In Greek mythology, the siren who devoured sailors had six heads and twelve hands, and a waist ring surrounded by many vicious dogs guarded one side of the Messina Strait. Shula was once a beautiful mountain god (see Goddess). Circe (the witch who turned Odysseus's men into pigs) was jealous of her beauty, so she took a bath in Shula and put the terrible magic snake into the sea to make it a part of her body.

In reality, Shula is a dangerous rock on the side of Messina Strait (the strait between Italy Peninsula and Sicily), opposite the famous Kalibudis Vortex. The legends about Shula, Carydis and Sai Ren in Greek mythology are probably inspired by the rocks, rapids and eddies in the Messina Strait. In addition, there is a saying in English idioms that "between Scylla and Charybdis", which translates into "dilemma".

Scylla

The opening of the fourth season of Prison Break is full of surprises, among which Scylla is the most mysterious and important keyword. Scylla is also the name of episode 1 in the fourth season. What the hell is Scylla?

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Scylla image on the ancient jar

Introduction:

Simply put, Scylla is a siren in Greek mythology, with six heads and twelve arms. And another famous siren, Charybdis, were stationed on both sides of the narrow Messina Strait. In Homer's Odyssey, Scylla once brought great trouble to the returning Greek hero Odysseus, and even ate six crew members of Odysseus.

Scylla ate the crew.

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Appearance:

The shape of Scylla is extremely scary. Her upper body is a female image, similar to a mermaid. But her voice is like a dog barking. Because she has six dog heads around her waist, and each dog head has three rows of sharp teeth and a long neck. There are also twelve arms (some say twelve dog-like legs) hanging around the waist. In some fairy tales, she has a fish-like tail like many monsters in the water. In other descriptions, she has a cat tail.

Scylla has six dog heads around her waist.

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Name:

In English, her most common name is Scylla, and she also writes Skyla or Scylla. It's called ∑ κ in Greek? λ λ α, Skulla or σ κ? λ λ η, Skull \u According to research, her name comes from several Greek words:

1.skylaros, which means "hermit crab"

2.skylax, which means "shark like a dog"

3. skil. , meaning "shredded".

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Location:

It is generally believed that the mythical place where Scylla makes waves is in the Messina Strait between Italy and Sicily.

Messina str.

Others think it's at Cape schira in northwest Greece. In Italy, there is also a small town named after Scylla.

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Symbol:

According to myths and legends, Scylla is entrenched on a cliff on one side of the strait. The cliff is so high that you can't climb it even if you have ten hands and ten legs. Some people say that Scylla is hiding in the cave under the cliff, waiting for the passing ships to devour the sailors. Because Scylla has six heads like dogs, she can eat six sailors at a time. Because Scylla has become a sailor's nightmare.

And her partner, Charybdis, a monster on the other side of the narrow channel, has a huge mouth. She swallows a lot of seawater three times a day, and then spits it back into the sea, causing a huge whirlpool. All passing ships are doomed to be caught in the whirlpool and destroyed.

Schula and Calabridis.

It is precisely because of the narrowness of the strait that the two monsters have almost blocked the whole strait, and it is completely impossible to avoid the two monsters at the same time. So, if you want to escape from Scylla's six maws, you will get too close to Charybdis and get involved in the whirlpool. If you want to avoid the huge whirlpool created by Calvary, you will get too close to Scylla and be eaten. So the phrase "between Scylla and Charybdis" appeared in English, which means to be in a dilemma, and later it evolved into "between rocks and whirlpool" and later it became "between rocks and hard places". It means that no matter how you choose, there is no good result.

As can be seen from the above description, Scylla symbolizes the huge rocks, reefs, cliffs and other difficulties in the dangerous sea. The cymbal symbolizes the whirlpool rapids in the sea. Both are the most feared things for navigators. For multi-island Greece, sailing is the most familiar thing for Greeks. So gradually, in the Greek imagination, these two greatest fears were concretized into monsters.

find it difficult to advance or to retreat―be in a dilemma/plight

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Origin:

Scylla's father is Phorcys, one of the earliest sea gods in Greek mythology, while her mother has several different versions, one is Hecate, the goddess of night and underworld, the other is Crataeis, the other is Lamia, who is half man and half snake, and the other is Ceto, a sea monster.

Her sisters include Hesperides and Greeley, fairies guarding the golden apple orchard, and the gorgon (the most famous gorgon among gorgons is Medusa, Medusa).

