Editing Echidna (mythology) (section)

==Delphyne==
Echidna was perhaps associated with the monster killed by [[Apollo]] at [[Delphi]]. Though that monster is usually said to be the male serpent [[Python (mythology)|Python]], in the oldest account of this story, the ''Homeric Hymn to Apollo'', the god kills a nameless she-serpent (''[[Drakaina (mythology)|drakaina]]''), subsequently called [[Delphyne]], who had been Typhon's foster-mother.<ref>''Hymn to Apollo'' (3) [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D3%3Acard%3D267 300&ndash;306], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D3%3Acard%3D349 349&ndash;369]; Ogden 2013a, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA40 pp. 40 ff.]; Gantz, p. 88; Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA14 pp. 14&ndash;15]; [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA94 p. 94]. [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.6.3 1.6.3], for example, calls her Delphyne.</ref> Echidna and Delphyne share several similarities.<ref>Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA94 pp. 94&ndash;97] argues that Echidna and Delphyne (along with Ceto and possibly Scylla) were different names for the same creature.</ref> Both were half-maid and half-snake,<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.6.3 1.6.3] calls Delphyne both a ''drakaina'' and a "half-bestial maiden"; see Ogden 2013a, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA44 p. 44]; Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA95 p. 95].</ref> and both were a "plague" (''πῆμα'') to men.<ref>''Hymn to Apollo'' (3) [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D3%3Acard%3D267 304]: ''πῆμα''; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:304-336 329]: ''πῆμ᾽''.</ref> And both were intimately connected to Typhon, and associated with the Corycian cave.<ref>According to [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.6.3 1.6.3], Typhon set Delphyne as guard over Zeus' severed sinews in the Corycian cave; see Ogden, 2013a, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA42 p. 42]; Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA94 p. 94].</ref>