Biography Typhon

Typhon or Typh (Tujvn, TujweuV) – mighty giant, the embodiment of the fiery forces of the earth and its vapors, with their destructive behavior (the name T. same root with the verb tujw, which means to smoke, evaporate, burn). In the Iliad, mentions the fight with T. Zeus and his stay in the underground depths, there Arimo or at the foot of Arima (Asia Minor) and later, when the Greeks were known volcanic features Kumsky coast in Italy, the Aeolian Islands and Sicily giant TV was moved to this area. According to Hesiod T. – latest generation of land, the conception of the Tartar. Monster has an incredible force of arms and legs and has at the back a hundred dragons' heads with black tongues and eyes of fire, out of his mouth is dealt a common voice of the gods, the roar of a terrible bull, the roar of a lion, the howling of a dog, then a sharp whistle, echoed in the mountains. TV could become the ruler of gods and mortals, but Zeus came to him in the struggle on which to base the earth quaked, land, sea and the sky lit up, and even the inhabitants of the Underworld trembled. Finally, precise strike of lightning stopped frenzy T., who was cast into Tartarus. And here he still can not quite calm: when he moves, earthquakes, and blow hot winds. From Ehidny T. was the father of the mythical monsters (Horta, Koerber, Lernaean Hydra, etc.) that are on the ground and underground threats to mankind, until Heracles did not destroy them. Later T. was otozhestvlen with the Egyptian Seth, the god of Sirocco, death, devastation, solar and lunar eclipses and other misfortunes.