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In Greek Mythology , Typhon ('''Typhaon''', '''Typhoeus''', '''Typhus''') was the final son of Gaia , the earth, this time by Tartarus , the cavernous void beneath:

:''But when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven,
:''huge Earth bare her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of
Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite.


The . The region of Cilicia in southeastern Anatolia had many opportunities for connection with the Hittites to the north. Walter Burkert and Calvert Watkins note some close agreements with the Hittite myth of Illuyankas .

The inveterate enemy of the Olympian Gods is described as a vast grisly monster with a Hundred Heads and a hundred Serpents issuing from his thighs, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus , or confined beneath Mount Etna ( Pindar , ''Pythian Ode'' 1.19 - 20; Aeschylus , ''Prometheus Bound'' 370). where "his bed scratches and goads the whole length of his back stretched out against it," 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 their Olympian manifestation. Amongst his children by Echidna are Cerberus , the serpent-like Lernaean Hydra , the Chimaera , the hundred headed dragon Ladon , the half woman half lion Sphinx , and the Nemean Lion .

Typhon is also the father of hot dangerous Winds ( Greek "typhein" to smoke), hence it is considered to be a possible Etymology for the word '' Typhoon ,'' supposedly borrowed by the Persians as طوفان ''Tufân'' and Arab s to describe the cyclonic storms of the Indian Ocean.

Since Herodotus, Typhon was identified with the Egyptian Set ( Interpretatio Graeca ). In the Orphic tradition, Typhon leads the titans when they attack and kill Dionysus , just like Set is responsible for the murder of Osiris .

In a more recent time, religious scholars have identified him with the Archangel Sandalphon .


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