From which the monstrous typhon was born. The meaning of the word typhon in the directory of characters and cult objects of Greek mythology. References and bibliography

57. a) I. II 780-785 (Communication of Homer)

780 The army moved, and it was as if the whole earth was on fire;

Dol groaned, as under the fury of a god, a thrower of thunder

Zeus, when over Typheus he cuts the earth with thunderbolts,

Mountains in Arima, in which, they say, the bed of Typheus;

So the earth groaned deep under the feet of peoples,

785 Suddenly rushing: they quickly passed through the valley.

b) Schol. II. II 785 (Hera's participation in the appearance of Typhon)

It is said that Gaia, indignant at the beating of the Giants, slandered Zeus before Hera. She went to Kronos and told him this. Kronos gave her two eggs, anointing them with his own seed, and ordered them to be put into the ground. Of these, a demon was to appear to remove Zeus from power. Possessed with anger, Hera laid them under Mount Arim in Kili-kiya. After the appearance of Typhon from them, Hera reconciled with Zeus and told him everything. He killed Typhon with lightning and called Mount Etna ... Typhon is one of the Giants, the son of the Earth and Tartarus, the enemy of the gods, as Hesiod says (Theog. 821).

d) Hymn. Horn. II 127-177 (Typhon at the dragon Python and another version of the origin of Typhon)

Was given to him for feeding by the Golden Throne Hero

Terrible, ferocious Typhaon, born for destruction

Once Hera gave birth to him, angry with Zeus

130 After the glorious Athena from his head he

One gave birth to the world. Enraged mistress Hera

And in the midst of the assembly of the immortals she uttered this word:

"Listen, listen, all you gods, and you goddesses,

How my husband dishonored me, the collector of clouds, -

135 Before, when I had just become a good wife to him,

Now again, in addition to me, having resolved Athena,

All the rest surpassed the blessed gods

Olympic!

Meanwhile, Hephaestus, born by me, turned out to be

On the feet of the very frail and the lame among all the gods ...

140 Hastily grasping it in my hands, I threw it into the wide sea.

But the silver-legged daughter of Nereus Thetis baby

She received him there and raised him among her sisters.

It would be better if others than she tried to please

immortal!..

Pitiful, treacherous traitor! What else are you up to today?

145 How can you alone give birth to a light-eyed Athena?

Wouldn't I be able to give birth? After all, your wife

I am called among the immortals, who have a wide sky!

Now, however, I will try, as if my child, -

Without dishonoring our sacred beds with you, -

150 To give birth to the world, so that it shone among all the gods.

I won't come to your bed again. Away from you

From now on, I will be among the immortal gods.

Saying so, she moved away from the gods

with an angry heart.

And she laid her hand on the ground with her hairy Hera,

155 And as she prayed, she uttered this word:

“Listen to me now, you Earth and the wide Sky!

Listen to the gods Titans, around Tartarus in the depths of the underground

Those who conduct life, you, from whom both people and gods!

Do what I ask: besides the husband of Kronid

160 Give me a son, so that he is not weaker in strength than Zeus,

But he would have surpassed him, as Zeus surpasses Kronos!

So she exclaimed. And hit the ground with a magnificent hand.

The life-giving earth shook. Seeing this

Hera rejoiced: she decided - the request was heard.

165 And not a single time since then in the course of a year

She did not ascend to the bed of the wise Zeus

And did not sit down, as before, on her magnificent throne,

on which

She often gave reasonable advice to her husband in disputes.

In their prayerful temples of their sacred being,

170 Amuses herself with the sacrifices brought to her, Hera the queen.

After the days and nights had ended,

His year has completed the set circle, and the time has come, -

A son was born to her, neither similar to the gods, nor to mortals,

Terrible, ferocious Typhaon, for mortals

doom and horror

175 Immediately the dragon gave him a long-eyed Hera,

Applying evil to evil. And the Dragon accepted what was brought.

He caused glorious human tribes

a lot of misfortunes

e) Aesch. Prom. 351-372 (Prometheus on Typhon)

Still I remember bitterly the Cilician mountains

Nomad, outlandish monster, -

Typhon hundred-headed, born

Earth. He rose bravely against all the gods.

355 Flaming, terribly gnashing jaws.

Arrows of lightning rained from the eyes of the Gorgons.

He threatened to squander the throne with the power of Zeus.

But sleepless thunder threw Zeus into the dust,

Fallen from the sky, burst into flames,

360 He humbled the arrogant boast.

He hit the heart, and the brother fell,

Incinerated into ashes, burned to the smut.

Helpless gigantic carcass

Prostrated heavily by the narrow strait,

365 Crushed by the roots of Etna. Day and night

Hephaestus forges ore on a steeper slope,

But the hour will come - and they will break out of the black bowels

Fire streams, greedy jaws

The arable lands of ripe Sicily are swallowing up.

370 Molten, fiery rage,

All-devouring rage will vomit

Typhon, even though Zeus is charred by lightning.

f) Pind. Pyth. I 15

But everything that Zeus did not love, everywhere, both on earth and on the boundless sea, having heard the voice of Pierid, trembles, like the enemy of the gods, prostrate in black Tartarus, the hundred-headed Typhon. Once he was nurtured by the glorious cave of Cilicia, and now his hairy Persians are crushed by all the weight of the hills of Kim and Sicily girdling the sea. Snowy Etna leaned on him, a mass reaching the sky, the eternal nurse of the blinding eyes of snow. From her, from her depths, sacred streams of fire do not allow themselves to erupt, and these rivers smoke during the day with clouds of yellow smoke; but in the darkness of the nights, the red-tongued flames noisily carry stones deep into the depths of the sea. That - the monstrous Typhon spews terrible streams of Hephaestus at us; then - a miracle that plunges into surprise both those who saw him and those who heard about him from eyewitnesses - how Typhon lies in strong chains between the peaks covered with blackened forest and the foot of Etna, and how his prickly bed torments him, to which everything is nailed his body.

g) Pind. 01. IV 5

O you, child of Kronos, who owns Etna, the stormy burden of the hundred-headed mighty Typhon! ..

h) Pind., frg. 91-93

58. a) Apollod. I 6, 3 (Typhon)

When the gods defeated the Giants, Gaia became even more angry, married Tartarus and gave birth in Cilicia to Typhon, who had a mixed nature - a man and a beast. This one surpassed in growth and strength all those who gave birth to Gaia. His body to the hips had a human appearance and was of exorbitant size, so that it exceeded all mountains, and his head often touched even the stars. His arms were such that one extended to the West, the other to the East; above them towered a hundred dragon heads. Part of the body below the hips had huge rings of snakes, the coils of which stretched to the very top and emitted a loud hiss. His whole body was covered with feathers, shaggy hair from his head and from his chin fluttered in the wind, fire shone in his eyes. Such in appearance and such a huge growth was Typhon. Throwing flaming stones, he rushed with a hiss and a cry against the very sky, and from his mouth he spewed a hurricane of fire. When the gods saw how he rushed against the sky, they rushed to Egypt and, pursued by him, changed their appearance into animals. While Typhon was far away, Zeus struck him with lightning, but when he came close, he began to beat him with a diamond sickle. Then he turned to flight, and Zeus pursued him to the Casian mountain. This mountain rises above Syria. There, Zeus saw that Typhon was wounded, and began hand-to-hand combat with him. Typhon, wrapping his rings around him, grabbed him and, taking away the sickle, cut the muscles of his arms and legs. Then he picked him up and carried him on his shoulders across the sea to Cilicia. Then coming to the Korikian cave, he laid it there. In the same way, he put his muscles there, hiding them in a bearskin, and as a guard put the serpent Dolphin. This girl was a half beast. Hermes, together with Aegipanos, stole these muscles and secretly applied them to Zeus. When Zeus regained his former strength, he suddenly flew from the sky, sitting on a chariot drawn by winged horses, and began to strike Typhon with lightning. Finally, he drove him to a mountain named Nysa. There, when Typhon was overtaken, the Moirai deceived him. Indeed, he, believing them that he would become even stronger, ate the one-day fruits. Pursued, he again came to Thrace and during the battle near Theme he threw whole mountains. But when, under lightning strikes, they fell back on him, he shed a lot of his blood on the mountain. And, as they say, from this the mountain got the name Gemona. When he rushed to flee through the Sicilian Sea, Zeus piled Mount Etna on him in Sicily. This mountain is extraordinarily high, and from it even now, as they say, from the lightning thrown then eruptions of fire occur.

b)Ov. Met. V 318-331 (Song of the Muse about Typhon)

The maiden who called us starts first without a lot.

Sings the battles of the immortals; repays the wrong Giants

320 Honor, but deeds meanwhile belittle the great gods:

As if when Typheus came out of the underworld,

He caught fear on the celestials, and they, running away,

The rear was turned until Egypt accepted the weary

In the fat lands and the Nile, divided into seven branches.

325 As if then the earthly Typheus showed up there,

And that the immortals had to be deceived

species to hide.

“The herd leader,” he says, “Jupiter himself became:

libian

We portray Ammon to this day with steep horns!

Phoebus became a raven, the offspring of Semele became a goat,

330 A cat - Delhi's sister, Saturnia - a white cow,

Venus left as a fish, Killenius became an ibis bird.

Wed Ov. fast. I 573 ff.

c) Hyg. Astr. II 28 (Constellation Capricorn)

This image is similar to Aegipane [Pan, in which the goat-like appearance is especially advanced]. Jupiter, having been brought up with him, wanted him to be among the stars, like that goat-nurse, of which we spoke earlier. It is also said that when Jupiter attacked the Titans, this Aegipane was the first to instill fear in the enemies, and this fear came to be called "panic" (panicos), as Eratosthenes states. For the same reason, its lower part is shaped like a fish, and also because instead of throwing stones, it threw tamarisk at enemies. Egyptian priests and some poets say that when most of the gods fled to Egypt and Typhon, the most cruel Giant and the greatest enemy of the gods, suddenly arrived there, the latter turned into different forms with fear: Mercury - into an ibis, Apollo - into a bird called Thracian, Diana became like a cat. For this reason, the Egyptians argue that these rocks cannot be defiled, since they are the images of the gods. At the same time, they say, Pan threw himself into the river and made the back of his body a fish, and the rest a deer, and thus fled from Typhon. Surprised by this invention, Jupiter placed his image among the stars.

Wed Ag. Phaen. et Schol. germ. 284 ff., also Ps. - Erat. Catast. 27.

d) Hyg. Astr. II 30 (The fish that saved Aphrodite and turned into a star)

Diognet of Eritrea reports that once Venus with her son Cupid arrived in Syria to the river Euphrates. In this place suddenly appeared Typhon, which we spoke about above. Venus threw herself with her son into the river and there she took the form of a fish. Later, when the danger had passed, the Syrians, who were near these places, further ceased to eat fish, being afraid to catch it, lest it should seem that they were attacking the guards of the gods in a similar way or catching them themselves. Eratosthenes (Catast. 21) says that from this fish those fish appeared, which we will talk about later.

