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Who was Typhoeus?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

There was more than one god with a name of that kind, Typhoeus the son of Gaea and Tartarus born in Kilikia was a monstrous immortal storm giant who defied Zeus and was buried in Tartarus under Mount Aetna, the workshop of Hephaestus. He had made the gods flee to Egypt where they turned themselves into animals (and so were identified with Egyptian gods and goddesses).

The second was the son of Typhoeus and called Typhon who fathered the Anemoi Thuellai kept by Aiolos in the hollow heart of a floating island called Aiolia and was struck by thunderbolts.

A third was born of Hera, without father, Typhaon who mated with Ekhidna the Drakaina of Delphoi and produced monstrous children loyal to Hera.

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