Description acceptable. An anguiform mythical king identified as one of these figures due to his manner of birth had the epithet “Geminus” and substituted cakes called pelanoi for blood sacrifices. Plato claimed rulers of Atlantis were descended from Evenor, described as one of these figures. Six-armed giants named for their status as these figures shared an island with the Doliones in the Argonautica. Thucydides linked cicada pins to a people’s belief in their origin from these types of figures, tying (*) Athenians to Attica from time immemorial. The Spartoi are described as this type of figure due to their appearance after dragon’s teeth were sown. The daughters of Cecrops fostered a half-serpentine king identified as one of these figures due to his birth in a particular manner after Athena brushed semen from her thigh. For 10 points, Erichthoneus was what kind of figure based on his origin 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”]
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