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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Erichthonius_of_Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		King Erichthonius (also called Erechtheus I or Erichthonios) was, according to some legends, autochthonous (born of the soil), and in other accounts he was the son of Hephaestus and Gaia or Athena or Atthis.
		Erichthonius later became King of Athens and implemented many beneficial changes to Athenian culture.
		Erichthonius was killed by either Poseidon or Zeus as revenge for killing Himmarados of Thrace during a war between Eleusis and Athens.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Erichthonius_of_Athens (275 words)

	Erichthonius
		According to the tradition the parents of Erichthonius were Hephaestus, the god of fire and smithies and Gaia, the goddess of the earth.
		Erichthonius as a young boy is sitting in his chest on the rocks of Acropolis, while two snakes are guarding him and his basket is nearby.
		Erichthonius was a kind of a mythical chthonic father of Athens.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/e/erichthonius.html (605 words)

	Dictionary: Ergeus to Eurytele, Greek Mythology Link.
		The lower part of Erichthonius 2's body was snake formed, as it was the case with King Cecrops 1 of Athens.
		Some say that Erichthonius 2 was not a son of the soil bu that his father was Hephaestus, and some call his mother Atthis (daughter of King Cranaus of Athens), others Gaia, and still others Athena.
		Erichthonius 2 married the Naiad Praxithea 2 and their son was Pandion 2, who became King of Athens after the death of his father [see also Athens] [Apd.3.14.6-7; Eur.Ion.21; Hyg.Ast.2.13; Hyg.Fab.48, 166; Pau.1.2.6].
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/001ShortEntries/SEErgeus.html (4773 words)

	ERECHTHEUS - LoveToKnow Article on ERECHTHEUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the later story, Erichthonius (son of Hephaestus and Atthis or Athena herself) was handed over by Athena to the three daughters of CecropsAglauros (or Agraulos), Herse and Pandrososin a chest, which they were forbidden to open.
		Aglauros and Herse disobeyed the injunction, and when they saw the child (which had the form of a snake, or round which a snake was coiled) they went mad with fright, and threw themselves from the rock of the Acropolis (or were killed by the snake).
		The birth of Erichthonius (as a corn-spirit) is interpreted by Mannhardt as a mythical way of describing the growth of the corn, and by J. Harrison (Myths and Monuments of Ancient Athens, xxvii.xxxvi.) as a fiction to explain the ceremony performed by the two ~maidens called Arrephori.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/ER/ERECHTHEUS.htm (433 words)

	AUTOCHTHONOUS, Greek Mythology Link.
		Some say that Erichthonius 2 was not a son of the soil bu that his father was Hephaestus, and some call his mother Atthis, others Gaia, and still others Athena.
		These add that Athena brought him up unknown to the other gods, and that when Erichthonius 2 died he was buried in the same precinct of Athena where he had been brought up by the goddess [see more details at Envy].
		Erichthonius 2 married the Naiad Praxithea 2 and their son was Pandion 2, who became King of Athens after the death of his father [Apd.3.14.6-7; Eur.Ion.21; Hyg.Ast.2.13; Hyg.Fab.48, 166; Pau.1.2.6].
	www.forumancientcoins.com /cparada/GML/AUTOCHTHONOUS.html (1426 words)

	Erichthonius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Erichthonius was the monster child of the Greek god Hephæstus and the Greek goddess Gæa.
		She placed Erichthonius in a chest and gave it to the three daughters of the king of Athens.
		Some say that Erichthonius had the ability to restore life because Athena gave him drops of blood from the gorgon, Medusa.
	webhome.idirect.com /~donlong/monsters/Html/Erichtho.htm (131 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: From Ovid's Cecrops to Rubens's City of God in The Finding of Erichthonius
		At its narrative core is a monstrous infant, Erichthonius, a half-human, half-serpentine creature engendered when the seed of Hephaestus spills on the earth (Gaea) after a failed advance to Athena, his great competitor for primacy among the Athenians.
		While the ostensible subject of this painting is the disclosure of an infant whose hybrid form should elicit fear and abhorrence, the palpable sense of bemusement among its protagonists imbues the scene with the atmosphere of a pastoral poem.
		The one reader to speculate on their deeper meanings was Julius Held, who proposed that the cupid and the nursemaid may allude to the second episode of Ovid's story, where Hermes' choice of Herse as his mate ultimately leads to the punishment of her sister Aglauros, the true agent of this forbidden discovery.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_1_86/ai_n6132151 (1398 words)

	Athena - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His semen fell on the ground, and Erichthonius was born from the earth.
		Alternatively, the semen landed on Athena's leg, and she wiped it off with a piece of wool which she tossed on the ground.
		Erichthonius arose from the ground and the wool.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Athene (1443 words)

	Shrubbery...: Auriga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Because of his connections with the goddess of the earth, the god of the smithy, and the goddess of wisdom, he was able to teach the people many things that improved their lives.
		Erichthonius was said to have been the creator of the horse-drawn chariot.
		Erichthonius was also said to have instituted the Panathenaea (Athens' major festival) in honour of his foster mother.
	deeol.blogspot.com /2003/11/auriga.html (370 words)

	erichtheus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		King Erichthonius (or Erechtheus) I of Athens was, according to some legends, autochthonous (born of the soil), and in other accounts he was the son of Hephaestus and Gaia or Athena or Atthis.
		He was sometimes said to be a snake with a human head.
		Erichthonius may have been the same person as Cecrops; scholars are divided.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Erichtheus.html (328 words)

