Typhon
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Typhaon
spoken of as
1 expressionTyphaon“Typhon”1 mention
Theogony (Greek)
Men say that Typhaon the terrible, outrageous and lawless, was joined in love to her, the maid with glancing eyes.
in the texts
The Histories
Hostile god deposed by Horus, and later the pursuer from whom the infant Apollo/Horus was hidden on the island of Khemmis.
that on this island that did not move before, Leto, one of the eight gods who first came to be, who was living at Buto where this oracle of hers is, taking charge of Apollo from Isis, hid him for safety in this island which is now said to float, when Typhon came hunting through the world, keen to find the son of Osiris.
he deposed Typhon, and was the last divine king of Egypt.
Theogony
A terrible, outrageous, and lawless being who is joined in love to Echidna and fathers her monstrous brood.
Men say that Typhaon the terrible, outrageous and lawless, was joined in love to her, the maid with glancing eyes.
Barlaam and Josaphat
Egyptian god who murders his brother Osiris and is later killed by Horus.
nor did Typhon the brother-slayer, perishing by Horus and Isis, find means to deliver himself from death.
De Anima
Figure named among the legendary sources of magical doctrine.
Either it is best to be detained here, according to the ‘aori,’ or worst, according to the ‘biaeothanatoi’ — that I may use the very words by which magic, the authoress of these opinions, sounds: