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	Echidna (mythology)
		Echidna ("she viper") was a female monster in Greek mythology, usually considered offspring of Uranus and Gaia, or sometimes Ceto.
		She had the face of a beautiful woman but the body of a serpent.
		When she and her mate, Typhon, attacked the Olympians, Zeus beat them back but allowed Typhon, Echidna and their children to live as a challenge to future heroes.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ec/Echidna_(mythology).html (62 words)

	Mythical Creatures and Monsters
		Crommyonian Sow was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna.
		The Nemean Lion was an offspring of Typhon and Echidna.
		Ladon was an offspring of Typhon and Echidna, or of Phorcys and Ceto.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/beasts.html (6800 words)

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		Echidnas are a truly remarkable, and highly unusual species that have walked this earth, virtually unchanged, since the time of the dinosaurs.
		Echidna (who has appeared in both Universal's Hercules - The Legendary Journeys and Disney's animated Hercules series (based on their animated film), though neither version is particularly accurate) was considered the mother of all monsters, and she was to many.
		The echidna then draws its tongue back into its tiny mouth (with a gape of about five millimetres), where the food is crushed against the roof of the mouth for digestion, due to the fact that echidnas have no teeth.
	www.angelfire.com /cantina/enclave/echidnas/page1.html (823 words)

	.:Monsters of Mythology:. \| A Fun Website About Mythological Monsters
		Echidna is also known as "Mother of All Monsters" because she created every major monster in greek mythology with her mate, Typhon, a 100-headed monster also with the bodies of 100 snakes instead of legs.
		Echidna's top half is a nymph and her bottom half is a snake, although many artists have also rendered her with wings, four legs, etc. She has also been drawn with two snake tails instead of one.
		Mythology suggests that she was the daughter of Tartarus (a man in greek mythology) and Gaia (the goddess that personifies the Earth), but Hesiod, a very famous poet, claims that she was the daughter of Ceto (a terryfying and grotesque sea monster) and Phorcys (a god of the sea).
	www.freewebs.com /latin1a-monsters/echidna.htm (207 words)

	Australia Echidna
		Echidna mated with Typhoneus who was in the Greek mythology the final son of a Greek goddess, Gaia.
		The short-beaked echidna as on the above picture is mostly found in the environment of Australia and New Guinea.
		The short-beaked echidnas will be mostly found in areas where there are ants and termites, which is their main food; the Zaglossus feeds themselves with insect larvae and worms.
	www.travel-australia.org /animals/echidna.html (192 words)

	Echidna (mythology) Information
		Echidna was described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate Typhoeus or Typhon every major monster in the Greek mythos,
		Karl Kerenyi noted an archaic vase-painting with a pair of echidnas performing sacred rites in a vineyard, while on the opposite side of the vessel, goats were attacking the vines (Kerenyi 1951, p 51f): chthonic Echidna as protector of the vineyard perhaps.
		Echidna, a monotreme mammal of Australia and New Guinea.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Echidna_(mythology) (499 words)

	Typhon Group: Healthcare Solutions
		In Greek Mythology, Typhon was the first multi-headed creature, with 100 heads and one body.
		Typhon is represented as a son of Typhoeus, and a fearful hurricane, and as having become by Echidna the father of the dog Orthus, Cerberus, the Lernaean hydra, Chimaera, and the Sphinx.
		Echidna and Typhon's children are the Nemean Lion, Cerberus, Ladon, the Chimera, the Sphinx, and the Hydra.
	www.typhongroup.com /myth (1026 words)

	Echidna - Monstropedia - the largest encyclopedia about monsters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Echidna was called the "Mother of All Monsters" and described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate Typhoeus or Typhon every major monster in the Greek mythos.
		Karl Kerenyi noted an archaic vase-painting with a pair of echidnas performing sacred rites in a vineyard, while on the opposite side of the vessel, goats were attacking the vines (Kerenyi 1951, p 51f).
		Echidna was a recurring character in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as she is played by Bridget Hoffman.
	www.monstropedia.org /index.php?title=Echidna (583 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Greek &. Roman Mythology (N-Z)
		In Greek mythology, Peirithous was a King of the Lapiths and a son of Ixion and Dia.
		In Greek mythology, Proteus was a son of Abas and the twin brother of Acrisius.
		In Greek and Roman mythology, the Styx was the principal river in the underworld.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/D1B.HTM (3810 words)

