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  "thread": {
    "id": 498,
    "subject": "Names, animals, and meanings (E)",
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    "first": "1998-07-28T17:31:39+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-28T17:31:39+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0682@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-28T17:31:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Names, animals, and meanings (E)",
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nEchidna.  Greek for viper or adder.  Name of a mythological monster. \nShe was described as a creature that is part beautiful woman, and part\nserpent.  The daughter of Chrysaor (Golden Sword) and Callirrhoe (Fair\nFlowing), or of Tartaros and Gaia (Earth), or of Ceto (Whale or\nSea-monster) and Phorcys.  Said to be the mother of many other\nmythological monsters.  The myths are contradictory about who these\nmonsters' fathers were.  Typhon or Typhoeus is usually said to be the\nfather of the Chimaera, the Hydra, and Cerberus (and Typhon if\nTyphoeus is given as the father).  Typhon/Typhoeus may have been the\nfather of her other children, too.  Other sources give Orthos (also\ncalled Orthros, who was the dog of the three-headed monster Geryon\n[who was himself said to be Echidna's brother by some sources]) as the\nfather of the Sphinx, the Nemean Lion, and the Crommyonian Sow\n(Phaea).  Orthos is sometimes said to be the child of Echidna and\nTyphon as well.  The serpend Ladon, the Python, the Colchian dragon,\nScylla, and the eagle that tormented Prometheus are also said to be\nher children not by Typhon in some myths while others give him as the\nfather.  Also, Echidna is the name of the genus of the spiny\nant-eater.  One of the Nine.  A major goddess.  Consort of Pas, mother\nof the Seven, goddess of fertility.  Associated with snakes, mice, and\nother crawling animals.  Conspired to murder her husband with others.\nThe confusion over the parentage of her offspring makes me believe\nthat Wolfe might have intended her to have been unfaithful to Pas, so\nsome of the \"gods\" may not be Pas' children at all.\n\nEft.  Old word for a lizard or newt, or the land-dwelling stage of a\nwater newt.  Mattak's subordinate.\n\nEland.  Tragelaphus oryx.  The largest species of antelope.  Can be 12\nfeet long.  Large twisting horns. Murderer in the tunnels who tames\nbufes.\n\nprion"
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