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Echidna's family tree varies by author. [4] The oldest genealogy relating to Echidna, Hesiod's Theogony (c. 8th – 7th century BC), is unclear on several points. According to Hesiod, Echidna was born to a "she" who was probably meant by Hesiod to be the sea goddess Ceto, making Echidna's likely father the sea god Phorcys; however the "she" might instead refer to the Oceanid Callirhoe, which ...
Ceto (or Keto), a marine goddess who was the mother of all sea monsters as well as Echidna and other dragons and monsters. Echidna, wife of Typhon and mother of monsters. Kampê, a dracaena that was charged by Cronus with the job of guarding the gates of Tartarus; she was slain by Zeus when he rescued the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires from their ...
Key: The names of the generally accepted Olympians [11] are given in bold font.. Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font. Key: The names of the Titans have a green background.
Typhon mythology is part of the Greek succession myth, which explained how Zeus came to rule the gods. Typhon's story is also connected with that of Python (the serpent killed by Apollo), and both stories probably derived from several Near Eastern antecedents. Typhon was (from c. 500 BC) also identified with the Egyptian god of destruction Set.
Zeus aiming his thunderbolt at a winged and snake-footed Typhon. Chalcidian black-figured hydria (c. 540–530 BC), Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 596). [5] Typhon was a fearsome monster of Greek mythology, the last son of Gaia. He is usually envisioned as humanoid from the waist up, serpentine below, almost the size of a mountain.
Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as the Graeae (naming only two: Pemphredo, and Enyo), the Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale and Medusa), [6] probably Echidna (though the text is unclear on this point) [7] and Ceto's "youngest, the awful snake who guards the apples all of gold in the secret places of the dark earth at its great bounds", [8] also called the Drakon Hesperios ...
According to Hesiod, the Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna. [3] It had poisonous breath and blood so virulent that even its scent was deadly. [ 4 ] The Hydra possessed many heads , the exact number of which varies according to the source.
Children Geryon and Echidna In Greek mythology , Chrysaor ( Ancient Greek : Χρυσάωρ , romanized : Khrysáor , gen. Χρυσάορος ), "he who has a golden sword" (from χρυσός "golden" and ἄορ "sword"]) was the brother of the winged horse Pegasus , often depicted as a young man, the son of Poseidon and Medusa , born when ...