 Thus, they were called Alastores for supervising the ceaseless wanderings of people and Palamnaioi for pouring the water of Styx with their palms and hands in order to make the fields infertile.The Telchines were described to have stings and being rough as the echinoid and thus, their names "teliochinous" that is “having a poisonous "telos" like an echinoid”.The Telchines were said to have invented useful arts and institutions which were useful to mankind and to have made images of the gods.