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darting his lightning at Typhon, Chalcidian black-figured hydria, ca. 550
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In Greek mythology, Typhon (ancient Greek: ), also Typhoeus (), Typhaon ()
or Typhus () is the final son of Gaia, with Tartarus; Typhon attempts to
replace Zeus as the king of gods and men.
Accounts Hesiod narrates Typhon's birth:
But when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven,
mother Earth bare her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of
Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite. —Hesiod, Theogony
820-822.
In the alternative account of the origin of Typhon (Typheous), the Homeric
Hymn to Apollo makes the monster Typhaon at Delphi a son of archaic Hera in
her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of
Hephaestus, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia and co
