And these mythic monsters are awe-inspiring.

Aboriginals speak of a devouring mythic monster named the Bunyip, who lies behind Australia's landscape.

In unlikely shades of pink, Mike Kelley's large photo-diptych "Chainsaw Sculpture of Big Foot and Plaster Statue of John Glenn" contrasts nature and culture as well as mythic monster and mythic hero.

Di waited, hoping Lenny would see the man, and not the mythic monster.

Surrounding this were the "waters of chaos", the cosmic sea, home to mythic monsters defeated and slain by God (Exodus 20:4 warns against making an image "of anything that is in the waters under the earth").

But of all the destructive powers in our world, none resembles the ferocity and form of those mythic monsters quite like tornadoes.

But those mythic monsters were as dwarves to the waves that inhabit other oceans.

"He was a mythic monster."

Barking dogs, radiant babies, flying saucers, mythic monsters and all kinds of hyperactive humans animate Haring's delirious cosmic comedy.

We would be known, and we would be hunted, and we would be fought in this glittering urban wilderness as no mythic monster has ever been fought by man before.