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 And from **Typhoeus** comes the force of winds blowing wetly, except Notos (the South Wind) and Boreas (the North Wind) and clear Zephyros (the West Wind). These are a god-sent kind, and a great blessing to men; but the others blow fitfully upon the seas. Some rush upon the misty sea and work great havoc among men with their evil, raging blasts; for varying with the season they blow, scattering ships and destroying sailors. And men who meet these upon the sea have no help against the mischief. Others again over the boundless, flowering earth spoil the fair fields of men who dwell below, filling them with dust and cruel uproar. And from **Typhoeus** comes the force of winds blowing wetly, except Notos (the South Wind) and Boreas (the North Wind) and clear Zephyros (the West Wind). These are a god-sent kind, and a great blessing to men; but the others blow fitfully upon the seas. Some rush upon the misty sea and work great havoc among men with their evil, raging blasts; for varying with the season they blow, scattering ships and destroying sailors. And men who meet these upon the sea have no help against the mischief. Others again over the boundless, flowering earth spoil the fair fields of men who dwell below, filling them with dust and cruel uproar.
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-[[http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/Typhoeus.html|Source]]</blockquote> 
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-===== Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses - Typhon and the Flight of the Gods to Egypt ===== 
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-<blockquote>**Typhon** was the son of Ge (Earth), a deity monstrous because of his strength, and of outlandish appearance. There grew out of him numerous heads and hands and wings, while from his thighs came huge coils of snakes. He emitted all kinds of roars and nothing could resist his might.\\ 
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-He felt an urge to usurp the rule of Zeus and not one of the gods could withstand him as he attacked. In panic they fled to Aigyptos (Egypt), all except Athena and Zeus, who alone were left. **Typhon** hunted after them, on their track. When they fled they had changed themselves in anticipation into animal forms.\\ 
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-Apollon became a hawk [the Egyptian god Horus], Hermes an ibis [the Egyptian god Thoth], Ares became a fish, the lepidotus [Egyptian Lepidotus or Onuris], Artemis a cat [Neith or Bastet], Dionysos took the shape of a goat [Osiris or Arsaphes], Herakles a fawn, Hephaistos an ox [Ptah], and Leto a shrew mouse [Wadjet]. The rest of the gods each took on what transformations they could. When Zeus struck **Typhon** with a thunderbolt, **Typhon**, aflame hid himself and quenched the blaze in the sea.\\ 
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-Zeus did not desist but piled the highest mountain, Aitna (Etna), on Typon and set Hephaistos on the peak as a guard. Having set up his anvils, he works his red hot blooms on **Typhon**'s neck. 
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-[[http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/Typhoeus.html|Source]]</blockquote>+Source: Source: Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica. Translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. </blockquote> 
  
 ===== Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.15 - Tartarean Prison of Typhon ===== ===== Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.15 - Tartarean Prison of Typhon =====
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 <blockquote>That enemy of the gods, who lies in fearsome Tartaros, **Typhon** the hundred-headed, who long since was bred in the far-famed Kilikion cave. Today the cliffs that bar the sea o'er Kumai and Sikilia's (Sicily's) isle, press heavy on his shaggy breast, and that tall pillar rising to the height of heaven, contains him close--Aitna (Etna). <blockquote>That enemy of the gods, who lies in fearsome Tartaros, **Typhon** the hundred-headed, who long since was bred in the far-famed Kilikion cave. Today the cliffs that bar the sea o'er Kumai and Sikilia's (Sicily's) isle, press heavy on his shaggy breast, and that tall pillar rising to the height of heaven, contains him close--Aitna (Etna).
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-[[http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/Typhoeus.html|Source]]</blockquote>+\\ 
 +Source: The Extant Odes of Pindar. Translated into English with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers, M.A. 1904. First Edition printed 1874. </blockquote>
  
 ===== Homer, Iliad 2.780 - Beneath the Land of the Arimoi ===== ===== Homer, Iliad 2.780 - Beneath the Land of the Arimoi =====
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 <blockquote>The ground echoed under them, Zeus who delights in thunder were angry, as when he batters the earth about **Typhoeus**, in the land of the Arimoi, where they say **Typhoeus** lies prostrate. <blockquote>The ground echoed under them, Zeus who delights in thunder were angry, as when he batters the earth about **Typhoeus**, in the land of the Arimoi, where they say **Typhoeus** lies prostrate.
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-[[http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/Typhoeus.html|Source]]</blockquote>+\\ 
 +Source: Homer. The Iliad. Translated by Murray, A T. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1924. </blockquote>
  
