Echinads (mythology)

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Echinades ( Greek  Ἐχινάδες Echinades ) is the name of four nymphs in Greek mythology .

According to tradition, the Echinades were daughters of the fortune teller Echinos. In the case of a sacrifice in which they slaughtered ten bulls and offered them to the gods of the field, they are said to have forgotten to invite the river god Acheloos , whereupon he swelled tremendously and washed them into the sea, where they became the island group of the same name in front of the Acheloos estuary .

literature

  • Ovid : Metamorphoses , book 8, verse 570 ff. ( [1] )
  • Dr. Vollmer's Dictionary of the Mythology of All Nations , Third Edition, Stuttgart 1874, Reprint Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-921695-13-9