Wed Ps. - Erat. 13 (about the constellation Pisces); Ar. Phaen. Schol. germ. 240; Ov. fast. II 459; Hyg. Fab. 197.

e) Verg. aen. VIII 298 ff. (Participation of Hercules in Tythonia)

The image of you is neither alone, nor standing up with a weapon

Tipheus is not afraid ...

f) Anton. lib. 28 (Antonin Liberal version)

(1) A demon of extraordinary strength and monstrous appearance was the son of Gaia, Typhon, with many arms, heads, and wings. Huge snake tails started at his hips. He could imitate different voices. And no one could withstand his strength. (2) He wanted to have the power of Zeus. And none of the gods could withstand his attack, but in horror they all fled to Egypt. Typhon pursued them on their heels, but they escaped thanks to cunning - turning into animals. (3) Namely, Apollo became a hawk, Hermes an ibis, Ares a lepidotos, Artemis a cat; Dionysus took the form of a goat, Hercules - a fallow deer, Hephaestus - a bull, Leto - a shrew. And everyone changed their appearance. When Zeus threw lightning at Typhon, Typhon, engulfed in flames, fell into the sea and set it on fire. 4 But Zeus did not calm down, but threw the huge mountain Etna on Typhon and placed Hephaestus on top of it. He arranged an anvil around the neck of Typhon and forges red-hot pieces of metal on it.

g) Hyg. Fab. 152 (Version of Hygin the Mythographer)

Tartarus produced from the Earth Typhon of enormous size and monstrous appearance, which had a hundred dragon heads growing from its shoulders. He challenged Jupiter to a dispute about whether he wants to fight him for the kingdom. Jupiter pierced his chest with a flaming thunderbolt. Since he was blazing, Jupiter imposed Mount Etna, located in Sicily, on him. According to legend, Typhon has been burning ever since.

h) Hes. Theog. 306-332 (Offspring of Typhon)

As they say, with that quick-eyed maiden

[Caustic] combined

In the hot embrace of the proud and terrible Typhon

lawless.

And she conceived from him, and gave birth to strong-hearted children.

For Geryon, she first gave birth to Orff the dog;

310 And after her - the unspeakable Cerberus,

scary sight,

Copperhead hellhound, bloodthirsty beast,

Insolently shameless, evil, with fifty heads.

The third then she gave birth to the evil Lernean Hydra.

This one was nurtured by the blond goddess Hera herself,

315 Burning with indomitable malice towards the strength of Hercules.

With fatal copper, however, that Hydra was slain by the son of Kronid,

Amphitryon branch Hercules, with Iolaus the mighty,

Guided by the advice of the wise Athena's prey.

She also resolved to vomit fire,

320 Powerful, large, swift Chimera with three heads:

The first - a fiery-eyed lion, terrible in appearance,

Goat - another, and the third - a mighty snake-dragon.

In front is a lion, behind is a dragon, and a goat in the middle;

Bright, burning flames spewed out all her mouths.

325 Noble Bellerophon with Pegasus killed her.

She gave birth to the Terrible Sphinx at the death of the Cadmeans,

Also the Nemean lion, in love combined with Orff.

This lion, the Hero fed, the wife of the glorious Zeus,

The people on the mountain in the Nemean fields were settled by the goddess.

330 There he lived and a tribe of people devoured the earthly,

Reigning in the region of the whole of Apesanta, Nemeus and Treta.

But the powerful force of Hercules tamed him.

i) Hyg. Fab. 151 (Same)

From the giant Typhon and Echidna: Gorgon; three-headed dog Kerber; the dragon guarding the apples of the Hesperides beyond the Ocean; the dragon guarding the fleece of the ram among the Colchians; Scylla, who had the upper part of a woman, the lower part of a dog, and had six dogs as children; the Sphinx, which was in Boeotia; Chimera in Mysia, having the front figure of a lion and the back of a dragon, "the Chimera itself in the middle" [words from Lucr. V 905]. From Medusa, daughter of the Gorgon and Neptune, Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus; from Chrysaor and Kalliroi - the three-body Gerion.

j) Hes. Theog. 869-880 (Wild Winds - also a product of Typhon)

Moisture-bearing Winds went from that Typhoeus,

All except Note, Boreas and the white wind Zephyr:

These are from the kind of gods and are of great use to mortals;

The other winds are all empty and blowing uselessly.

From above they fall on a hazy-foggy sea,

Spinning with evil whirlwinds, to the great destruction of people;

They blow hither and thither, ships are driven in all directions

And sailors are killed. And there is no protection from misfortune

To people whom those terrible winds will catch in the sea.

Others of them are blowing on the boundless flowering land

And ruin the lovely fields of earthly people,

Dust plentifully filling them and heavy confusion.

"Typhonia" Nonna

59 a) Nonn. I 154-321, 362-534 [Typhon's theft of Zeus' weapons]

[Typhon steals Zeus' weapons]

Here, on the advice of the Earth, her son Tifoey, a Cilician,

155 Stretching out his hands, he steals the weapons of Zeus -

A flame that carries light, and, opening up the ranks of many-noisy

A sip, screams from all the coordinated mouths of the beasts;

Tangles of fused kites arose from the leopard's muzzle,

The formidable lion's mane of the Giant was licked by tails

160 Intertwined in a spiral, bordered, as if with a bandage,

Bull horns of Typhoeus and in a long-tongued snout

Boars poured their throwing poison mixed with foam.

[Typhon's struggle with the sky and constellations]

Kronid's arrows stacked in the cache of a rocky cave,

On gigantic hands he stretched out the prey to Ether;

165 With a deft hand, he immediately tied Kinosurida

To the very sole of Olympus; the other, grasping the mane,

He shifted the inclined axis of the Parrasian Ursa;

Grabbing with a new hand, he moved Boot out of the way;

Immediately he pulled off Phosphorus; in vain from the circular meta

170 Took and dragged, torturing, the airy responses of the morning;

By the way, he pulled Dawn behind him and, having hooked Taurus,

He even stopped the Mountains of horses that did not finish their term.

Soon under the shadow of snake hair in the heads of Typhoeus

Sunlight mixed with darkness

and, with daytime Helios

175 Having met in the sky, Selena shone at night together.

The Giant did not end there; he went on his way back

Between Boreas and Not, leaving the pole for the pole,

Grasping the Charioteer in the sky with his long palm,

He began to scourge the hail-bringing Capricorn on the back;

180 Having removed two twin fish from Ether, he

threw them into the sea

He also drove Aries from the place - the main constellation of Olympus,

Near the spring orbit, burning with fire on high,

Giving an equal share to the day and the same darkness.

Creeping legs stretched up, Tifoey rose

185 Up to the clouds; stretching out an immense mass of palms

In the cloudless sky, he killed his brilliance and radiance,

A winding horde of snakes approaching, one of which,

Straightening up, she ran along the edge of the spinning axis,

After jumped up the Dragon of heaven on the spine

190 And she hissed to death; Typhoa before the daughter of Cepheus,

Curling their starry hands in the same circle,

In addition to the existing bonds, Andromeda tightened others

Bonds, beveled under their clothes; right there with the tip of the horn,

Similar in appearance to Taurus, the horned Dragon turned

195 And gored, twisting in a spiral in front of his bull's forehead,

Upright Hyades, which are like horned Selene;

He opened his mouth, and his dragons, woven together,

Poison-filled belts wrapped around Boot like a bandage.

Serpent more insolent than others, seeing the Olympic Serpent,

200 Suddenly rushed at him, jumping through the elbow

And weaving his new crown to the crown of Ariadne,

He bent his neck into an arc, twisted his womb with tension.

Zephyr's belt shifting and Evra's reverse wings,

The many-armed Typhoa rounded this and that other meta

205 On the broadest path. He hooked both Phosphorus and Hesperus,

And Atlantic Hill; rich furrows of the sea

Often grabbing hands, pulled from the abyss to dry land

He is the chariot of Poseidon itself and, the horse from the stall

Taking from an underwater manger, with still sea hair,

210 Threw up to the celestial arc, where the pole changes motion,

Like a projectile to Olympus; Helios's chariot

He also struck, and under the collar her horses neighed.

Several times with a boastful hand he struck the outcast

To them from the yoke at Selena of the bulls that, staggering, mooed,

215 And stopped the course of these similar animals

Or he directed all harnessed bulls in reverse,

Collars white to them - this sign of a deity - tearing

And spilling the destructive whistle of a poisonous echidna.

But Titanide Luna was not inferior to the attacker:

220 Resisted the Giant with exactly the same horns,

The bull's horns were sharpened with luminous curves;

Selena's bulls, full of brilliance, mooed lingeringly

From amazement at the sight of the gaping mouth of Typhoeus.

The Dauntless Mountains gathered constellation troops,

225 And at the call of the supreme circle shone in rows

Spirals of stars in the sky; the air army roared,

In the light of signal fires, announcing the Ether from everywhere,

Those are from Boreas, and those are from the Libyan ridges of the evening,

These are from the Evra arc, those are from the Nota valley; with a consonant

230 Thunderingly moving, the choir of the motionless and unshakable

Stars overtook, on the contrary, wandering; echoed

Through the heavens in the void, piercing to the middle, straight

Axis of the sky; looking at the beast, Orion, like a hunter,

He drew his sword from its scabbard, and when he armed himself with it,

235 The bright edges of the Tanagra blade sparkled in the sky.

From its fire-breathing mouth, expelling radiance,

With a starry throat, the thirsty Dog was terribly worried,

With a fiery bark he galloped, but his growl was not familiar

Zaitsev met, and steam from the teeth of the Typhoean monsters.

240 The celestial pole hummed: changing in turns, it sounded

Echo, and a roar was heard in the sky seven-mouthed of equals

Rhythms of a sip of the Pleiades with circular seven belts,

And, evenly reflecting that sound, the planets hummed.

Looking at the terrible shape of the snake-like Giant,

245 Light of heaven Serpent-holder from hands that avert troubles,

Threw out the bright backs of fire-fed dragons,

He fired a mottled arrow, and, enveloping the light,

Whirlwinds howled around, Serpentine arrows crooked

They rushed into the air, like the furious echidnas themselves.

250 Here is the brave Sagittarius, who is paired with Capricorn on the way

Fishy, ​​shoots an arrow; placed in the middle

Circle of two chariots Dragon, separator of Bears,

A number of luminiferous bands on the etheric spine sway.

Near Erigon Boot, which directs the path of the Chariot

255 Together with himself, with a sparkling hand, he shakes his staff.

Next to kneeling Hercules and neighboring Kyknos

Star Lyra prophesies the coming victory to Zeus.

[Typhon's struggle with the earth elements]

Then Tifoey, seizing, shook the Korikian mountain

And, trampling the inhabited stream of the Cilician river,

260 Tara simultaneously with Kydn hid in one of the palms;

Shooting arrows of stone into the salty furrows of the sea,

He moved to the cliffs, scourging them after Ether.

The Giant walks, immersed in the sea wave with his feet,

And his naked loins remain dry under water,

265 And, surrounding his thigh, wide moisture grumbles;

His snakes swim and from the mouths saturated with the sea,

They hiss to death and, fighting the abyss, spit poison into it.

