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Depiction of the giant Talos god armed with a stone on the obverse of a silver didrachm from Phaistos, Crete, dating to circa 300 to 270 BC. ( Public domain )
Talos and His Mission: Protecting Crete from its Enemies
Plato claimed that Talos protected Crete by travelling around the island three times a day. Taking into account that Crete is the biggest island in Greece, going around it three times a day would have been an enormous task, meaning that either Talos was a giant creature, or he had other means of transportation, such as flying, which may explain why he is sometimes depicted with wings.
When any enemy ship approached Crete, Talos would send huge rocks and destroy the ships from a distance. If enemies managed to get on the land of Crete, Talos would make his body exceptionally hot and kill the enemies.

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