![]() ORTHOS, KERBEROS, HYDRA, KHIMAIRA (by Ekhidna) (Hesiod Theogony 306) HERA (Homeric Hymns 3.300, Stesichorus Frag 239) OFFSPRING TARTAROS & TARTARA (Hyginus Faulaeb 152) GAIA (Aeschylus Prometheus 353, Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 516, Antoninus Liberalis 28, Ovid Metamorphoses 5.324, Virgil Georgics 1.276, Nonnus Dionysiaca 1.145) TARTAROS & GAIA (Hesiod Theogony 820, Apollodorus 1.39, Hyginus Pref) As a volcano-demon Typhoeus hurled red-hot rocks at heaven and fire boiled forth from his mouth. He had a hundred serpent-heads for fingers, a filthy, matted beard, pointed ears, and eyes flashing fire.Īccording to some he had two hundred hands consisting of fifty serpent-headed fingers on each hands and a hundred heads proper-one was human, the other ninety-nine bestial (of bulls, boars, serpents, lions and leopards). ![]() He was man-shaped from the waist up with two coiled serpents in place of legs. Typhoeus was a winged giant, said to be so huge that his head brushed the stars. In this guise he was identified with the giant Enkelados (Enceladus). ![]() Later poets describe him as a volcano-giant, trapped beneath the weight of Mount Aitna (Etna) in Sicily. He was the source of devastating storms which issued forth from that dark nether-realm. TYPHOEUS (Typhon) was a monstrous storm-giant who laid siege to heaven but was defeated by Zeus and imprisoned in the pit of Tartaros. Hurricane ( typhô) The serpent-footed giant Typhoeus, Chalcidian black-figure hydria C6th B.C., Staatliche Antikensammlungen
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