If Typhoa stands in the midst of a sea of ​​fish,

Only his feet are covered with copious streams

270 Depth, and the Giant's belly is lost in the air until

A cloud and darkens them. When terrible from the head of Typhoeus

The roar of lions with highly bristled manes is heard,

All sea lions hasten to hide under the muddy grotto;

Crowds of sea monsters are all suppressed without exception,

275 Only Gaia fiend will lie down calmly

On the sea, everything that is larger than the earth, - all the seals moo,

Dolphins hide in the sea

in the last depths;

Curved spiral patterned trace embroidering,

An intricate polyp clings to a wide stone,

280 Pretending to be just a dead rock thickening.

All are trembling; even sea eel, swimming up

In your ardent lust to taste the dragon's passion,

Feels shiver from the breath of dragons crawling on the sea.

The sea raises waves that rise like high towers,

285 And reach Olympus; in the course of air currents

The bird, always dry, is watered by the present sea.

Here is Typhoe, possessing the likeness of a sea trident,

Earthquaking palm cut off exorbitant hands

An island with a fifth, distant from the strong coast of the soil,

290 Threw it whole, like a ball in a mutual spin;

In the battle of the Giant, his fists attacked Olympus,

Reaching the stars in the air, and cast a shadow on the sun,

Throwing like a spear, inaccessible cliff tops.

[Typhon and the weapon of Zeus stolen by him]

After the abyss of the sea and the land of fertile seats

295 Zeus the impostor seized the perun crowned with fires:

This weapon of Kronid, having taken two hundred terrible

Hand, the giant Tifoey could lift only with extreme effort;

Kronion himself raised it imperceptibly with his own hand.

Under the withering hand of the cloudless Giant

300 The muffled thunder only made a muffled echo,

Quietly buzzing, and with difficulty from the dried air with snow,

Not dissolved at all, dry dewdrops fell;

Lightning all darkened like crimson smoke

Its thin flame shone with a dull sparkle.

305 Seeing accurately that the hands of those who carry them are clumsy,

Peruns became soft, wearing a masculine lantern,

And stumbled all the time in the boundless hands of Typhoeus,

Jumping in a free way: the thunderous fires were mistaken,

They were waiting for the familiar hand of a celestial, their ruler.

310 Like a horseman unfamiliar with riding, inexperienced in vain

Works in the sweat of his brow, taming the young horse,

That despises the bridle and in his bold reasoning

He feels the unfaithful and unaccustomed hand of the driver,

He rages, stands on end, straightening up and taking it up;

315 Into the ground motionlessly thrusting their hind legs with their hooves,

He waves his front ones and throws his knees into the air,

The mane rises from him and, falling over both shoulders,

From one side and the other flutters around the neck, -

The Giant worked in the same way, alternately grasping

320 The glimmer of a misguided thunderbolt that has become fearful.

[Zeus admonishes Cadmus to enchant Typhon with music]

321 Meanwhile, the wandering Cadmus

comes to Arim...

362 …Typhoy

No longer dared to control the armor of Zeus; Kronid

With bow-bearing Eros, leaving the turned pole,

365 He went up the mountain to meet the wanderer in search of Cadmus

And conceived a cunning plan, conferring with Eros,

How to braid the lace of the destructive Moira by Typhoe,

Accompanying Zeus who understood everything, Pan the goat-lover

Let him provide herds - and bulls, and sheep, and horned

370 Goats; reed hut, erecting

from spiral weaving,

Let him establish on earth and, giving shepherd's clothes

The appearance of Cadmus, hitherto usual, an unknown image,

Imaginary let him wrap the shepherd plausibly;

Experienced in music, let Cadmus own the insidious flute,

375 For the flute will lead Typhoeus to a ruinous death.

Zeus decided so, and, the false shepherd and the lord of offspring

Calling together, he winged order informs both:

"Cadmus, dear, play - and calm

will be in heaven;

When you stop, Olympus suffers: after all

heavenly weapon

380 Typhoa took possession of everything and put on armor.

From now on, only one aegis remains with me -

Against the perun in the hands of Typhoeus, what can the aegis do?

Kronos the old man will laugh, I'm afraid; fear hostile

Iapetus will straighten my back proudly haughty;

385 In Hellas full of legends, I'm afraid that one of the Achaeans

Raincoat did not call Tifoey, high possession

Or the highest, dishonoring my name. Just be a shepherd

Only at dawn and, sounding on the shepherd's chain,

Mind stealer, give your help for the shepherd of the world:

390 I will not hear behind you the cloud-chasing Typhoeus,

The thunder of the self-proclaimed Zeus, and I will tame it easier with you

Lightning in a dispute with me and perun flying arrows.

If the blood of Zeus is in you and Inach is the pet of Io,

The mind of Typhoeus is deceived by the game of averting misfortune

395 Cunning flute his; and I'm for your worthy feat

I will give a double gift: you will be heavenly harmony

Guardian and protector, and you will be the husband of the maiden of Harmony.

You, Eros, the initiator of a direct fertile marriage,

Keep your arrows and do not wander anywhere in the universe;

400 If everything happens from you, love shepherd of life,

You shoot only one arrow to save the situation with it:

Flaming one, ignite Typhoeus, and through you only

My flame-bringing thunderbolts will return to my hands.

Tamer of all, strike only one with fire, and catch

405 Gentle arrow of one whom Kronid cannot take;

May the Cadmian song pierce him with sweetness of the heart

Just as I had the pleasure of being combined with Europe.

[Typhon craves the game of Cadmus]

So he said and turned like a horned bull: from here

The name of the Taurian Mountain came out; and Cadmus, extracting

410 A sharp, deceptive response from nearby sounding reeds,

He leaned his back against a nearby oak near a dense forest;

In rural clothes, he seemed like a real shepherd

He, sending an insidious song to the ears of Typhoeus,

Cheeks puffed out and easily making high-pitched sounds.

415 Then the Giant, who turned out to be greedy for singing, serpentine

Following his feet, he jumped up to listen to a tricky song:

Near mother Gaia, leaving a weapon in a cave

Zeus, he searched near the enjoyment of the sound of the flute,

All devoted to music; seeing him near the thicket,

420 Cadmus was afraid of him and hid in a crevice of rocks.

Seeing from the heights of the head that Cadmus slipped away, ugly

He began to call him Tifoya, attracting him with silent nods;

Not understanding his subtle cunning, he appeared before Cadmus,

Stretching out one right hand to him and not feeling

425 Death snares, and a bloody face like a man

Half grinning, he broke the silence boastfully:

“What are you afraid of, shepherd? What's with your hand

do you cover your eyes?

It is worth pursuing me after Zeus - a mortal husband,

Is it worth it, having taken the lightning, then grab the flute for me?

430 What is common between your reeds and the burning thunderbolt?

You only own a fork: Typhoe got another -

Thunder-full weapons of Olympus; sitting with hands

Deprived of sound, Zeus, who does not own the usual echo,

Without clouds, he needs a shepherd's forearm.

435 You from the reeds of your few seek sounding;

I am spinning not a woven reed,

making up with a reed, -

No, combining clouds with swirling clouds,

I send their thunder in the rumbling sky.

Friendly dispute, if you want, let's start: a reed song

440 You extract when playing, and I will strike with thunder;

You take breath from your mouth, and thick cheeks

Blow, puffed up, yours, and my thunderbolts rumble,

Under the breath of Boreas, trumpeting me, flying.

You will receive a reward, shepherd, for your tarsin: having taken possession of

445 Instead of Zeus, the heavenly throne and the scepter of the god,

I will lift you up from the earth to the ether

Together with your flute, and if you want - and together with the herd;

You will not lose it: I will place your goats over my back

I am a Capricorn similar in appearance, or

450 Where the Charioteer stands, stretching out his shining elbow

To the Olenskaya Goat herself, shedding light on Mount Olympus.

In the form of stars ascending to Olympus, bulls I will put

Around the neck of the broad Taurus that brings downpours,

Or near the dewy meta, where from the sips of burning

455 of Bright Selena, bulls bellow in the wind.

You will not need your small hut; instead of

Thickets of the forest will surround your herd of Ether-Kids.

Nurse others I will create an image for you, so that the Donkey shines,

Similar views to yours, nearby Nursery neighboring.

460 You yourself will be a star-bearing Shepherd where

Boot is visible;

Your starry staff will stretch like a Charioteer,

guiding him

On the Chariot of the Bear that is called the Lycaonian.

Guest of Tifoey in heaven, happy shepherd, you are today

Here, on earth, play, - on Olympus

you will be tomorrow.

465 As a gift appropriate for singing, you will receive a heavenly appearance,

Ascending into the star-shining circle, where I combine

This shepherd's flute with sweet-voiced heavenly lyre.

I'll give you in marriage if you want, I'm the maiden Athena;

If you do not want Clear-eyed, - to Laton, Kharit

470 Marry Kythera, otherwise Artemis il Geb, -

Do not seek only the bed of one Typhoean Hera.

If you have a brother, skilled in chariot pursuit,

Let Helios receive a quadruple of fire.

If you want, shepherd, shake the aegis of Zeus, -

475 I will also allow you, for I will settle on Olympus;

Zeus unarmed does not care for me, and what will cause me

The armament of an insignificant Athena, "only a weak woman?

You, for starters, shepherd, sing of Typhoy's victory,

For I am new now, Olympus Root Scepter,

480 Zeus, I wear a scepter and a tunic with a flash of lightning.

[Insidious speech of Cadmus]

So he said, - Adrastea noted the impertinent speeches.

Cadmus, seeing how the son of the village Earth was carried away

The thread of ruthless Moir to his voluntary death

Driven to drink by a sweet sting

flute pleasure,

485 Without smiling, he turned to him with an insidious speech:

“It is worth it for you to be amazed, listening to the shepherd's flute!

That's what you'll say when I play before your throne

On the seven-stringed cithara, that hymn that will glorify the victory?

After all, I had a competition with the heavenly plectrums of Phoebus -

490 And surpassed him with his lyre; but wonderful sound

My strings were destroyed by Kronid with an ashen thunderbolt,

Bringing mercy to the defeated son; what if i do it again

I will find good veins, I will play you with my plectrum

So that I will deceive all the trees, and the mountains, and the heart of animals.

495 I will keep the Ocean conjugated to the contemporary Earth.

That, weaving in a crown, hurries in the eternal stream, -

Near the meta itself, it will stop the rotation of moisture.

I will stop the detachments of the constellations and oncoming wanderers

Stars, I will delay Phaethon and the run of Selena's chariot.

500 You, hitting the gods or Zeus with a fiery arrow,

Phoebe, however, leave, so that at the meal of the dishes of Typhoeus

I and from the bow Archer opened the competition at the feast -

Someone who will win, Typhoe the great glory

Do not kill the Pierides of the round dance, so that the Muses also

Together in the assembly, sounding under my or Phoebe's command.

He said, with a sparkling look he nodded his head to Typhoa;

His curls shook, his hair vomited snake-like

The poison is plentiful, and it has watered the nearby hills.

