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TYPHON (TYPHAON, TYPHOEUS)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 508 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TYPHON (TYPHAON, TYPHOEUS)  , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, youngest son of Gaea and See also:Tartarus . He is described as a grisly See also:monster with a See also:hundred dragons' heads, who was conquered and See also:cast into Tartarus by See also:Zeus . In other accounts, he is See also:con-fined in the See also:land of the Arimi in See also:Cilicia (Iliad, ii . 783) or under See also:Etna (See also:Aeschylus, P.V . 370) or in other volcanic regions, where he is the cause of eruptions . See also:Typhon is thus the personification of volcanic forces . Amongst his See also:children by See also:Echidna are See also:Cerberus, the Lernaean See also:hydra, and the See also:Chimaera . He is also the See also:father of dangerous winds (typhoons), and by later writers is identified with the See also:Egyptian See also:Seth . See Eduard See also:Meyer, Set-Typhon (1875), and M . See also:Mayer, See also:Die Giganten and Titanen (1887) ; See also:Preller-See also:Robert, Griechische Mythologie (1894), pp . 63–66; O . Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie, ii .

845, 1333, according to whom Typhon, the " snake-footed " See also:

earth-spirit, is the See also:god of the destructive See also:wind, perhaps originally of the See also:sirocco, but See also:early taken by the Phoenicians to denote the See also:north wind, in which sense it was probably used by the Greeks of the 5th See also:century in nautical See also:language; and also in Philologus, ii. n.f . (1889), where he endeavours to prove the identity of Typhon with the Phoenician Zephon (See also:Baal-Zephon, translated in Gesenius's See also:Thesaurus by " See also:locus Typhonis " or " Typhoni See also:saar "), signifying " darkness," " the north wind," and perhaps " snake "; A. von See also:Mess, " Der Typhonmythus bei See also:Pindar and Aeschylus," in Rhein . See also:Mus. lvi . (19oi), 167 .

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