	Mythography \| The Greek Creature Echidna in Myth and Art
		The second reason that Echidna is significant in myth comes from the tradition that she was the mother to a motley assortment of monsters.
		Indeed, the ancient poet Hesiod suggests that Echidna was the offspring of Ceto and Phorcys.
		According to some versions of the myth, Echidna was eventually killed by Argus - but of course only after she had given birth to what amounts to a horde of malicious monsters and other creatures.
	www.loggia.com /myth/echidna.html (455 words)

	Echidna
		Echidna is the hideous mate of Typhon and the daughter of Ceto.
		Zeus spared her and her children's lives as challenges to futures heroes.
		Echidna's children are the Nemean Lion, Cerberus, Ladon, Chimera, Sphinx, and Hydra.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/e/echidna.html (65 words)

	AllRefer.com - Echidna, in Greek mythology (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
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	echidna, in zoology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A short-legged, grayish brown animal, the echidna is covered with sharp quills and can protect itself by rolling into a tight bristly ball.
		There are two genera and several species of echidna; all are native to the sandy and rocky areas of New Guinea, E Australia, and Tasmania.
		Echidnas are not closely related to true anteaters, which are higher mammals.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ec/echidna.html (217 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Greek mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Our surviving sources of mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition, supplemented by interpretations of iconic imagery, sometimes modern ones, sometimes ancient ones, as myth was a means for later Greeks themselves to throw light on cult practices and traditions that were no longer explicable.
		In the original sense, therefore, a mythology is an attempt to bring sense to the stylized narratives that the Greeks recited at festivals, whispered at shrines, and bandied about at aristocratic banquets.
		To the Greeks, mythology was a part of their history; few ever doubted that there was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Greek_mythology (3033 words)

	Poseidon's Greek Mythology Page - Monsters and Other Creatures
		Echidna was the half woman half serpent daughter of either Gaia and Tartarus or Ceto and Phorcys.
		The Hydra was an offspring of Echidna and Typhon.
		The Sphinx was one of the terrible offspring of Echidna and Typhon (sometimes Orthos).
	members.tripod.com /~Poseidon64/monsters.html (1833 words)

	Echidnas Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Echidna was a very old man who, living apart from his people, seldom left the shelter of his bark hut.
		Echidna actually lived on the flesh of the young men whom he would kill after coaxing them to his camp on some pretext.
		Nunkito, the wife of Echidna, was so distressed when she heard about the punishment of her husband, that she gashed her scalp with a digging stick until the blood flowed down and stained her body.
	www.echidnaenclave.net /Echidnas/Epage10.htm (1663 words)

	Echidna Chess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Instead the Echidna has the power to repulse any piece (friend or foe, including pawns) that is being approached, provided that any intervening squares are empty.
		The Echidna's value is 3, that is, the same as a bishop or knight (preliminary estimate).
		Among Echidna's progeny, by the 100-headed Typhon, were Ladon (the dragon who protected the Golden Apples of the Hesperides), the dragon who protected the Golden Fleece, the Hydra, the goatlike Chimera, and the infernal hounds Orthus and Cerberus.
	hem.passagen.se /melki9/echidna.htm (456 words)