It is also said that Scylla is the daughter of Triton and Lamia.

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Legend:

There are several different versions of the legend about Scylla.

1. Homer Homer Odyssey Edition:

Odysseus Odysseus

Odysseus is a Greek superhero. He made many ingenious plans in the Trojan War. Persuading the recalcitrant Achilles to take part in the war was his credit, and it was also his idea to sacrifice the hidden Trojan horse to win the war. After the war, Odysseus led his army back to Greece. But because of Poseidon's curse, he was reunited with his family after ten years of twists and turns. This is the story of Odyssey. Along the way, he defeated the cyclops, overcame the temptation of the banshee Sai Ren, crossed the Scylla Strait, and left many classic stories in history with the help of wisdom, courage and gods. Scylla is one of them. Details are as follows:

Circe, the witch who fell in love with Odysseus.

Before crossing the Scylla Strait, Circe, the witch who loves Odysseus, showed him the way forward. Remind him of the danger on the road ahead, the whistle, the channel occupied by the enemy between Scylla and Charybdis and so on. If you want to cross the strait, you can either choose to avoid Scylla and take the route near the Charybdis vortex. Either choose to avoid Calybdis and take the route near Scylla Cliff. According to Circe's suggestion, all Odysseus will be swallowed up by Scylla, but Scylla will certainly lose, but it will not be completely annihilated. So Odysseus took Circe's advice and chose Scylla.

I believe everyone is very familiar with the story of Sai Ren, the siren. Because of its danger, the word siren has evolved into the meaning of today's alarm. In order to avoid being prey of the siren, Odysseus sealed the ears of all the crew with wax and tied himself to a post. Finally escaped. Later, when he came to the strait where the two monsters were stationed, Odysseus avoided the huge whirlpool of Calvary and approached Scylla's side. Scylla really appeared and ate six crew members. However, Odysseus and others took the opportunity to cross the strait.

Odysseus crossed the channel.

The following story is even more interesting. Odysseus, who made great sacrifices to cross the strait, was punished by Zeus for stealing the cow of the sun god. Zeus smashed Odysseus' ship with a thunder, and Odysseus was washed back to the channel. This time, he avoided Scylla and chose between Scylla and Charybdis. It took a lot of trouble to escape.

2.Ovid Ovid version:

Glaucus pursued Scylla.

In Ovid's version, Scylla was a beautiful young fairy. Later, it was captured by Rakusz, the sea god. Glaucus chased Scylla crazily, but Scylla ran away desperately. Glaucus found the witch Circe and used magic to make Scylla fall in love with him. As a result, the witch Circe fell in love with Glaucus who came to ask for help, but Glaucus only loved Scylla. Out of jealousy and hatred for Scylla, Circe used magic to turn a beautiful woman into a monster. After being turned into a monster, Scylla hid on the shore of Messina Strait and ate all the sailors passing by angrily.

Scylla struggled to escape.

This is very similar to what happened to Scylla's sister Medusa. Medusa used to be a beautiful woman, but it was taken away by Poseidon, the sea god. On one occasion, Medusa was pushed down by Poseidon in the temple of Athena and forced to XX. Unexpectedly, Athena happened to see it and thought it was disrespectful, so she turned the victim Medusa into a monster with poisonous snakes and eyes.

3. Others:

Another story says that Scylla was killed by Hercules, the son of Zeus, and was later resurrected by her father Fauci.

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Quote:

In Homer's epic The Odyssey, when the witch Circe told Odysseus how to cross the channel, Odysseus impulsively said that he would fight Scylla to the end. Circe blamed Odysseus for his illusion:

Do you have to fight in your heart forever?

The bloody toil of fighting?

Old rival, won't you give in to the immortal god?

That nightmare won't die, it is eternal evil-terror, pain and chaos; No one can beat her, no force can beat her, and the only way is to run away.

Circe made it clear that although Scylla has the appearance of a monster, it is actually an immortal god. There is no way for mankind to fight against this symbol of terror, pain and chaos. This passage is also the source of the statement about Scylla quoted by PB in the fourth season. Of course, Odysseus finally listened to Circe's advice, avoided confrontation, and crossed the strait with the lives of six sailors as a cover.