510 Hurrying into the cave, penetrating his own, he takes out

Zeus veins and cunning Cadmus brings as a gift:

The veins fell to the ground during the battle of Tythoey.

[Character music Cadmus]

The deceitful shepherd accepted the immortal gift and, feeling

Carefully lived, as if getting along for the future lyre

515 The strings, hastily hid them, laying them in the crevice of the rocks,

To save for Zeus the giant killer as a weapon;

Careful sound extracting from the mouth with a barely noticeable breath,

Quietly squeezing the reed that hides echoes

Cadmus played a lovely song. Tifoey, about deceit

520 Without guessing, he stretched out all his ears and listened to the harmony.

For the charm of the Giant, the dummy shepherd sings

As if the exile of the immortals, playing the cunning flute;

Only in fact he sings about Zeus's next victory,

About Tifoey deadly end - before the face of Tifoey.

525 He arouses passion in him: so the young man

gentle glowing,

Aroused by the sweet sting of love,

for a young girl,

Fascinated by the snow-white oval of a blossoming face,

Eyes longing for luxurious hair rebellious strands,

Looks at hands with their pink skin, ready to look

530 On her pinkish nipple rim, compressed by a bandage,

At her naked neck, gazing insatiably

In the charm of one form, and then another,

And he can't get away from the girl. So to the Cadmus song

The Giant betrayed Typhoa to the end with a deceived heart.

b) None. II 1-631

[The flute of Cadmus and the abduction by Zeus of his peruns from Typhon]

The imaginary shepherd, the son of Agenor Cadmus, remained standing

In the same place, near the dense forest, a flute with a piercing sound

Close to the very lips; while Kronion

Zeus, not noticed by anyone, quietly crawled into a secret cave,

5 He took his usual thunderbolt and armed himself with it again.

Immediately the cloud of Cadmus imperceptibly covered the rocks,

So that, knowing this cunning deceit and thinking about a thief,

Secretly carried away the perun, Tifoya shepherd by mistake

Didn't kill. And the Giant, full of

sweet desire,

10 I only wanted to listen to the rhythm of this song that enchants the heart,

Like how a sailor, hearing the song of a crafty Siren,

He himself approaches death, prematurely and arbitrarily:

Enchanted by songs, he stops surf the wave,

Clear moisture will not foam with an oar now motionless;

Basking, forgot about the steering wheel and does not see the constellations of the current -

Neither the seven-track Pleiades, nor the Ursa of the smooth circle.

Likewise, he, shocked by the breath of a pernicious song,

He greedily drank this sting of the game, foreshadowing death.

20 But the live flute of the shepherd musician fell silent,

Hidden by a dark bank of clouds, and the harmony fell silent.

Here Tifoey, again feeling the passion to fight in the skies,

I rushed into the very depths of the cave where the lightning was,

In search of a formidable thunder, weapons of victory - perun,

25 For a frenzied struggle; explores everywhere step by step,

Eagerly seeking, where is the brilliance of the destructive Zeus

In vain: the cave is empty. And, the insidious plan of Kronid,

Dodgy Cadmus' plan, realizing too late,

Tifoey quickly soared up, throwing rocks along the way.

[Typhon and nature]

30 The trace remained oblique from the leg with the serpentine foot,

And on the move, he spat from a mouth that spewed spears.

From the very top of the Giant, where the hair was - echidnas,

Poison poured into the streams, and the gorges boiled with foam;

In this movement, the very bowels of the Cilician land,

35 Solid in their soil, they shook to the depths of the foundation

Under snake feet; from the overwhelming noise

Top brands trembled in empty space and from

The banks of the rivers near Pamphylia trembled as if in a dance;

A dull roar resounded in the crevices of the soil, and steep

40 Everyone hesitated, all the bowels staggered, the sand of the elevation

They crawled loosely under the impact of footsteps shaking the ground.

[Typhon and animals]

Death threatened the herds and beasts: after all, in the person of Typhoeus

A predatory bear tore apart another bear with its jaws;

A red-haired, shaggy lion's head was devouring

45 Lions articulations of others, and were similar in appearance

Fall with him and with them; and the serpent's throat of an echidna

The cold back of a snake-lander - a dragon swallowed;

Air birds flying in pure ether, neighboring

Beak overtaken were; but he ate the most

50 Close flying eagles, for Zeus's bird is known.

He also ate the bull-farmer, not sparing him, even though he seemed

He is bloodied all over from the yoke due to abrasions on his neck.

[Typhon and Naiads]

Tightly sated, he drinks all the moisture of the river,

Out expelling detachments of Naiads living in grottoes;

55 How will a barefoot nymph, accustomed to moisture, stop,

With obvious difficulty speaking along the bottom along the stream,

Where there is a dry roll, with braided feet, -

The virgin, who is all in awe and dry from thirst, into the cave

He concludes, and dirty bonds bind her knees.

[Typhon and people]

60 Fury seeing the Giant, whose many images are clear,

The old shepherd, dropping his flute, runs away from fear

into the distance; seeing in front of him a numerous bunch of palms,

The goatherd leaves his weak flute into the wind.

The plowman, always patient, does not sow in the field,

65 Smooth beds of earth, showering grain behind them,

The furrow does not cut with iron, which deeply blasts the soil,

What is already all - under the blow of the movement of the hands of Tifoey,

But he unharnesses the bulls; and already under the arrows of the Giant

Many voids were exposed on the arable land, covered with cracks.

[Chaos in nature and lamentation of the gods]

70 Wet veins completely dissolved, and the abyss gaped;

In the very lowlands of the valleys, all the sources filled with keys,

Up to the tops of the earth pouring underground water;

Crashed rocks around the gorges of streams in the fog

And plunged into the seas, exuding moisture in the fall;

75 Lightning, flying out of the ground, like a hammer

Own a number of islands of newborns rooted.

A row of standing trees moved far from the field,

The premature fruit has already fallen to the ground,

just blossomed;

The garden has already dried up, the rosy meadow has already turned into dust.

80 And Zephyr moved only dry leaves of the fallen

Down the cypresses; Phoebus composes funeral songs,

Plaintive crying meeting broken hyacinths, -

With music, a mourning hymn, but groans especially hard

He is about a chopped laurel near the Amikleian peak;

85 Pan afflicted straightens the crooked pine;

And, remembering Morya, the nymph of the Attic community,

Athena sighs bitterly about the olive tree cut down by the storm;

Pafa the goddess mourns the dusty anemone,

Tearing out the most delicate curls from fragrant hair,

90 Frequent tears leah before a cup of dried roses;

Deo is crying that her ear, still unripe, has died,

That he will not see the jubilations of the fruit harvest;

Nymphs of the forests complain about shady trees of the same age.

[Typhon and the Hamadryads]

Here from a split laurel, a beautifully sprouted tree,

95 Hamadryad-the same age, losing cover, jumped off;

Another maiden, running from the pine tree with her light foot,

So he says, going up to a foreigner, a neighboring nymph:

“Hamadryad from laurel, who did not know her husband, come on

We run together - you will see Phoebe, and I will know Pan.

100 Away, lumberjacks! Trees, goodbye! A distressed growth

Daphne unfortunate do not cut; and you have mercy, O builder,

Lay cargo ships from odorous pine trunks,

So that they do not touch the noise of the waves of the sea Aphrodite.

Right, woodchopper, leave it to me

last joy:

105 Rush with an ax, instead of laurel, attach me and my nipple

On the immaculate weapon of Athena who did not know marriage,

So that I die before my husband and go down to Hades as a virgin,

Everything about Eros without knowing, like Pine or Laurel.

So saying, creates a veil as if from leaves,

ON Modestly hiding the nipples on the breasts with a green belt.

Firmly pressed hip to hip,

completely shrinking

Another nymph, looking at her, replies sadly:

"I" like her, tremble because of virginity: I myself, too,

I was born with laurel - and I will be overtaken, like Daphne.

115 How to run? Will I climb the cliff? But high hills

Rushed to Olympus, turn into ashes from lightning;

Pan of the opposite I tremble: he will pursue,

Like Pityus and Syringa, now he will overtake me too

In my flight through the mountains, and I will die like the second Echo.

120 No, I will not go to the top and I will not live on the heights,

Hiding in the mountain trees, where Artemis hunts, -

May she be a virgin and a friend; because Kronion

managed to achieve

The bed of Callista, when he turned into Artemis.

I will throw myself into the sea wave: what is marriage to me?

And yet at sea

125 Unstoppable to women, Poseidon overtook Asteria.

If I had two light wings to go on high,

With the air wind fly along the way and soar in the skies!

But after all, the feathered road is empty: already Typhoe

Too long arms grab even the clouds.

130 But if he oppresses by violent

marriage, I turn around,

I will enter a flock of birds, I will fly as the nightingale of Philomela,

I’ll be a swallow at least, that spring marshmallows love,

Who heralds dew for flowers, heralds roses;

With its singing, the bird babbles talkatively under the roof,

135 Waving and fluttering around the huts in a feathered dance.

Bitterly suffering Procne, you cry for your dead son

In a mournful song, and I will cry for the wedding bed.

Swallow, Zeus, don't make me out of me, so that I won't overtake

Faster Tereus, angry, like Typhoe.

140 The air, and the mountains, and the sea are closed - I will hide, perhaps,

Into the very depths of the earth. But the Giant on vicious heels

The arrow-bearing snakes lurking in it will let it go underground.

If I were a native key and, like Comaifa,

To mix new waters with the source of the fatherly Kydna!

145 But I do not want, as I said: let the mouths not merge

Passionately loving maiden - and my immaculate moisture.

Wherever you run, you will get to Typhoe: from our breed

A son will have to give birth to a multi-species, like a parent.

If I were a friend in the tree, at least in oak

climbed out of the oak

150 I would keep the name of a decent child; no, Daphne

The offspring will not listen to the criminal name of Mirra.

Gods, I pray, through the stream of sighing Eridanus

Let me be Heliade: from my eyes it will drip thickly

Petrified amber, and the top of the head, full of sadness,

155 I will also prostrate to the neighboring poplar leaves.

Intertwined, groaning about virginity in abundant tears, -

I am a product of the forests, and I am ashamed of others to be a plant.

I will be a stone, like Niobe, so that our sobs

160 Another traveler regretted seeing the stone statue;

But this image is tongue-tied. Give mercy, Latona;

No, perish this name - you gave birth against the gods.

[Night and morning before the death of Typhon]

So she spoke. Meanwhile, Phaethon walked in the arc of heaven,

To the west, driving horses; silent night, appearing

165 From under the Earth, covers it like an air cone,

And clothes the heavens with a cloak of brilliant constellations,

All decorating Ether; and along the Nile, devoid of clouds,

Immortal gods walk; from the top of the hilly Taurus

Zeus expects Kronid the light of Dawn, the awakening of the bearer.