	The Famous Chicks
		Echidna was the mother of all monsters (now that we're getting into bad guys), but really she was only the mother of about seven of them (namely: Ladon (a dragon), Hydra (the many-headed), Chimaera (the goat-like), Orthus (Orthros), and Cerberus (dog creatures), and by her son Orthus the mothered the Sphinx and the Nemean Lion).
		Echidna was the daughter of Chrysaor, the Gold Bearer, who was a son of Poseidon and Medusa.
		In Classical Mythology the Titaness Tethys was the wife of her brother Oceanus and by him the mother of the 3000 Oceanids and of all the river gods.
	www.paleothea.com /Basic.html (5551 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Echidna (mythology)
		Echidna was described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate Typhoeus or Typhon every major monster in the Greek myths,
		Karl Kerenyi noted an archaic vase-painting with a pair of echidnas performing sacred rites in a vineyard, while on the opposite side of the vessel, goats were attacking the vines (Kerenyi 1951, p 51f): chthonic Echidna as protector of the vineyard perhaps.
		Echidna appears as a boss monster in Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy I: Soul of Chaos.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Echidna_(mythology) (581 words)

	echidna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The first was due to her striking appearence, for Echidna was commonly portrayed as an odd and unsettling juxtaposition of beautiful women and deadly serpant.
		The second reason that Echidna is significant in myth comes from the tradition that she was the Mother to a motley assortmant of monsters.
		Indeed, the ancient poet Hesiod suggests that Echidna was the offspring of Ceto and Phoreys.
	eagle.chimacum.wednet.edu /comp2/2003-04/q4-g1/echidna.html (296 words)

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		The monsters of Greek mythology who don't appear prominently in FF enough to warrent their own pages (and yes, I know that my definition of "prominent" is a tad hard to fathom, so sue me :P) For more Greeciness, read up on gorgons, lamias, hydras, chimeras, classical giants, Scylla and Charybdis, bestiary monsters and Cerberus.
		She and her consort Typhon became the parents of a number of monsters; precisely which ones is disputed, but amongst the children attributed to her are the gorgons, the hydra, the chimera, Orthos and Cerberus.
		A creature from Greek mythology with the body of a lion, the head and chest of a woman and a bird's wings, the sphinx would wait by a road and ask passers-by a riddle.
	members.lycos.co.uk /aspara/greek.htm (538 words)

	Genealogy: Giants and Monsters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Most of the monsters were children of Typhon and Echidna, and that of Phorcys and Ceto.
		Please note that Echidna was sometimes seen as the offspring of Gaea and Tartarus, and therefore the sister of the monster of the Typhon.
		Some say that of Typhon and Echidna, while others say Phorcys and Ceto, or that her mother was Crataeïs, Hecate or Lamia.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/family20.html (332 words)

	Greek mythology 3.
		According to Greek mythology, there is on the remote west an isle of the Hesperides.
		The images of the marvelous apples widely spread in the Indo-European traditions: the apples of Manannan (Ireland mythology), apples of Idun (Scandinavian mythology), ones of Slav tales.
		Echidna was killed by giant Argus (in this picture we can see his eyes).
	fantalov.tripod.com /greek3.htm (190 words)

	Creatures
		In Mythology, the Chimera is a monster with the head of a lion, body of a she-goat and the tail of a dragon.
		In Mythology, Cerberus was the three-headed watchdog who guards the entrance to the Underworld, and is the child of the giant Typhon and Echidna.
		In Mythology, Echidna is a creature with the head of a nymph and body of a snake.
	www.angelfire.com /planet/paradiseunderthesea/creatures.html (705 words)

	Echidna: Name and Symbol
		The Latin meaning of "echidna" refers to vipers and adders which are poisonous snakes.
		Echidna's name seems to refer to dangerous creatures, obviously something Echidna is herself.
		Echidna is also hindered, or trapped, by her own hatred for Volt and her need to prove herself as being capable and strong.
	www.celes-chere.net /bouncer/echidna/name.html (127 words)

	Echidna
		Echidna is the final child of Phorcys and Ceto.
		A horrible creature, Echidna was forced to dwell in a cave beneath the earth, far from gods and men alike.
		There she joined with the final son of Gaia, Typhaon, before he arose from the earth and challenged Zeus.
	dante.udallas.edu /hutchison/Mythology/Monsters/echidna.htm (118 words)

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