Specific analysis of PB4Scylla

KRANK, the head of the company, is usually called a general by outsiders. Even for the CIA, he is a very mysterious figure. In fact, krank is from Russia, the illegitimate child of a Russian super oil tycoon and his lover, a beautiful American model. Krank's family has a deep underworld background, and his business covers oil, arms and even drugs. But also has close ties with the KGB, the intelligence agency of the former Soviet Union. Cronk's father is a family friend of a former KGB officer. Because krank is an illegitimate child, he can't openly enjoy the right of family inheritance in Russia. Although his father and other brothers in the family love krank very much and cultivate him in business, she still has an innate sense of inferiority. Therefore, krank's ideal is to go out of Russia and establish his own new kingdom in the western world. Krank was sent to the KGB at an early age and received harsh training from the KGB. He is an expert in weapons, counter-terrorism and espionage. Okay, cronk is the name he gave himself. This means that the five initials of the KGB are still American nemesis killers. Because krank had been lurking in the KGB for many years, he didn't take any action in the United States until he was 40 years old. That's why no one in America even knows the origin of the CIA. After that, krank extended its reach to the United States by relying on the family's abundant funds, but krank was not an ordinary gangster, but an intellectual with great brains and advocating technology. On the one hand, he openly engaged in oil business in the Far East, secretly engaged in arms trading and sold arms to South America and the Middle East. On the other hand, he established a large-scale technology company in the United States, which is what people usually call "the company".

On the surface, the company is a high-tech company that studies oil and mineral exploration technology. In fact, it is a research and development base for high-tech weapons and studies some laser weapons. Scylla is not a prop for producing fake speculation, but a high-tech weapon system.

KRANK fantasizes about developing a high-tech laser weapon. Simply put, this weapon is a high-power laser gun. Laser is a kind of single-frequency and highly coherent light, which can produce hundreds of millions of degrees of high temperature on the irradiated target in an instant, thus destroying conventional weapons made of metals such as tanks and warships, and even hitting aircraft carriers. It can also easily destroy satellite systems, and laser cannons are non-kinetic weapons. Without the necessary recoil of conventional weapons, it can easily launch millions of watts of high power. Another portable high-power laser gun can easily defeat soldiers of traditional automatic rifles such as AK-47 and M 16 in personnel confrontation, thus winning an overwhelming victory in traditional wars. Therefore, it is a high-tech weapon project that all countries in the world, including China, are actively developing.

After controlling the traditional force, that is, the US military, we can control the US Zheng government and further replace it. After incorporating the US Zheng government, we can use the influence of the US Zheng government to directly control and integrate all countries in the world. Whoever refuses will be defeated by Scylla. Therefore, this high-tech laser weapon is like killing dragons, and it can command the world as soon as it comes out. Dare not refuse. By then, all countries in the world, including China, will submit to the United States, and krank, which is rooted in Russia, will fully benefit Russia, so that the polar bear, which should belong to the second strongest country in the world, will immediately wake up and become the richest country in the world. All the resources, minerals, oil and land in the world will belong to KRANK Group (or Russia).

This super laser weapon research and development project is called SCYLLA, which is more powerful than the latest high-tech weapon in the United States-electromagnetic gun.

In the face of this grand blueprint that has never been seen before or since, no one is unmoved. It may be anyone's dream to dominate the earth like a dinosaur. If krank's plan can really come true, what's so rare about giving it the position of president of the United States? Therefore, krank easily persuaded some senior members of the US Zheng family to join the company, and even the US military has defected, thus supporting krank.

However, a limiting factor in the development of laser weapons is that the laser power to be excited must be high enough to be used as a weapon, and the laser is easy to decay in the air. In rainy days, lasers such as dust are also easily scattered by particles in the atmosphere, and the transmission distance is not far. Therefore, the energy used to excite the laser must be very strong, which makes the laser generating equipment very bulky and inconvenient to carry.

Only ruby can provide weapons-grade laser applications for lasers. Scylla project needs a lot of high-quality natural rubies, otherwise Scylla will be a waste product without its core soul. For the company, money is definitely not a problem, but everything is ready, only the east wind. But the question is where to find so many rubies, and the jewelry industry is definitely not good.

Ruby is extremely rare and belongs to non-renewable resources, and its veins are even rarer than diamond mines. There are few countries that can produce rubies in the world, and Myanmar and Laos have the largest reserves and the best quality.

