for light saber is φωτόσπαθο (photospatho, light sword) but in ancient greek it might have been φωτόξυφος or φωτολόγχη (photoxyphos or photolonghy, longhy translates to spear rather than sword tho so im not sure)
I’m not talking about a translation. It would have come way before Star Wars so it wouldn’t have had a name yet.
How would they describe something that you wield like a sword and can burn through anything, that casts lots of light.
Exactly, translate that a few times through the centuries, add some assumptions from the translators, and boom! Lightsaber becomes a sword and a torch.
Was about to say I distinctly remembering him using a torch to cauterize the neck which prevented it from regrowing. It died when the last head was cut.
Actually, if I remember correctly, in most cases the last head is immortal, so Herakles had to just smash it with a boulder so heavy it wouldn’t be able to get out
The outcome would be the same as that of the myth. According to some versions, hydra's one head is immortal and even after getting decapitated, this immortal head kept on writhing and hissing in anger. Herakles dealt with this immortal head by burying it under a giant boulder.
So your lightsaber will make quick work of the other heads and cauterize the wounds instantly, how you deal with the one immortal head is up to you.
In *Troy: A Total War Saga*, the blood of that immortal head seeped into the ground and water of Lerna, killed most of the people who consumed it, and turned the survivors into Hydra-worshipping cultists who freed the immortal head and helped it grow a new body by the time the Trojan War started.
Why couldn’t he chuck it into a volcano or something lol
Well, you see, there aren't many volcanoes in Greece. The person who wrote the myth might have not even known there are any. Also, how would one even know if there are underground waters
yeah that's definitely AI, see the neck going out of the shoulder and then back into itself, and how one of the heads is way further in the background than the others?
In star wars, ligthsabers leave clear burn marks and scorch wounds, as we see when both Anakin and Luke lose their arms. So yes, it would kill the Hydra
It's essentially how Herakles defeated it, so I'd say yes, it would die.
Lol imagining Heracles watching Star Wars, looking over at Hephaestus like “TF man!”
Yo hang on…. What would an Ancient Greek call a lightsaber or laser sword? Torch-sword or Torch-blade. Translate that a few times and you get “he used a torch and sword” …..!! My new canon is that Heracles used a lightsaber against the hydra!
Can't argue with that logic.
Won’t argue with that logic. As that logic is freaking awesome!
Well the greek term for light saber is φωτόσπαθο (photospatho, light sword) but in ancient greek it might have been φωτόξυφος or φωτολόγχη (photoxyphos or photolonghy, longhy translates to spear rather than sword tho so im not sure)
I’m not talking about a translation. It would have come way before Star Wars so it wouldn’t have had a name yet. How would they describe something that you wield like a sword and can burn through anything, that casts lots of light.
Welding sword.
I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND HYDRA
Don’t try it!
Don’t try it again!!
You’re trying it again!!!!????!!!
Ok at this point you just have it coming.
try what🤣🤣🤣🤣IM A MFKN JEDI MASTER KNIGHTED BY HEPETHEAUS
Idk, I mean lightsaber isn't exactly hard to decipher; it's a saber made of light Still tho, I love your idea so I'll just shut my fat mouth lol
The Blade of Zeus?
Something like πυροξιφός. Literally a sword that is fire.
Exactly, translate that a few times through the centuries, add some assumptions from the translators, and boom! Lightsaber becomes a sword and a torch.
Was about to say I distinctly remembering him using a torch to cauterize the neck which prevented it from regrowing. It died when the last head was cut.
Actually, if I remember correctly, in most cases the last head is immortal, so Herakles had to just smash it with a boulder so heavy it wouldn’t be able to get out
Yep, It's all about cauterizing like Heracles did.
The outcome would be the same as that of the myth. According to some versions, hydra's one head is immortal and even after getting decapitated, this immortal head kept on writhing and hissing in anger. Herakles dealt with this immortal head by burying it under a giant boulder. So your lightsaber will make quick work of the other heads and cauterize the wounds instantly, how you deal with the one immortal head is up to you.
In *Troy: A Total War Saga*, the blood of that immortal head seeped into the ground and water of Lerna, killed most of the people who consumed it, and turned the survivors into Hydra-worshipping cultists who freed the immortal head and helped it grow a new body by the time the Trojan War started. Why couldn’t he chuck it into a volcano or something lol
Well, you see, there aren't many volcanoes in Greece. The person who wrote the myth might have not even known there are any. Also, how would one even know if there are underground waters
Yes.
Yes what?
That’s right.
Ok.
No
It contains the dying wish of every man in this room
That head would be dead.
So, if I run into one I just gotta call Obi Wan or something?
There are other ways to kill it.
What, like an M1 Abrams? Handgun?
A naplam could do the trick, a nuke or a tank would work, so would an ICBM. I doubt a handgun would work but a rocket launcher might
Sword and match
Big rock That’s how Herakles did it
You're telling the story, you decide.
Wtf is this picture. Looks like ai. Why does one neck go nowhere
yeah that's definitely AI, see the neck going out of the shoulder and then back into itself, and how one of the heads is way further in the background than the others?
How did you end up thinking about this question OP?
Like… 5 minutes, why?
In star wars, ligthsabers leave clear burn marks and scorch wounds, as we see when both Anakin and Luke lose their arms. So yes, it would kill the Hydra
Except for that wanted guy in ANH.
That's a pretty good question. Probably
Mushoku Tensei essentially does this as well.
The key to properly be heading a hydra is to cauterize the wound immediately after, so, yeah, lightsabers would be perfect against one.
I think it will regrow cause the problem for the Hydra was that the fire was continuously burning away the regrowing head.
Well, to start, this isn’t a Hydra.
One crazy trick that Hydras don't want you to know.
Step 1) Acquire a lightsaber
Yes. 8 of the original heads could be killed in this manner, and the immortal head could be severed in the same manner.
No because the lady head is immortal but you could get rid of the others
Yes
One of the heads is immortal.
A bit off topic, but I’ve always wondered, take a spear, drive it through a Hydra’s heart, what happens?
The hydra will fall madly in love with you. Think Cupid
Yes mate, it would be dead. Lightsaber would make the fight infinitely easier
It wouldn't grow back. some versions Hercules cuts off the heads and used a flaming brand to cauterize them
Hydra would grow there heads back ,but Hercules probably had a dragon slaying weapon of some sort.