Echidna_Colter

__Echidna __ “The mother of all monsters” __About __
 * She is a monster with the head of a woman and body of a serpent
 * Daughter of **Tartarus** - pit beneath the earth and **Gaea** - earth
 * Mated with her brother **Typhon**– heads of a hundred dragons on each hand
 * Together they produced a variety of offspring:
 * **Cerberus ** – three headed dog that guarded the underworld
 * **Orthrus ** – two headed, serpent tailed dog
 * **Hydra ** – nine headed water beast
 * **Chimera **– fire breathing monster with the head of a lion, behind of a goat, and tail of a snake
 * **Sphinx **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> – female headed monster with the body of a lion, eagle wings, and a tail of a serpent
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Ladon **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">– hundred headed dragon that guarded the Hesperides
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Nemean **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> the Lion – beast with indestructible skin
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Represented or presided over the corruptions of the earth:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Rot
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Slime
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Smelly waters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Illness
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Disease

__<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mythological Story __

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Echidna is a goddess who has the head and torso of a woman and the body of a snake. Echidna was a mother by Typhon and together they had many varieties of offspring, making her “the mother of all monsters”. Echidna lived in a cave underneath the holy part of the earth called “Armia, couch of Typhoeus”. There, she is far from the deathless gods and mortal men and able to eat raw flesh. When Echidna and her mate attacked the Olympians, Zeus punished Typhon by sealing him under Mount Etna. Zeus allowed Echidna and her children to live as a challenge to future heroes. Echidna was finally killed while she was sleeping by **Argus Panoptes**, the hundred-eyed giant.

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