 The youngest son Scythes fulfilled the requirements and became the founder and eponym of the Scythians.A possibly related creature to the Hesiodic Echidna is the "Viper" ("Echidna") cast into an abyss, by Philip the Apostle, in the apocryphal "Acts of Philip".Called a "she dragon" ("drakaina") and "the mother of the serpents", this Echidna ruled over many other monstrous dragons and snakes, and lived in a gated temple at Hierapolis, where she was worshipped by the people of that land.