Description acceptable. An anguiform mythical king who was born in this manner had the epithet “Geminus” and substituted cakes called pelanoi for blood sacrifices. Plato claimed rulers of Atlantis were descended from Evenor, who was born in this manner. Thucydides linked cicada pins to Athenian belief in their origin from figures born in this manner, tying Athenians to Attica from time immemorial. Six-armed monsters named for their birth in this manner shared an island with the Doliones in the Argonautica. The daughters of (*) Cecrops fostered a half-serpentine king born in this manner after Athena brushed semen from her thigh. After dragon teeth were scattered, armed and fully grown Spartoi appeared in this manner. For 10 points, Erichthoneus’ birth in what manner established that the Athenians had not immigrated to their home, because he originated from Gaia? ■END■
ANSWER: autochthonous [accept earth-born or descriptions indicating born from the earth; accept synonyms like dirt or soil or Gaia until read for “earth”; accept sprung up from the earth; accept gegenes; reject “chthonic”; prompt on being born without parents or without sex with “from where did they originate?”]
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