Echidna

Echidna ﻿ Information

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//"From above the waist, this creature appears to be a lovely human woman, but below is a foul, serpentine dragon with glistening blue-black scales and a tail ending in a wicked stinger. A reeking multitude of frogs, toads, newts, and snakes—all blind and deformed—creep and slither upon her bloated abundance and crawl in and out of her gaping mouth…" // ======

﻿ A female monster consisting of half nymph, half speckled snake. It lived in a cave coming out to snatch up and eat those passing. The creature was ageless but, not immortal. It was killed by Argus Panoptes while sleeping. It mated frequently with Typhoeus producing a variety of offspring. She is known as the mother of all monsters because most monsters in Greek mythology were her children. Sadly she is out shined by all of her monsters children, whom roam the earth terrorizing who they can. A species of Platypus was named after her.

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Unfortunately, there are no classical images of her. If anyone can find one, please tell Caroline. But the question is, why are there no classical images of her, was it perhaps a fear of her immage?

Relation to Percy Jackson
We don't hear much about Echidna in this story, except that she is Chimera's mother. She disguises herself as a human and rides the elevator with Percy, Grover, and Annabeth to the observation deck of the Gateway Arch. There, she unleashes her pet Chihuahua on Percy. The Chihuahua morphs into Chimera. She says to him that he should be honored to kill her, thinking that she is special

Links used
[] [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna_(mythology])

For Further Reading
Try looking through the pages of God's Hero's and men, her children are on nearly every page