 ===== Herodotus, Histories 3.5 - Beneath the Serbonian Marsh ===== ===== Herodotus, Histories 3.5 - Beneath the Serbonian Marsh =====
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 <blockquote>Now the only apparent way of entry into Aigyptos (Egypt) is this. The road runs from Phoinikia as far as the borders of the city of Kadytis . . . from Ienysus as far as the Serbonian marsh, beside which the promontory Kasios stretches seawards; from this Serbonian marsh, where **Typho** is supposed to have been hidden, the country is Aigyptos (Egypt). Now between Ienysus and the Kasian mountain and the Serbonian marsh there lies a wide territory for as much as three days' journey, terribly arid. <blockquote>Now the only apparent way of entry into Aigyptos (Egypt) is this. The road runs from Phoinikia as far as the borders of the city of Kadytis . . . from Ienysus as far as the Serbonian marsh, beside which the promontory Kasios stretches seawards; from this Serbonian marsh, where **Typho** is supposed to have been hidden, the country is Aigyptos (Egypt). Now between Ienysus and the Kasian mountain and the Serbonian marsh there lies a wide territory for as much as three days' journey, terribly arid.
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-[[http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/Typhoeus.html|Source]]</blockquote>+\\ 
 +Source: The History Of Herodotus Volume 1 (of 2); Author: Herodotus; Translator: G. C. Macaulay </blockquote>
  
 ===== Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.15 - Typhon Imprisoned Beneath Mount Etna ===== ===== Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.15 - Typhon Imprisoned Beneath Mount Etna =====
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 <blockquote>That enemy of the gods, who lies in fearsome Tartaros, **Typhon** the hundred-headed, who long since was bred in the far-famed Kilikian (Cilician) cave. Today the cliffs that bar the sea o'er Kymai (Cumae) and Sikilia's (Sicily's) isle, press heavy on his shaggy breast, and that tall pillar rising to the height of heaven, contains him close--Aitna (Etna) the white-clad summit, nursing through all the year her frozen snows. From the dark depths below she flings aloft fountains of purest fires, that no foot can approach. In the broad light of day rivers of glowing smoke pour forth a lurid stream, and in the dark a red and rolling flood tumbles down the boulders to the deep sea's plain in riotous clatter. These dread flames that creeping monster sends aloft, a marvel to look on, and a wondrous tale even to hear, from those whose eyes have seen it. Such is the being bound between the peaks of Aitna in her blackened leaves and the flat plain, while all his back is torn and scarred by the rough couch on which he lies outstretched. <blockquote>That enemy of the gods, who lies in fearsome Tartaros, **Typhon** the hundred-headed, who long since was bred in the far-famed Kilikian (Cilician) cave. Today the cliffs that bar the sea o'er Kymai (Cumae) and Sikilia's (Sicily's) isle, press heavy on his shaggy breast, and that tall pillar rising to the height of heaven, contains him close--Aitna (Etna) the white-clad summit, nursing through all the year her frozen snows. From the dark depths below she flings aloft fountains of purest fires, that no foot can approach. In the broad light of day rivers of glowing smoke pour forth a lurid stream, and in the dark a red and rolling flood tumbles down the boulders to the deep sea's plain in riotous clatter. These dread flames that creeping monster sends aloft, a marvel to look on, and a wondrous tale even to hear, from those whose eyes have seen it. Such is the being bound between the peaks of Aitna in her blackened leaves and the flat plain, while all his back is torn and scarred by the rough couch on which he lies outstretched.
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-[[http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/Typhoeus.html|Source]]</blockquote>+\\ 
 +Source: Source: The Extant Odes of Pindar. Translated into English with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers, M.A. 1904. First Edition printed 1874. </blockquote>
  
 ===== Herodotus, Histories 2.156 - Equated with Egyptian God Set ===== ===== Herodotus, Histories 2.156 - Equated with Egyptian God Set =====
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 <blockquote>[Leto, the Egyptian goddess Buto] taking charge of Apollo [Egyptian god Horus] from Isis, hid him for safety in this island [Khemmis] which is now said to float, when **Typhon** [Egyptian god Set] came hunting through the world, keen to find the son of Osiris. Apollon [Horus] and Artemis [Bastet] were (they say) children of Dionysus [Egyptian Osiris] and Isis, and Leto [Egyptian Buto] was made their nurse and preserver; in Egyptian, Apollon is Horus, Demeter Isis, Artemis Bubastis. <blockquote>[Leto, the Egyptian goddess Buto] taking charge of Apollo [Egyptian god Horus] from Isis, hid him for safety in this island [Khemmis] which is now said to float, when **Typhon** [Egyptian god Set] came hunting through the world, keen to find the son of Osiris. Apollon [Horus] and Artemis [Bastet] were (they say) children of Dionysus [Egyptian Osiris] and Isis, and Leto [Egyptian Buto] was made their nurse and preserver; in Egyptian, Apollon is Horus, Demeter Isis, Artemis Bubastis.
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-[[http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/Typhoeus.html|Source]]</blockquote>+\\ 
 +Source: The History Of Herodotus Volume 1 (of 2); Author: Herodotus; Translator: G. C. Macaulay </blockquote>
  
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