Who was Echidna – The Mother of monster’s ?
According to one legend, the echidna was immortal and Zeus left it on earth after the victory over the Titans so that it and its descendants could challenge the later heroes, as Hesiod tells it, 700 BC. An ancient Greek poet who flourished at that time. Most myths and legends about the echidna focus not on her but on her famous and terrifying monster children.
The truth is that the hero Bellerophon was ordered by the king of Lycia to kill the Chimera but the hero, miraculously protected by the gods, succeeded in killing the Chimera, the monster-child of Echidna, whom Bellerophon killed with an arrow.
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Echidna discovers a cave named Arima
Hesiod tells that Echidna discovers a cave named Arima. This is the same place where, in Homer’s Iliad, Zeus, with his thunderbolt, strikes the land of Echidna’s mate Typhon, referring to it as the land of the arimoi “where men say it is a bed. “Typhius” is another name for Typhon. But Homer and Hesiod say nothing about where this arima might be. The question is whether a historical place was meant to be, and its potential place to be. Some suggest that Arima is located in a volcanic plain on the upper gediz River, also known as the catascumene, between the ancient kingdoms of Lydia, mysia and Phrygia, near Mount Tamolus and Sardis. Ancient capital of Lydia.,
Another place mentioned by Strabo as connected with Arima is the volcanic island of Pithecus, off the coast of ancient Cumae in Italy. Pherecydes of Athens states that Typhon fled from Pethecus during his fight with Zeus and, according to Pindar, that Typhon was buried under the island. Strabo’s “myth” states that when Typhon “twisted his body in fire and water, sometimes a small island of boiling water spouted.”
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