There are many kinds of gems in Myanmar, with good texture and extremely rich reserves. Mainly ruby, sapphire, crystal stone, diamond, topaz, amber and so on. The most famous producing area is the ancient animal husbandry and gem area in the northeast of mandalay province. Known as the "treasure land" of Myanmar.

Gu Mo mining area is about 400 square kilometers, with mineralization area of 1000 square kilometers. Mainly produces rubies and sapphires. The exposed strata in this area are mainly Archean granulite, calcareous gneiss and granite, with pegmatite and syenite intrusions, and skarn marble belt containing ruby and magnesium is distributed. Residual slope deposit and impact ruby deposit are formed near marble belt. This deposit has always been the most important source of the best rubies in the world, such as "pigeon blood red".

However, the problem in Myanmar is that Myanmar is a socialist country with militarized management, and most of its mineral deposits have been proved. Although the political situation in Myanmar is turbulent and widely condemned by developed countries, Myanmar and China have always been good friends and have a deep relationship. At present, it is not easy to directly control ruby deposits in Myanmar by cooperating with China to develop oil and gas projects. In this way, the company came up with a circuitous route, starting from Laos and solving Myanmar in a roundabout way.

Laos covers an area of 236,800 square kilometers. 80% of the territory is mountainous and plateau, and most of it is covered by forests. Laos is rich in mineral resources, but the degree of exploration is very low. At present, more than 20 kinds of iron, gold, copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum, antimony, tin, manganese, bauxite, potassium salt, gypsum, coal, kaolin, pyrophyllite, precious stones, graphite, asbestos, talc, limestone and quartz sand have been discovered. In a word, Laos has a low level of geological and mineral survey and even lower level of mineral resources development, which basically belongs to one of the underdeveloped areas in the world. Recently, a large number of sapphire deposits have been discovered in Laos. Due to the coexistence of rubies, it can be inferred that there must be a considerable ruby deposit in Laos. But Laos has always been a poor country and has not been noticed by the outside world. If we inject a lot of money, invest in Laos construction and secretly control Zhengzhou, Laos, we can achieve the goal of controlling ruby resources.

On the one hand, we can explore and exploit Laos and directly obtain ruby resources. On the other hand, we invested heavily in Laos, won the hearts of the Lao people, supported the rebels, swept the army, provoked disputes between Laos and Myanmar, secretly supplied Laos with a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, and used the Lao rebels to defeat Myanmar. Because two brothers in the neighborhood quarreled, it was not convenient for China to interfere. In the end, Myanmar will be defeated by Laos, so that the company can control all ruby mines in Myanmar.

By then, thousands of high-power laser guns can be manufactured, and the company can lift the veil and directly launch tough military actions to force the US ZF to submit.

KRANK's plan is foolproof and far-reaching, and only a few senior leaders of the company know about it, including LISA and other cardholders. The central control unit, the core of Scylla project, is only the size of a computer mainframe. It is the most important part of the company and is located in the safest place in the company's opinion. David Baker was specially hired to tailor an anti-theft device for it.

For security reasons, the key to start Scylla-a set of ciphertext-is divided into six parts, each of which is written on a memory card and kept by six senior managers of the company. This is the cardholder. Only when six cards are inserted into the slot of Scylla core at the same time can Scylla be started and the whole plan be copied. The whole Scylla is a huge system, including energy supply, power control and mechanical control. Electromagnetic control, computer simulation, security defense, etc. The connection between the core and the peripheral experimental system is extremely complicated. If Scylla is to be moved to two places, it will not be completed in a few days, otherwise it will not be built back if it is demolished. Generally speaking, it takes at least a week to disassemble Scylla, instead of unplugging it like your refrigerator. So when General krank found out something was wrong, when someone started peeking at Scylla, he suspected that the CIA had come to you, especially when a guy named Don Self could find his own photo. Since then, he has been trying to move Scylla.

Don Self himself doesn't know the purpose of Scylla. He only got the inside information that Scylla would "cause fatal damage to national security and interests". This sentence is enough to keep the CIA busy. The Scofield brothers and Majed Marhoum certainly don't know what Scylla is for. Because of their involvement, they had to be pawns of the CIA and try to steal Scylla. Only the capabilities of the CIA and the interests of national security can pardon these federal wanted criminals. Once they die, it's not a loss for the CIA at all. The CIA usually makes them "responsible" for their internal agents, not to mention a few fugitives, so it's not like Tang began to brag that they can become a "country" when they die.