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the deadliest monster Greek myth ever coughed up, the one that scared the gods into hiding.
means Typhon is a monstrous serpentine giant of Greek mythology, the offspring of Gaia and Tartarus, whose challenge to Zeus terrified the Olympians and who became the source of fierce storm-winds.
from From Greek Typhōn (Τυφῶν), the name of the storm-monster, tied to the verb typhein, 'to smoke, to make smolder' — fitting for a beast linked to scorching whirlwinds and the fiery breath beneath volcanoes. The same root likely feeds typhōs/typhōn, 'whirlwind, hurricane.' It's often tangled up with 'typhoon,' but the resemblance there is partly coincidence: 'typhoon' owes much to Arabic and Chinese sea-storm words, with Typhon's Greek shadow possibly nudging the English spelling along the way.
- divine terror
- sent every Olympian fleeing into Egypt disguised as animals
- size
- head scraped stars, hands touched east and west
- family
- fathered Cerberus, Hydra, Chimera, and the Sphinx
- final blow
- Zeus buried him under Mount Etna, still erupting
typhon in greek mythology — hundred-headed serpent monster defeated by zeus in the titanomachy, described in hesiod's theogony
typhoon in 2013 — super typhoon haiyan devastated philippines with 195 mph winds, killing 6,300 people in november 2013