Inhumi in the Whorl

Lee Berman · 18 Aug 2010, 13:14 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:14:12 -0400
Subject: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl
Message-ID: <SNT123-W547A69C256AD6D7F28514CCF9D0 at phx.gbl>

>Jeff Wilson- It just occurred to me that Blue might be Scylla's home planet.

Yes :- ). Isn't there a mention that Scylla had her own world to rule?  

I think Echidna is also a possibility, though mythological Scylla was a sea 
monster and Echidna was a cave dweller. I think Horn mentions that Echidna seems 
to be getting most of the worship since they arrived on Blue.

From Wikipedia- 

>In the most ancient layers of Greek mythology, Echidna (Greek: ??????, ekhis, ????, 
>meaning "she viper") was called *the "Mother of All Monsters"* because most of the 
>monsters in Greek myth were the offspring of Echidna and her husband Typhon. Echidna 
>was described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate 
>Typhoeus (or Typhon) almost every major horrible monster in the Greek myths.

>Echidna was a *drakaina*, with the face and torso of a beautiful woman and the body of a 
>serpent, sometimes having two serpent's tails. The site of her cave Homer calls "Arima, 
>couch of Typhoeus".

Interesting that we have a character in BotNS also called "The Mother". Also snake-like.
Also cave-dwelling. And "couch of Typhon"- I think we have seen that in BotNS also. 
How DOES The Cumaean fit into all this?

>In Greek mythology, a drakaina (Greek: ????????) is a female dragon, sometimes with 
>human-like features. 

What better wife for a mandragora than a drakaina?

In Greek mythology, Typhon, Echidna, Scylla, Lamia, witches, vampires, dragons, snakes are 
all related. In some manner, all these find their way into BotNS which seems like a guide to
appearances in Long/Short Sun.

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