En la mitología griega, los telquines (en griego: Τελχίνες, ‘difamador’) eran nueve hermanos, mitad marinos, mitad terrestres, con cabeza de perro, la parte inferior del cuerpo en forma de cola de pez o de serpiente y los dedos de las manos palmeados. Eran conocidos como niños-peces hijos de Ponto y de Talasa, y fueron, junto con sus hermanos, los primeros habitantes de la isla de Rodas, que entonces se llamaba Τελχινίς (Telquinis) en su honor. Los relatos sobre los telquin…

The Telchines were regarded as the cultivators of the soil and ministers of the gods and as such they came from Crete to Cyprus and from thence to Rhodes or they proceeded from Rhodes to Crete and Boeotia. Rhodes, and in it the three towns of Cameirus, Ialysos, and Lindos (whence the Telchines are called Ialysii ), which was their principal seat and was named after them Telchinis (Sicyon also was called Telchinia ) and by some accounts, their children were highly worshiped a…