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He is described as a vast grisly monster with a hundred serpents issuing from his thighs, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus. In other accounts, he is confined in the land of the Arimi in Cilicia ( Iliad, ii. 783) or under Mount Etna ( Aeschylus, P. V. 370) or in other volcanic regions, where he is the cause of eruptions. Typhon is thus the chthonic figuration of volcanic forces, as Hephaestus (Roman Vulcan) is the Olympian manifestation. Amongst his children by Echidna are Cerberus, the serpent-like Lernaean hydra, and the Chimaera.

Typhon is also the father of hot dangerous winds ( GreekThe Greek language ( /Elini'k{/) is an Indo-European language which has existed from around the 14th century BC in the Cretan inscriptions called Linear B. Mycenaean Greek of this period is distinguished from later Classical or Ancient Greek of the 8th ce "typhein" to smoke), which were extended by the ArabThere are three factors which may assist to varying degrees in determining whether someone is considered Arab or not: Political: whether they live in a country which is a member of the Arab League (or, more vaguely, the Arab World); this definition coverss to include the cyclonic storms of the Indian Ocean, hence English typhoon.

Later Hellenistic writers identified Typhon with the Egyptian Set.

References

• Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, I, 36.1-3.

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