The Athenians asserted that their first king, Kekrops, had no parents, but had sprung directly from the earth. He was said to have been a perfectly formed human being from the waist up, and a writhing serpent from the waist down. It is likely that in this odd manner the Athenians were making a claim to be the rightful owners of the land; contrasting themselves with other Greeks outside Attica who were immigrants from the north.
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