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In Greek mythology, the Telkhines (Greek: Τελχῖνες ''Telkhines'') were the original inhabitants of the island of Rhodes, and were known in Crete and Cyprus. ==Mythology== Their parents were either Pontus and Gaia, or Tartarus and Nemesis, or else they were born from the blood of castrated Uranus along with the Erinyes.〔Tzetzes on Theogony 80〕 In another story there were nine Telkhines, children of Thalassa and Pontus; they had flippers instead of hands and the heads of dogs and were known as fish children.〔Eustathius on Homer, p. 771〕 They were regarded as excellent metallurgists: various accounts〔Diodorus Siculus, ''Library of History'' 5. 55. 5 ff〕〔Strabo, ''Geography'' 14. 2〕 state that they were skilled metal workers in brass and iron, and made a trident for Poseidon and a sickle for Cronus, both ceremonial weapons.〔Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 28 ff〕 By some accounts, their children were highly worshiped as gods in the ancient Rhodes towns of Ialysos (Ἰαλυσός), Kamiros (Κάμειρος) and Lindos (Λίνδος). The Telkhines were entrusted by Rhea with the upbringing of Poseidon, which they accomplished with the aid of Capheira (Καφείρα), one of Oceanus' daughters.〔 Another version says that Rhea accompanied them to Crete from Rhodes, where nine of the Telchines, known as the Curetes, were selected to bring up Zeus.〔Strabo, ''Geography'' 10. 3. 19〕 The Telkhines were associated and sometimes confused with the Cyclopes, Dactyls and Curetes.〔Strabo, ''Geography'' 10. 3. 7〕 They were believed to bring about hailstorms, snow, and rain at will, to assume any shape they pleased,〔Diodorus Siculus, ''Library of History'', 5. 55.〕 and produced a substance poisonous to living things. The gods (Zeus, Poseidon or Apollo) eventually killed them because they began to use magic for malignant purposes;〔Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 7. 365 ff〕 particularly, they produced a mixture of Stygian water and sulfur, which killed animals and plants〔Strabo, ''Geography'' 14. 2. 7〕 (according to Nonnus, they did so as a revenge for being driven out of Rhodes by the Heliadae).〔Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14. 36 ff〕 Accounts vary on how exactly they were destroyed: by flood,〔 or Zeus's thunderbolt,〔Pindar, Paean 5〕 or Poseidon's trident,〔Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 18. 35〕 or else Apollo assumed the shape of a wolf to kill them.〔Servius' on Aeneid IV. 377〕 They apparently lost one of the titanomachias, the battles between the gods and the Titans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Telchines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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