A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In Graeco-Roman tradition, Echidna is a hybrid creature; a gigantic half-woman and half a snake. As a tall, full of charm, and beautiful woman from the waist up, below, she was a hideous serpent.
Echidna. Parco dei Mostri – Bomarzo, Italy. Image credit: Daderot – Public Domain
In other words – Echidna – described by Hesiod as an ‘impossible monster’ – is a remarkable creature and a mother of a pantheon of spirits with fierce temperament, who among many other monstrous spirits represented dark forces. These forces were created in the earliest times of the violent wars conducted by the gods. Some of these creatures survived the conflicts and continued to haunt and seriously endanger humans.
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