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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

CXLI: So Many Snakes, the Prolific Monster Dynasty of Typhoeus & Echidna

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

So. Many. Snakes. To continue Spooky Season, a look at the Father of Monsters, Typhoeus (or Typhon), and the near equally monstrous Echidna.

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Theoi.com; Early Greek Myth by Timothy Gantz.

Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.



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0:00.0

I'm from a small town in Lancashire and growing up I just always wanted to move away.

0:14.6

But then me geography teacher, it's all because of rambling.

0:17.3

So I'm there walking through nature and it begins explaining our home to us.

0:21.0

Why it's so special.

0:22.0

He showed me the trails my grandfather took and also his grandfather before him.

0:25.9

Not teach taught geography but really it was teaching me who I was.

0:30.8

Thinking about teaching, to get advice on your application funding in courses,

0:36.4

search get into teaching events.

1:06.4

And in a hollow cave, Keto bore another monster irresistible in no wise like either

1:16.8

to mortal men or to the undying gods, the goddess fierce a kidna who was half an

1:23.2

impth with glancing eyes and fair cheeks and half again a huge snake.

1:29.1

Great and awful with speckled skin eating raw flesh beneath the secret parts of the

1:36.3

holy earth.

1:38.6

And there she has a cave deep down under a hollow rock far from the deathless gods and

1:45.7

mortal men there.

1:48.0

Then did the gods appoint her a glorious house to dwell in and she keeps guard in Arama

1:54.6

beneath the earth grim a kidna, a nymph who dies not nor grows old all her days.

2:03.5

And say that typhon the terrible outrageous and lawless was joined in love to her, the

2:10.7

maid with glancing eyes.

2:12.8

So she conceived and brought forth fierce offspring.

2:17.7

First she bare oath roast the hound of garyonis and then again she bare a second, a monster

2:25.0

not to be overcome and it may not be described.

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