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Greek Mythology > People, Places, & Things > Ekhidna
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(echis = viper) The daughter of Kallirhoe (Callirhoe).
Ekhidna is “like nothing human,” half nymph with a fair face and the body of an enormous serpent; she lives apart from the other Immortals underground.
Ekhidna was joined in love with Typhaon and their hard-tempered children were: Orthos (the watchdog of Geryon), Kerberos (Cerberus) (the savage dog of Hades) and the Hydra of Lerna; all three of which Herakles (Heracles) faced as part of his Labors.
Also, near the city of Korinth (Corinth), the hero, Theseus, killed a fierce sow that was the offspring of Ekhidna and Typhaon; the sow was named after her keeper, Phaia, and it appears that Theseus killed the beast for sport rather than necessity.
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