170 It was night. On Olympus there were guards in rows,

There are seven belts around, and her roll call is night

It was exactly from the high towers; constellations rumble

The multilingual raced far; from the axes of their echo noise,

The crown is reflected, Selena received the last;

175 Mountains, like air guards, running in line with Phaeton,

They fenced the heavenly crown with a thick veil

From the clouds; at the Atlantean gates, inaccessible to invasion,

The stars of the bolt were laid and locked tightly with keys,

So that with the departure of the gods, an ambush does not penetrate into heaven;

180 Instead of the sound of a flute and the singing of an ordinary flute

The winds flew on wings all night, whistling their songs.

Above Boot is an aged, Arcadian Ursa satellite,

Together with the airy Dragon, looking with an unsleeping eye,

He lay in wait for Typhoeus in case of a night invasion;

185 The morning star watched the east, and watched the sunset

Hesperus, and, leaving the regions of the south to Sagittarius in observation,

Kefey looked around the rain gates of Boreas.

There were fires everywhere, and constellations blazing with flames,

Like the night rays of the always vigilant Selena,

190 It shone like in a war, and with swirling tops

In the jump one after another from the top of the air Olympus

Falling stars drew the air - a signal flame

From Kronion's hand; and, with a throw overturned,

In frequent throwing, the perun flew out of the split cloud;

195

The flame disappears suddenly and reappears again;

Like a grape brush, weaves curl

In the curls of fire: then the light from a rough comet is shaking.

Strange stars, alien, shine like big rafters,

200 Near longitudinal signal lights

stretching out in the dark

Like companions of Zeus; in the rays of Phaeton opposite,

As if shining from a downpour, a circular arc of Iris

Bends upward, creating consonant bands of multicolor,

In alternation, green thickened and behind pink white.

[Nika's story about the gods and her summoning Zeus to fight Typhon]

205 Zeus was still lonely, when she came to him in consolation

Nika, cutting high air currents with his wing,

Having adopted the image of Latona and strengthening his father with courage;

"Zeus, O Lord, be for your children

leader; unless

210 Is it conceivable in a bad marriage for Typhoe to mingle with Athena?

Will she be a mother who did not know her mother? It is better

Let the lightning into action, the light weapon of Olympus,

Better drive away the clouds, Lord who sends downpours:

After all, under the hand of Typhoeus are the foundations of the motionless world

215 Have hesitated already; conjugated four elements

Dissolved apart; the goddess Deo refused the field,

Hebe left the cup, Apec does not take a spear,

The wand leaves Hermes, Apollo abandoned his lyre

And, winged, flies, throwing winged arrows.

220 Taking on the shape of a swan, Aphrodite, who administers marriages,

The shackled world struck with barrenness and dissolved

Indissoluble bonds of unity; bringing brides

Indomitable Eros, taming all and brave,

In fear, he throws his fruitful bow;

from the usual Lemna

225 Your fiery son Hephaestus, lame on the feet of the disobedient,

Quietly and sluggishly runs. Worthy of a big surprise, -

But I feel sorry for such an angry Hera.

Or will your father return again to the luminaries in a round dance?

Oh, if it weren't so! Even though I'm called Titanide

230 But I don't want to watch the Titans own Olympus

Instead of you and your own children. Better with an imperious perun

Fight up. Keeping Artemis without blemish; bride

I am still kept as a virgin, am I for a forced marriage?

The one who controls childbirth, will she give birth herself? And to me

235 Hands stretched out? And what kind of Ilithyia am I when I

Will I myself, Ilithyia, give birth with Artemis together?

[Image of Typhon. Dreams of victory]

So she spoke, and on the darkening wings of Hypnos

Sleep embraced all living nature. However, Kronion

I was alone without any sleep. Tifoey, spread far

240 Sluggish members, burdened rested on the bed,

Mother Gaia is a burden; towards the open womb

Hidden beds, grinning deep into the abysses, were hollowed out,

Digging the soil with snouts, echidnas of Typhoe's hair.

The sun rose; Tifoey multidimensional from all his throats,

245 Roaring together, thundered, calling the great Zeus,

Up to the borders of the Ocean, stable in return,

Regions of the world flow around four, dividing them

And encircling the whole earth with a ring, like a wreath band;

250 The cry of Typhoeus, changing in a series of dissimilar sounds,

It buzzed in a variety of ways and woke up multiple echoes:

All growing in strength, different shades in appearance,

It resounded with the howl of wolves and the roar of lions,

With the hoarse of a boar, the lowing of bulls and the hiss of dragons,

255 With a bold yawn of a leopard and a roar from the mouth of a bear,

The fierce growling of dogs. And the Giant is in half with the human

"My hands, throw down the house of Zeus, move all the roots

World, where the kingdom of the blessed, break the steep bolts

260 There - on the Olympus of the gods; let the pillar air atlanta

He falls to the ground and he himself runs, shocked by the fall;

Let the star-shining vault break away from Olympus,

Not bothering to run in a spiral; no I won't let

To bend the son of the Earth overly loaded shoulders

265 Under the inevitable movement of Ether back and forth:

Let him fight with the blessed, leaving the gods -

what he wants

Their boundless burden; let it destroy the cliffs,

Throws wild arrows at the sky that carries the stars,

Formerly worn by him; let them flee from heaven under attack

270 Rocks are timid Mountains, powerless Slaves of the Sun;

Let everything turn inside out: mix with the earth

Air and moisture with fire, and the deep sea - with Olympus.

I will also stop the violence of slaves - these four winds:

I will slash Boreas, and I will press the Note, and I will strike

275 Evra

Stormy. My relative is the Ocean that swallows the origins

Many will move high-lifted waters to Olympus;

Five parallel circles exceeding the movement of moisture,

He will flood all the constellations, flood the Ursa with thirst

280 Unquenchable, lying under the wheel of the Chariot.

Moo louder, my bulls, shaking the arc in the sky

All equinoctial circles, and colite with steep horns

To the sacrifice of a light Taurus like you, a cuckold.

Let Selena's bulls go astray with their wet roads,

285 In fear of the roar of my bull heads, loudly buzzing.

Let my huge she-bear's mouth, my formidable jaw

Drives Typhoey's saliva to the Bear there, on Olympus;

Let my lion attack the air lion and force

Let him move him far from the ways of the zodiac;

290 Let the Dragon of the Chariot tremble from my dragons,

Barely armed with lights. These violent waves

Seas, earthly hills, steep island headlands

Created for me as swords, and the mountains will serve me as shields;

Rocks are a reliable shell for me, and cliffs will be spears,

295 The rivers will extinguish the thunderstorms unsuitable for business.

I will keep the chains of Iapetus - to shackle Poseidon;

And on the Caucasian peak a certain feathered bird

Better than an eagle to bleed Hephaestus, devouring him

A liver that grows again: like that one, it suffers for the fire

300 Such a Prometheus ulcer with his self-growing liver.

I will throw a vessel into a copper one, like the offspring of Iphimede,

Views like me, the prudent son of Maya,

Inextricable fetters of the wicker; let someone say:

The network that unleashed Ares, Hermes himself became entangled in the network.

305 Let the impregnable bonds of girlhood now untie,

Becoming Orion forcibly wife, Artemis herself;

Let Titias spread the veil of Laton in the old fashioned way,

Lured into a forced marriage; murderer Ares,

That plunders the shields they break, and the lord

Taking Pallas as booty, I will give Ephialtes in marriage

I, although a late marriage: it will be interesting for me to see,

What a day laborer Apec and how Athena is tormented in childbirth.

Taking with a strained shoulder the whole weight of the Atlantean sky,

315 In the change of the movement of the stars, Kronion will carry him on end;

He will hear the wedding of my hymen, captured by mystery

Jealousy, how I will take him Hera to the marriage bed.

I will have plenty of torches: the flash of lightning

own strength

It will burn like a brand in my halls; instead of pines

320 Phaeton himself, attaching the fire of his illumination,

Slavically stretches Typhoe's radiance to the marriage;

And, trembling, like sparks at a wedding, overthrown from Olympus,

The stars will be the lamp of my love

enjoyment -

Stars, lamps of nights; with Aphrodite, tying marriages,

325 Will lay a bed for me, serving, Selena, wife

Endymion; when you need a bath

I bathe in the waters of the star-bearing river Eridani.

Mountains going around, laying the bed of Zeus,

Build now an erotic bedroom for Typhoe;

330 Hebe, Latona, Athena, Pafiyka, Charis, Artemis -

Sisters, bring water from the Ocean to the marriage of Typhoeus.

Serving my feast with a wedding plectrum at my meal,

Let Apollo sing Typhoeus, and not Zeus at all.

What I want is not a foreign land: I intend to rule

335 His brother, who carries all the constellations on his back, - Uranus-Sky, who has a mother's house, the offspring of Gaia.

Bringing Kron back into the light from the underground abyss,

A live-swallower, I, as a native combatant,

I will free you from violent bonds; returned titans

340 I will give back to the air, the offspring of Gaia - the Cyclopes -

I will bring you to live in heaven, we will forge weapons from fire

New: after all, I will need a lot of heavenly thunderbolts,

To fight with two hundred hands, not just a pair of them,

Like Zeus Kronid in everything; I will make lightning

345 Better than the old ones, different, newer, stronger

Ignited by fire; above I will raise another

The sky, the eighth in a row, is both wider and higher than all the others;

Clearer stars I will give him, because he cannot

To completely cover Typhoeus is the nearest peak of the sky.

350 Instead of an entire generation of male and female,

What went from Kronid, I will raise a new tribe -

Many gods with many necks; and hosts of barren constellations

I will not leave you bored without marriage, but I will give out women

All for husbands, to give birth to many slaves for me

355 The winged maiden, giving her bed to Booth.

[Start of the last battle]

So saying, he shouted, and Kronid smiled, listening.

The battle caught fire on both sides: Typhoeia Eris

He leads into battle, encourages Zeus to fight Nick.

Not because of the herd of bulls and not for the sake of the sheep competition

360 Went, there was no enmity for a beautiful nymph-bride

Or a dump for a small town - a struggle arose

For the possession of the sky itself: on Nike's lap

The scepter of Zeus lay and the throne, as a reward for the battle.

Zeus, striking with thunder from the clouds driven, called

365 In the sky of the bellowing roar that blew like Enyo's song,

And, surrounding his chest with clouds twisted in a spiral,

Created protection for himself from Giant Arrows. Typhoa

He did not remain silent: his bullish heads mooed,

Like original pipes, Olympus was deafened with a roar;

370 The dragon entanglements whistled like the flutes of Ares.

Tifoey built a series of his high joints,

Heaping rock upon rock until he raised

Their dense steepness gradually and indestructibly,

From the very foundations, laying a rock over a rock in a row;

375 It was like an army in arms: the gorge was close

He leaned on the gorge, hills on hills, isthmus

On the isthmus and ledge high on the folded ledge;

Their stony helmets were the crown of Typhoe,

Covering the Giant Heads with the highest head.

380 At least the Giant had one body in battle, only in appearance

Many had peaks, but the joints were countless, -

The arms and jaws of lions with their honed points,

Hair in the form of echidnas rising to the constellations.