	Rubens - AMAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The story of the discovery of the snake-legged infant Erichthonius >, son of Vulcan and Gaea, by the daughters of the Attic King Cecrops is retold by numerous classical authors from Euripides to Ovid.
		The story of Erichthonius was treated by Rubens on two separate occasions, each time with a series of related works that document the artist's development of the image.
		Vestiges of Herse's proper left hip and arm are seen along the left edge of the canvas; all that remains of Pandrosos is her proper right hand, resting on the edge of the basket, and her right leg, extending across the lower edge of the composition.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/rubens.html (2474 words)

	The Charioteer: The Tale of Auriga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Even at an early age, Erichthonius was clever and creative, and he had a cheery disposition despite his disability.
		It was a bloodless revolution and Erichthonius became the fourth king of Athens.
		Erichthonius built a temple for Athena and dedicated it to his daughter, Cithonia, in honor of her courage.
	www.business-esolutions.com /starmyths/myths/auriga.htm (2728 words)

	Thes_Txts.im.html
		Some say that this Erichthonius was a son of Hephaestus and Atthis, daughter of Cranaus, and some that he was a son of Hephaestus and Athena, as follows: Athena came to Hephaestus, desirous of fashioning arms.
		When he got near her with much ado (for he was lame), he attempted to embrace her; but she, being a chaste virgin, would not submit to him, and he dropped his seed on the leg of the goddess.
		In disgust, she wiped off the seed with wool and threw it on the ground; and as she fled and the seed fell on the ground, Erichthonius was produced.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/classics/Thes_Txts.im.html (335 words)

	Athena
		The boy was named Erichthonius, and because she did not want Poseidon to view his practical joke as a success, Athene hid him away in a sacred basket.
		Like Erichthonius he was part man and part serpent, and because of this it was suspected that Cecrops was the true father of the child.
		Erichthonius hid in the aegis of Athena where she raised him as if he were her own child.
	www.geocities.com /medea19777/athena.html (1161 words)

	Erichthonius, Greece, Greek mythology
		Because the girls were desperately curious they wen to have a little peak, and were horrified to see a child intertwined with a snake.
		Athena then took Erichthonius to her temple, and had him brought up there.
		Erichthonius was often believed to be one and the same with Erechteus, or at least his father or grandfather.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/erichthonius.htm (170 words)

	Euripides, Ion (U. of Saskatchewan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He is credited with instituting the Panathenaic festival (a mid-summer new year's festival celebrating Athena's birth) and with dedicating the ancient wooden statue of Athena Polias, originally kept in the old temple of Athena on the Acropolis but later transferred to the Erechtheum.
		Erichthonius went on to marry the nymph Praxithea, by whom he had a son, Pandion.
		Erechtheus: son of Pandion (although in Ion he is presented as the son of Erichthonius) and father of Creusa; to some degree a mere duplicate of Erichthonius.
	duke.usask.ca /~porterj/CourseNotes/IonBckgnd.html (1333 words)

	Wise Owl Newsletter -- Winter 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The story of Erichthonius is however more likely to be a first hand Sumerian immigrant account and possibly the most accurate.
		Erichthonius was from Nin.Khursag and En.ki, the 1/2 brother of Quayin.
		If this is the case, and it may well be that the hunters had their markets towns, that these hunters and gatherers were the survivors of previous innumerable deluges.
	www.druansha.com /owl/issue3/3Owl8.htm (601 words)

	Athena, Greek Mythology Link.
		Some have said that Hephaestus, who is akin to Athena because he also protects the crafts, attempted to rape this virgin goddess, and that when she was escaping him he dropped his seed on Athena's leg whereupon she, in disgust, wiped off the seed with wool and threw it on the ground.
		And from the seed which fell on the ground as the goddess fled, Erichthonius 2, whose body's lower part was snake formed, was produced.
		In any case, Athena is said to have brought Erichthonius 2 up unknown to the other gods, hiding the child in a chest, which she gave to the daughters of King Cecrops 1 of Athens to guard.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Athena.html (1712 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 48 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There can be little doubt but that the names Erichthonius and Erechtheus are identical; but whether the two heroes mentioned by Plato, Hyginus, and Apollodorus, the one of whom is usually called Erichthonius or Erechtheus I. and the other Erechtheus II., are likewise one and the same person, as Muller (Orchom.
		110, a.) The story of Erichthonius is related thus: When Hephaestus wished to embrace Athena, and the goddess repulsed him, he became by Ge or by Atthis, the daughter of Cranaus, the father of a son, who had either completely or only half the form df a serpent.
		The serpent escaped into the shield of Athena, and was protected by her.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1156.html (1013 words)

