31 Days of Monsters: Echidna, Mother of Monsters

Echidna, daughter of Tartarus (The Darkness) and Gaia (The Earth) is called the Mother of Monsters by the Greeks. With her brother Typhon, she bore an almost endless line of mythology's greatest terrors: Cerberus the three-headed guardian of Hades; Orthrus, his two-headed brother; The Lernaean Hydra; Medusa and her sister Gorgons; Ladon, the dragon protector of the golden apples; The Colchian Dragon, guardian of the Golden Fleece; The Caucasian Eagle, tormentor of Prometheus; The Chimera, The Crommyonian Sow; The Nemean Lion; The Sphynx; Scylla and Charybdis and more. She is described as incredibly beautiful, with the upper half of a woman, and, below the waist, the body of an enormous serpent. She is eternal, and undying, and although her brother was imprisoned within Mt. Etna after the siblings attacked Zeus, Echidna and her children were allowed their freedom as a challenge to all future adventurers.

That wraps up this year's 31 Days of Monsters. I hope you enjoyed the selection this year. Please feel free to drop me a line at any time to tell me what you think. Happy Halloween.