 She, along with her temple and priests, was swallowed up by a hole in the ground that opened beneath her, as the result of Philip's curse.Echidna was perhaps associated with the monster killed by Apollo at Delphi.Though that monster is usually said to be the male serpent Python, in the oldest account of this story, the "Homeric Hymn to Apollo", the god kills a nameless she-serpent ("drakaina"), subsequently called Delphyne, who had been Typhon's foster-mother.