	Perseus Lookup Tool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Athené is said to have given Erichthonius in a chest to Agraulos and her sister Hersé, with strict injunctions not to open it; but they disobeyed the command.
		The two deities Erechtheus and Erichthonius, honoured in Attica as powers of the fruitful soil, are her fosterchildren.
		Side A: Athena receives the baby Erichthonius from the hands of the earthmother Ge and proceeds to wrap him in her mantle.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vor?target=en,1&collection=Any&lookup=Erichthonios&formentry=1&template=&searchText=&alts=1&extern=1&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0002;2394;65535&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062;1576;13130675&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0039;923;817026&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0040;1139;1928164&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004;4048;5806160&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0048;918;124462&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0041;924;4501079&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0042;919;331721&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043;965;4817651&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0054;2031;2570557&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006;5253;9153903&group=work&.cgifields=alts&.cgifields=group&.cgifields=extern&.cgifields=type (191 words)

	Genealogy: Houses of Athens
		Amphictyon, Cranaüs' son-in-law, had deposed him, and ruled until he was deposed by Erichthonius, Cranaüs' grandson.
		Erichthonius was the son of Hephaestus of either Atthis or Gaea.
		Though, I have listed Erichthonius as the son of Hephaestus and Atthis, there is a popular myth that says that he was earth-born king.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/family12.html (281 words)

	Rare Depiction of Athena & Erichthonius Shell Cameo Brooch Pendant 800 Silver - RL-00290
		However, the artisan has actually depicted the "softer side" of Athena as surrogate mother to Erichthonius, whom she raised.
		Erichthonius grew up to be the first king of Athens to worship Athena.
		The nimble virgin warrior was able to avoid violation, but the seed of the smith god spilled to the ground, unwittingly fertilizing Gaia, the earth goddess.
	www.rubylane.com /shops/cameocouture/item/RL-00290 (859 words)

	Star Tales – Auriga
		The most popular interpretation is that he is Erichthonius, a legendary king of Athens.
		He became the first person to harness four horses to a chariot, in imitation of the four-horse chariot of the Sun, a bold move which earned him the admiration of Zeus and assured him a place among the stars.
		There, Erichthonius is depicted at the reins, perhaps participating in the Panathenaic games in which he frequently drove his chariot to victory.
	www.ianridpath.com /startales/auriga.htm (765 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To one unfamiliar with the Magister's abilities, such a look would inspire only hilarity, coming as it did from a thin little man barely five feet tall, with a grizzled beard and ink smudges on is face and robe.
		Erichthonius knew what the Magister was capable of, and felt his stomach twist itself in knots.
		We need to be prepared in case angry hell-slugs come knocking." Erichthonius nodded and rushed out of the room, happy not have been turned into something slimy himself.
	atlantis.dragoncat.net /realms/times/times.204 (648 words)

	Erichthonius -
		Erichthonius was the son of the god Hephestus and possibly Atthis, but fostered by the goddess Athena, and raised in a chest[!] by the daughter(s) of Cecrops.
		He became king of Athens and is credited with introducing chariot driving and silver to mankind.
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	famous.adoption.com /famous/erichthonius.html (152 words)

	.: Erichthonius :. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Erichthonius was the monster child of the Greek god HephÊstus and the Greek goddess Gaea.
		He was abandoned by Gaea and was taken up by another goddess, Athena.
		The temple Erichthius on the Athenian Acropolis is named for this King.
	elswet.50megs.com /beasts/Erichtho.htm (131 words)

	Euripides' Ion is a play much concerned with origins and identities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stories central to the Ion, those of the early autochthons, were far from fixed, as Plato's Critias reveals when Cecrops, Erechtheus, and Erichthonius are given as evidence of ancients whose names have been preserved without "any memorial of their deeds"(110a).
		Earlier sources mention "Erechtheus", but "Erichthonius" does not appear until 440/430, when differentiation also begins to appear in sources that have Erichthonius as the father or grandfather of Erechtheus.
		The ambiguity of line 267 suggests the possibility of dual lineages since the Greek can mean that Erichthonius is either the father or grandfather of Erechtheus.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/COLE.html (739 words)

	Wise Owl Newsletter -- Winter 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It seems I was wrong in a previous posting on the "Sacred Acropolis" some time back, that indeed, the wool and the earth components in the creation of Erichthonius were eris and chthonos (Lee Hall, Athena a Biography).
		It is easy now to see the connection of En.ki with Erichthonius, who was half serpent (and represented with a Python).
		With the supposed abandonment of man by En.lil (Aries or Dionysus?) who was previously given mastery over the world by Anu (Zeus) it seems that En.ki and Nin.Khursag were on the ball in saving Deucalion (Utnapishtim) (Noah) and most defiantly savers of the human race according to the ancient scriptures.
	www.druansha.com /owl/issue3/3Owl7.htm (901 words)

	ERECHTHEUS - Online Information article about ERECHTHEUS
		Athens, originally identified with Erichthonius, but in later times distinguished from him.
		Homer, who knows nothing of Erichthonius, he was the son of Aroura (See also:
		Atthis or Athena herself) was handed over by Athena to the three daughters of Cecrops—Aglauros (or Agraulos), Herse and Pandrosos—in a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /EMS_EUD/ERECHTHEUS.html (599 words)

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