Whole trees bent in the hands of Typhoeus, against

385 Zeus Kronidas throwing them, but beautiful foliage

The offspring of these Earths jerk their burdened

Zeus involuntarily destroyed with only a single spark of perun.

Many elms died, pines of the same age,

Many huge plane trees and white poplars, broken

390 Lightning of Zeus, and many cracks burst in the soil.

Everything around the world was shaking on all four sides;

Four winds joined together in the battle of Kronion,

Waves rising from the ashes clung to the darkening air;

The sea lashed the land: scourged Sikelia

395 All wavered, and the shore of Pelora was filled with noise,

Just like the veins on Etna; roared in the rocks of Lilibey -

Heralds of future days; rumbled the coast of Pachina

From the west by the current; in the north the nymph Athos

Loudly in the wooded Thracian gorge screams and calls;

400 The Macedonian forest hums and the foothills of the Pierian veins.

The roots of the East are shaking, trembling in Assyrian Lebanon

Fragrant vesi with curly leaves in the groves.

At the same time, as Zeus raged continuously with thunder,

Many arrows from the hands of Typhoeus flew towards:

405 Those who tried to get into the chariot of Selene, only the legs

Fickle bulls were scratched unscathed;

Those that circled with a piercing whistle

through the air, winds,

From different sides, flying in breezes, they instantly sprayed;

Many, having strayed from the direct path under the distant perun

410 Zeus, found themselves under the cheerful hand of Poseidon,

Where the trident did not give them mercy, blowing up the earth;

Walking on the Kronov Sea, arrows that fell on the water

Elder Nereus collected weapons for Zeus.

Terrible both sons of Enialius, Phob and Deim,

415 of his grandchildren, Zeus took as assistants and shield-bearers,

Walking together in the Ether: he put Fob to the lightning,

Deim he approved at the thunderbolt carrying thunder -

Fear to inflict Typhoe. And Nika raised her shield,

In front of Zeus stretching it; shouted Enyo,

420 Picked up the Apec rumble; and through the air, raging storm,

The lofty Zeus is worn, holding the aegis, seated

On the winged chariot of Times, harnessed by four:

United by the wind were the horses of Kronion;

Armed where he is with lightning, where with a thunderbolt,

425 There it attacks with a thunderstorm, but here it pours with a downpour,

Along with the arrows of rain, slashing, as if with stones,

The castle strengthened the ridge; pillars of continuous moisture

Crush like a sharp arrow above Giant heads,

And Tifoey's palms are cut like knives,

430 These arrows of hail, which became a downpour in the air.

Falls into the dust from the palms alone, not grabbing the top,

But continues to fight, hit by a hail wound

Snowy, even in the fall: flying to the ground, in a frenzy

The hand curls in leaps and trembles, opening itself,

435 As if wanting to rush towards the Olympic circle.

[Last Stand]

Here is the leader of the gods, throwing a fire arrow

From above, to the right wing it drives military detachments -

fight at the top; and the gigantic Giant rises to battle

Potholes full of water, and, tied with tight knots

440 Fingers in original binding one by one,

Makes a gutter of greedy palms and a full handful

Mountain water from the rivers is gaining cold, hands

They are deepened and driven by streams in a broken stream

Right on the lightning of Zeus; flooded with gorges,

445 An air torch flickers through the water with a gusty spark

And presses on the water, drying it with burning, -

The wet parts of nature yield to the nature of fire.

The daring Giant wished to extinguish the heavenly flame:

The foolish did not know that the luminous flame of thunderbolts and lightning

450 It originates from clouds that give rise to downpours.

Once again he grabbed from the stream a cave with right angles,

Zeus wants to hit the invulnerable chest with iron,

Tower high to him stretching; but the mouth is only the edges

Zeus breathed softly, - and the breath is light, waving

455 From the very heights of steepness, swirling, overturned rocks.

Having pulled out with a violent hand one comb from the island, again

Terrible for everyone, Tifoey performs in a roaring battle,

Throwing a crest in the face of the still indestructible Zeus.

Marble point, which is directed against, he avoided,

460 Cool face turning down; Tifoey got hot

Lightning current, which changed its path along the curve, and immediately

The white rock from above turned black in tormenting smoke.

The Giant is throwing for the third time. But Kronid is into it

thrown stone,

Moving the brush, carefully grabbed it in the middle of the palm

465 And, like a bouncing ball, thundering in an infinite hand,

Threw back at Tifoey - turning around himself

Many times in a whirlwind of air, back

returning,

The stone, as by its own power, strikes its arrow.

The fight for the fourth time was higher. The cliff that was captured

470 The whole split in half at the very edge of the aegis.

He also threw Tifoya, but the rock that seemed strong

Again with a smashing thunderbolt it was burned and shone.

The mountains could not hold back this moisture from the clouds, under attack

Clouds full of water destroyed hills and cliffs.

475 In general, Enyo kept a balance between the two -

Between Typhoeus and Zeus, and, arrows with a strong bend

In an airy dance, the thunderbolts raged;

Kronid fought fully armed, and in this battle

Thunder was like a shield to him, clouds replaced chain mail,

480 Lightning became a spear, and thunderbolts flying from the sky

He shot through the air like arrows topped with fire.

[Meteorological speculation Nonn]

Here already, leaving to wander irrevocably from

soil depressions,

Dry vapors soared high, rising above the ground,

And, penetrating into the interior of the clouds with a flaming whirlwind,

485 The fraught clouds choked with heat; and with noise among the smoke

So tormented by the clouds, saturated with fiery steam,

A burning flame that cannot come out, lit up inside

In search of middle ways, as in the sky

penetrate the radiance

Fiery is not given; moist air soaked in rain

490 Drops, lightning will delay the jumps, because the moisture from above

Makes clouds dense; when is dry open

The field is below, then the fire penetrates through it by jumps.

Just like a stone that lies near a stone gives rise to

Shine, and original fire pierces their fossil,

495 If a female hits a fire-bearing male stone, -

Likewise, heavenly fire ignites due to pressure

A pair of earth and clouds; the fire that was born from smoke

Thin soil, will help air currents to arise;

He that is from the waters of the earth's vapors and wanders unsteadily,

500 That straight will be drunk by the scorching sun rays

And, moistened, it will be drawn into the Ether along a burning road;

There it will swell completely, will give rise to a shell of clouds

And, shuddering all fat volume from the thinnest steam,

A soft cloud will suddenly dissolve with a rain stream,

505 Returning again to its original wet nature.

This is how a type of thunderclouds is formed and

Lightnings together and their sample thunderous thunderbolts.

[End of Typhon]

Zeus, the father, fought, sending down on the enemy

Currents of habitual fires, reflecting the lions of the spearman,

510 With a heavenly whirlwind, smashing a whole series of many-looking roaring

Herd immeasurable beasts; already the gleam of his arrows

flaming

Burned the endless hands of the Giant, turning into dust

Innumerable shoulders, fidgeting flocks of dragons;

Needles of Ether burned heads of an infinite mass.

515 Behold, the rotation of a comet sprayed the hair of Typhoeus,

Throwing his shaggy fire with an opposite spark -

The heads all shone, the Giant's hair caught fire;

A spark of heaven after the curls hissing with snakes

The seal of silence fell, and the snakes, withered by the comet,

520 Droplets of poison froze at the most open mouths.

The Giant fought, and his eyesight was covered with ashes

Chad smoke; on his faces hardened by snow,

Her cheeks were completely white from the cold winter currents.

I was also tormented by the attack of four attacking winds:

525 As he turns to the east with his eyes carelessly -

Evra will immediately receive a hot battle from a close one;

If you look at the winds of the Arcadian Bear slope -

Hoarfrost will cover him from a cold stormy whirlwind;

Only escape the breath of winter snow Boreas -

530 Will be struck by an arrow moistened and at the same time hot;

If he looks to the west, towards Eos threatening,

He will tremble from the storms that have flown from Enio's sunset,

Hearing echoes of spring lashes from the blows of Zephyr,

Also, Notus, who is hot with breath, directs the run of the chariot.

535 In the air near the midday Capricorn,

The heat of Typhoe is carried by the fiery breath of heat.

Zeus, the raincoat, has just poured a downpour again,

How the whole body of the Giant was washed by a calm stream;

His limbs burned, and he breathed heavily, humble by the thunderbolt.

540 With strong arrows of hail and blizzards that they slew their son,

The mother of Typhoeus was also wounded - the dried soil:

Seeing on his body, the doomed Moira, torment

Stuck stone arrows and their ends, already moistened,

Timidly she began to beg Helios the Titan

545 Give one summer ray to make the flame hotter

Zeus's moisture quickly melt, turned into stone,

On Tifoey in the snow, pouring out a native radiance;

Together with her son she withered away; and looking at the mass

His burnt gigantic hands, surrounded by fires,

550 Pleads to him to bring the cooling wind of the storm -

At least for one day only, so that we can winnow this frosty

I long to extinguish Typhoeus, saving him from adversity.

Zeus has already outweighed the same battle on the scales,

Here, tearing her wooded cover with her hand, she strained

555 Mother Earth: she saw how the heads of

At Typhoeus; all his faces have already dried up completely,

And the knees were resolved. And proclaiming victory

Zeus's trumpet roared everywhere with a thunderous peal.

Collapsed, staggering from fiery arrows falling from the sky,

560 Supergiant Tifoey, receiving a non-iron wound

In battle, and behold, dropping their members, on mother Gaia

Quietly rested, spreading snake joints in the dust

And spewing fire.

[Triumphant sarcasm of Zeus]

And Kronid teased smiling,

Speech pouring out from the mouth of those who amuse themselves with God:

565 "Kronos the old man has found a good assistant, it can be seen:

Only the great son of the Earth gave birth to Iapetus, -

And already takes revenge on Tifoya for the Titans; and how I look

Soon, the thunderbolts of Kronid were completely powerless.

Why are you slow to occupy the inaccessible Ether,

skipper

570 Invented? The collection of Olympus is ready for you:

Get the scepter of Zeus and the cloak, Typhoe the theomachist;

Invite Astrea into the sky, and if you want,

Let them return to the Ether of Eurynomus, Ophion and with them

Let Kronos be a companion; would come with you

on the road

575

Our Prometheus, having escaped the shackles and taken as a guide,

In order not to stray from heavenly ways, my daring bird,

Eagerly eating his liver, which grows again.

What else do you want to see? Probably so that after the battle

580 Did Zeus and Ennosigei serve at your seats?

Zeus, completely weakened, is no longer the scepter of Olympus,

He is deprived of thunder and clouds, his lightning is no longer sacred

Beacon, his thunderbolts are no more familiar weapons, -

Torches only when Tifoey comes to the bedroom

585 Captured by his wife, in the house of Hera living,

The bed which the envious Zeus devours with his eyes.

Paired with him Ennosigei, estranged from the sea, now

Instead of the lord of the seas - Typhoeus, a servant at the table:

Instead of a trident in his withered hand, he brings you a cup.

590 Your mercenary is Apec; Apollo is also your servant;

The son of Maya was sent to the Titans as a herald, so that

He announced to them about your power and heavenly radiance.

Only leave Hephaestus to work on the usual Lemnos,

To make it there for your newlywed bride

595 Colorful beads on the neck - colored, with a shiny finish,

Or the bright play of light on the soles of sandals,

What would delight your wife; or make a new one

Shining gold throne on Olympus, so that it was fun

Your Golden Throne Hera, possessing such a throne.

600 If you want to place the Cyclopes from the earth on Olympus,

New sparks forge for your excellent thunderbolts.

Sly Eros, who deceived your heart with the hope of victory^

With a golden chain he will be connected together with the golden Aphrodite;

Bind Ares with a copper chain, the lord of iron.

605 There is no lightning, however, and Enyo remains in vain...

How could you not avoid the blows of empty and harmless fires?

How is it, hearing with your ears, which have no number,

Little thunder, are you already frightened by the sound of the rain?

Who made you so powerless? And where are your arrows?

610 Where are your dog heads? Where are the open lion's mouths,

The roar of your inner throat, wide and terribly noisy?

Where are the long-tailed needles of your dragon's mane

And why don't serpentine rings hiss in your hair?

Where is the lowing of the bull's snouts? Where are your hands,

615 Instead of a spear, the highest mountains spewed towards us?

Why don't you scourge the already circular arcs of the constellations?

Aren't the protruding teeth of boars already whitening?

Drops of foamy saliva on their soaked chin?

Where are the terrible mouths - the grin of demon-possessed bears?

620 Scion of the Earth, yield to the celestials! I'm stronger

With this single hand, than you are with their two hundred next.

Let now Sikelia, with three heads and with a circle

Steep-high hills, will cover all Tithoey,

Miserable in this guise of hundreds of dusty heads.

625 Arrogant in mind, in hope that has not achieved anything

You wanted to jump to the very top of Olympus;

But I, unhappy, will prepare an empty tomb for you,

And on your trampled grave, wicked one, they will write:

"The coffin of Typhoeus, the giant who once threw into the sky

630 Stones; for this he was struck down by heavenly flames.

Thus he blasphemed the barely breathing corpse of the earth-born son.

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Either Kronos gave Hera two eggs anointed with his seed, she buried them under Mount Arim, and Typhon was born. From Echidna, Typhon was the father of mythical monsters (Orff, Cerberus, Lernean Hydra, Colchis Dragon, Nemean lion, etc.), which threatened the human race on earth and under earth, until Hercules destroyed most of them (except for the Sphinx, Cerberus and Chimera) . From Typhon all the empty winds went, except Notus, Boreas and Zephyr.

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Finally, a well-aimed lightning strike stopped the fury of Typhon, who was thrown into Tartarus, his flames scored from the crevices of Etna. And here he still cannot completely calm down: when he moves, earthquakes occur and sultry winds blow.

Later, when the Greeks became aware of the volcanic properties of the Kuma coast in Italy, the Aeolian Islands and Sicily, the giant Typhon was transferred to these areas.

In the interpretation, Typhon was the leader of the giants in Phrygia, defeated by Zeus. According to others, he was struck by lightning and sought refuge underground, forming the bed of the Orontes River. The "Sword of Typheus" is mentioned by Virgil.

Typhon was later identified with the Egyptian Set, god of the sirocco, death, devastation, solar and lunar eclipses, and other misfortunes. The Greeks called the Egyptian constellation Typhon the Bear.

Typhon is conventionally called a mythical animal, in the form of which (or men with his head) the ancient Egyptian god Set was depicted - he has a humpbacked thin nose, curved down and straight, long, rectangular at the ends, ears, a tail as hard as a stick, split at the end.

According to some Phrygian writing, the son of Aeacus (or Alkey) is the grandson of Hercules.

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• The name "Typhon" was worn by one of the Russian monitors of the type "Hurricane"

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• Myths of the peoples of the world. M., 1991-92. In 2 vols. T.2. pp.514-515, Lübker F. A Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. M., 2001. In 3 volumes. T.3. pp.447-448

Initial deities Titans Titanides Children of the Titans Olympic gods Other Olympians Gods water element Main Chthonic deities Main born on earth Earth

An excerpt characterizing Typhon

The word angine was repeated with great pleasure.
- Le vieux comte est touchant a ce qu "on dit. Il a pleure comme un enfant quand le medecin lui a dit que le cas etait dangereux. [The old count is very touching, they say. He cried like a child when the doctor said that dangerous case.]
Oh, ce serait une perte terrible. C "est une femme ravissante. [Oh, that would be a great loss. Such a lovely woman.]
“Vous parlez de la pauvre comtesse,” said Anna Pavlovna, coming up. - J "ai envoye savoir de ses nouvelles. On m" a dit qu "elle allait un peu mieux. Oh, sans doute, c" est la plus charmante femme du monde, - said Anna Pavlovna with a smile over her enthusiasm. - Nous appartenons a des camps differents, mais cela ne m "empeche pas de l" estimer, comme elle le merite. Elle est bien malheureuse, [You are talking about the poor countess... I sent to find out about her health. I was told that she was a little better. Oh, without a doubt, this is the most beautiful woman in the world. We belong to different camps, but this does not prevent me from respecting her according to her merits. She is so unhappy.] Anna Pavlovna added.
Believing that with these words Anna Pavlovna slightly lifted the veil of secrecy over the countess's illness, one careless young man allowed himself to express surprise that famous doctors were not called, but a charlatan who could give dangerous means was treating the countess.
“Vos informations peuvent etre meilleures que les miennes,” Anna Pavlovna suddenly lashed out venomously at the inexperienced young man. Mais je sais de bonne source que ce medecin est un homme tres savant et tres habile. C "est le medecin intime de la Reine d" Espagne. [Your news may be more accurate than mine... but I know from good sources that this doctor is a very learned and skillful person. This is the life physician of the Queen of Spain.] - And thus destroying the young man, Anna Pavlovna turned to Bilibin, who in another circle, picking up the skin and, apparently, about to dissolve it, to say un mot, spoke about the Austrians.
- Je trouve que c "est charmant! [I find it charming!] - he said about a diplomatic paper, under which the Austrian banners taken by Wittgenstein were sent to Vienna, le heros de Petropol [the hero of Petropolis] (as he was called in Petersburg).
- How, how is it? Anna Pavlovna turned to him, rousing silence to hear mot, which she already knew.
And Bilibin repeated the following authentic words of the diplomatic dispatch he had compiled:
- L "Empereur renvoie les drapeaux Autrichiens," Bilibin said, "drapeaux amis et egares qu" il a trouve hors de la route, [The Emperor sends Austrian banners, friendly and misguided banners that he found off the real road.] - finished Bilibin loosening the skin.
- Charmant, charmant, [Charming, charming,] - said Prince Vasily.
- C "est la route de Varsovie peut etre, [This is the Warsaw road, maybe.] - Prince Hippolyte said loudly and unexpectedly. Everyone looked at him, not understanding what he wanted to say with this. Prince Hippolyte also looked around with cheerful surprise around him. He, like others, did not understand what the words he said meant. During his diplomatic career, he noticed more than once that words suddenly spoken in this way turned out to be very witty, and just in case, he said these words, "Maybe it will turn out very well," he thought, "and if it doesn't come out, they will be able to arrange it there." Indeed, while an awkward silence reigned, that insufficiently patriotic face entered Anna Pavlovna, and she, smiling and shaking her finger at Ippolit, invited Prince Vasily to the table, and, bringing him two candles and a manuscript, asked him to begin.
- Most merciful Sovereign Emperor! - Prince Vasily proclaimed sternly and looked around the audience, as if asking if anyone had anything to say against this. But no one said anything. - “The capital city of Moscow, New Jerusalem, accepts its Christ,” he suddenly struck at his word, “like a mother in the arms of her zealous sons, and through the emerging darkness, seeing the brilliant glory of your state, sings in delight: “Hosanna, blessed is the coming !" - Prince Vasily uttered these last words in a weeping voice.
Bilibin carefully examined his nails, and many, apparently, were shy, as if asking, what are they to blame for? Anna Pavlovna whispered ahead, like an old woman, the communion prayer: “Let the impudent and insolent Goliath ...” she whispered.
Prince Vasily continued:
- “Let the impudent and arrogant Goliath from the borders of France envelop deadly horrors on the edges of Russia; meek faith, this sling of the Russian David, will suddenly strike down the head of his bloodthirsty pride. This image of St. Sergius, an ancient zealot for the good of our fatherland, is brought to Your Imperial Majesty. Painful that my weakening strength prevents me from enjoying your kindest contemplation. I send warm prayers to heaven, that the almighty will magnify the right kind and fulfill the wishes of your majesty in good.

Typhon Typhon ipi Typheus

1) (Typhon, Τυφω̃ν). A monster, the personification of a hot destructive whirlwind; from him Echidna gave birth to Cerberus and the Lernean Hydra. Typhon fought with Zeus for possession of the world and was overthrown by Zeus' lightning to Tartarus, under Mount Etna.

2) (Tithonus, Τίθονος). Son of Laomedont and brother of Priam. Eos, the goddess of the morning dawn, fell in love with him and gave him immortality, but without eternal youth. Therefore, when he became a decrepit old man, immortality became a heavy burden for him. Then Eos turned him into an insect filly.

(Source: "A Brief Dictionary of Mythology and Antiquities." M. Korsh. St. Petersburg, edition of A. S. Suvorin, 1894.)

TYPHON

(Τυφών), in Greek mythology, the monstrous son of the land of Gaia and Tartarus (Hes. Theog. 820-822; Apollod. I 6, 3). According to another version, T. was born by a Hero who hit her hand on the ground when she decided, in retaliation to Zeus, who gave birth to Athena, to also produce offspring on her own. Hera gave T. to be raised by Python, who was then killed by Apollo (Hymn. Hom. II 127-177). T. is a wild, chthonic teratomorphic creature: he has a hundred dragon heads, part of the body up to the hips is human. Below the hips, instead of legs, T. has writhing rings of snakes. The body is covered with feathers. He is bearded and hairy (Apollod. I 6, 3). Each of T.'s sips emits wild voices of bulls, lions, dogs (Hes. Theog. 829-835). T. could become the ruler of the world if Zeus had not entered into a fight with him: he incinerated T. with lightning, hit him with thunderbolts and threw him into tartar (837-868). According to another version of the myth, the victory was given to Zeus with great difficulty: T. wrapped Zeus in rings of snakes, cut his tendons, and locked him in the Korikian cave in Cilicia, where Zeus was guarded by the dragon Dolphin. But Hermes and Aegipan stole the tendons of Zeus hidden in the cave, inserted them into him, and he, gaining strength again, began to pursue T. Moira deceived T., convincing him to taste the so-called. one-day fruits (poisonous plant "ephemeral"), supposedly to increase strength (Apollod. I 6, 3). Zeus piled on T. the huge Mount Etna in Sicily, and from there T. spews fire (Aeshyl. Prom. 365-372). T. and Echidna gave birth to many monsters (the dog Orff, the dog Cerberus, the Lernean hydra, the chimera, Hes. Theog. 306-325). T. refers to the offensive forces of the earth, his fate, like other monsters, is a foregone conclusion in the struggle of the Olympians with chthonicism.
Lit.: Seiprel G, Der Typhonmythos, Greifawald, 1939 (Diss.); Worms F., Der Typhoeus-Kampt in Heelods Theogonie, "Hermes", 1953, Bd. 81, S. 29-44.
A. F. Losev.

(Source: "Myths of the peoples of the world".)

Typhon

Hundred-headed fire-breathing monster; ZeusZeus, having defeated Typhon, piled on him the bulk of Mount Etna, from the top of which the breath of Typhon erupts in a stream of fire, stones and smoke. From Typhon, Echidna gave birth to the Sphinx, Cerberus, Orff, Chimera, Nemean lion, etc.

(Source: "Myths of Ancient Greece. Dictionary Reference." EdwART, 2009.)

Terracotta.
About 500 BC e.
Rome.
Villa Giulia Museum.

Sculpture from the pediment of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis of Athens.
Limestone.
Around 570 BC e.
Athens.
Acropolis Museum.

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• The innocence of simplicity, Kolyshkina Nadezhda Ivanovna. The inhabitants of the Sacred Mount Meru imperceptibly lose control over earthly processes. To be closer to people, they move to Olympus, but even there events unfold in spite of them ...

Gaia-Earth was angry with the Olympian Zeus because he acted so harshly with her defeated children-titans. She married the gloomy Tartarus and gave birth to the terrible hundred-headed monster Typhon.

Huge, with a hundred dragon heads, Typhon rose from the bowels of the earth. With a wild howl he shook the air. The barking of dogs, human voices, the roar of an angry bull, the roar of a lion were heard in this howl. Stormy flames swirled around Typhon, and the earth shook under his heavy steps. The gods shuddered in horror, but Zeus the Thunderer boldly rushed at him, and the battle caught fire. Again, lightning flashed in the hands of Zeus, thunder rumbled. The earth and the vault of heaven shook to their foundations. The earth flared up again with a bright flame, as it had during the struggle with the titans. The seas boiled at the mere approach of Typhon. Hundreds of fiery arrows-lightnings of the Thunderer Zeus rained down; it seemed that from their fire the very air was burning and dark thunderclouds were burning. Zeus burned all of Typhon's hundred heads to ashes. Typhon collapsed to the ground; such heat emanated from his body that everything around him melted. Zeus raised the body of Typhon and cast it into the gloomy Tartarus, which gave birth to him. But even in Tartarus, Typhon threatens the gods and all living things. He causes storms and eruptions; he begat with Echidna, a half-woman half-serpent, the terrible two-headed dog Orff, the infernal dog Cerberus, the Lernean hydra, and the Chimera; Typhon often shakes the earth.

N. Kuhn "Legends and Myths of Ancient Greece"

According to Pindar (c. 518-442 or 438 BC), Hyginus and other ancient Greek authors, Typhon surpassed all living beings in size and strength. It had a human torso, writhing coils of snakes below the hips instead of legs, and 100 dragon heads, with black tongues and fiery eyes. Typhon's body was covered with feathers, and he himself was bearded and hairy. Typhon possessed incredible strength of arms and legs, fire spewed out of 100 of his mouths and heard either the voice of the gods, or the roar of bulls, or the roar of lions, or the howling of dogs, or a sharp whistle that echoed in the mountains.

How did this monster come into being? In a rather strange way. It is known that the majestic wife of Zeus, the goddess - the keeper of the family hearth Hera, had a vindictive and, frankly, absurd character. Power-hungry, she did not want to yield to her formidable husband in anything and quarreled with him for any reason. And Zeus did not miss the opportunity to tease Hera.

After the birth of the goddess of wisdom, Athena (she, as you remember, was born without the help of a woman, straight from the head of Zeus - in battle attire and with a war cry), Hera fell into an indescribable rage. She, having decided to do without male help (to spite her husband), hit her hand on the ground - and in the thunder and roar, the monstrous Typhon was born.

The practical goddess did not leave her creation to the mercy of fate - after all, it is very convenient to have your own pet dragon. Typhon was given to the education of the wise snake Python. Python faithfully served Hera: he guarded her ancient soothsayer in Delphi and took care of food himself, devouring goats and chickens from the surrounding peasants. The venerable serpent could be proud of the capable student Typhon: the little dragon quickly surpassed serpent science, he grew by leaps and bounds and soon began to terrify the entire district. What's in the area! One hundred of his throats could growl, bark, howl and hiss at the same time. The immortal Olympian gods themselves turned pale when they heard the roar of Typhon.

Even the lord of Olympus was afraid of the dragon - and not without reason. Typhon was proud of his great power and soon began to dream of conquering the whole world. And such dreams usually do not end well.

And one day Typhon rose up - with a formidable howl, he threw his huge body into the sky, enveloped Zeus in snake rings, cut his tendons and carried him to Cilicia, to the Korikian cave, where the dragon Dolphin guarded the helpless ruler of Olympus day and night.

It seemed that nothing would help Zeus. The shadow of Typhon hung over the world. And then, as always, the cunning Hermes, the god of secret knowledge, the patron of thieves and merchants, found a way out of the situation. Outwitting the dim-witted Delphine, he stole Zeus' tendons hidden in the cave and inserted them back into him. Jumping to his feet, Zeus rushed to Typhon. Typhon was ready to accept a new fight: he knew that in a fair duel no one could cope with him.

And then the goddess Moira came to the aid of Zeus. They offered Typhon to taste the fruits of a terribly poisonous plant "ephemeral" - supposedly to increase strength. Not suspecting deceit, Typhon chewed one grain and collapsed to the ground with a groan. Zeus threw Typhon into Tartarus and heaped the huge rock Etna on the dragon's carcass. The world breathed a sigh of relief.

So sadly ended for the ill-fated dragon of his dreams of world domination.

If you happen to visit Italy on the island of Sicily, beware of getting too close to Mount Etna. Typhon is immortal. Pressed down by a rock, the dragon in impotent anger scrapes the ground with its claws and spews fire. And it's best to stay away from him.

"Mythological bestiary from Alkonost to Yagil",
Kaliningrad: "Amber Tale", 1999

Typhon (Tethon)- in ancient Greek mythology mighty giant, spawned by Gaia and Tartarus. It is the personification of fire, sunlight and destructive forces. The name Typhon is usually taken from the verb " smoke". But according to another version of the myth, his name is translated as "noon"(world day), as well as " Beginning of the End(worldwide) days". According to legend, Hera gave Typhon to be raised Python who guarded the ancient sanctuary of the gods in Delphi, later killed by Apollo. Typhon is considered father mythical monsters Horta, Kerberos, dragon, Sphinx and Chimera, which also threatened the existence of the entire human race. In Egypt, Typhon was identified with Set and the god of cruel winds Sirocco. As a result, it is assumed that from the English version of the name Typhon, the word "typhoon" was formed.

The Iliad of Homer mentions the struggle of Typhon with Zeus and the stay of Typhon under Mount Arima in Asia Minor. Typhon was depicted in the form of a man, and below the belt, in the form of writhing , intertwined with each other rings of snakes.

Battle of Zeus with Typhon

Above the waist, he had a human body, feathered. He has always been portrayed bearded and hairy because he was hairy star symbol» (comets). His eyes shot out an all-devouring fire. Typhon excelled everyone in height and strength, and had on the back of his head one hundred dragon heads. Typhon was higher than all the mountains, his head touched the stars, and when he stretched out his hands, he touched the east with one hand, and the west with the other. This is how giant comets were depicted in ancient mythology, when they appear, occupying the entire earthly firmament.

His voice is the voice of the gods, a terrible roar that echoes fearfully in the mountains. Typhon was so powerful that became master over gods and mortals, and all the gods fled from him in fear. The legend says that while running through Egypt, the gods took the form of animals so that Typhon would not notice them. Apollo became a kite, Hermes became an ibis, Ares became a fish, Dionysus became a goat, Hephaestus became a bull. ... And only Zeus did not run away from him and dared to fight with him.

From the confrontation between Zeus and Typhon, the earth shook to its very foundations, land, sea and sky caught fire, and even the inhabitants of the underworld kingdom of the dead trembled. In the end, a terrible lightning strike stopped Typhon's rampage, and Typhon was overthrown by Zeus into Tartarus, but for a long time a violent flame beat from the clefts of the mountain. Etna. So says the ancient Greek legend.

But Typhon also has a number of geographical interpretations. Habitat Tifo-on considered Aeolian Islands and island of sicily, as well as Mount Casius in Syria. In another geographical interpretation, Typhon was the leader of the giants. in Phrygia. Typhon struck by lightning formed the course of the Orontes River. According to another myth, Typhon was the son or husband Eos, and the father of Memnon and Phaethon. All this gives us the possibility of a rational understanding of the myth. Indeed, in this case, myths and legends give us geographical landmarks of the areas most affected by cosmic explosions.

Typhon- This is the most terrible comet in the solar system. Later, among the Greek tribes, it became known as Phaeton, and the Sumerians and Babylonians called her Nemesis. In ancient Egypt, it was called a comet. Hyksos(lit. "king-shepherd"), in the Bible it is called Apollyon(lit. "death-beater"). But even in the modern scientific world, scientific authors did not guess to link these concepts together, and still mislead readers, imposing on them the opinion that these are different cosmic bodies.

Typhon. Medieval engraving

And that is why, so as not to mislead their readers, I first introduced a single term for this comet - "comet - retribution". And about the rest, less well-known national names, I will tell in the course of the story, in relation to each case, naming more and more new names of this comet, the most terrible for human civilizations. After all, global cosmic cataclysms, the cause of which was a "revenge comet", more than once put humanity on the brink of complete annihilation, as a result of which the biblical story begins with Adam and Eve.

According to legend, during Noah's flood Typhon, crossing the Aegean Sea, scattered the Cyclades archipelago, the islands of which were previously located compactly.

The fiery breath of Typhon reached Fera Islands (aka Santorini) and destroyed the western part of the island , and the rest, most of the island of Fera, literally burned down. As a result, the island took the form half month. And until now, the crescent is a symbol of the day "Pesach" (a symbol of the day of the cosmic catastrophe), but apart from that, crescent It also has an astral interpretation, which I will discuss in the appropriate place. Giant waves of water, raised by Typhon, reached the island of Crete and destroyed the richest kingdom of Minos. Zeus single-handedly tried to resist Typhon, and their terrible fight moved from Greece to Syria, where, with the fall of Typhon furrowed the whole earth with his gigantic body. According to legend, later, these giant ditches filled with water and became rivers. And for the umpteenth time (see Olyan-taitambo, Tunguska catastrophe, etc. in the article), I am forced to talk about “dry rivers” and giant “dry furrows” remaining at the site of cosmic catastrophes, as a trace of the impact of a powerful ballistic wave from a falling celestial body. The legend says that Zeus pushed Typhon to the north and threw to the Ionian Sea, near the Italian coast ...

And later, when telling about the events of the Cretan catastrophe that occurred in the middle of the second millennium BC, I will tell in detail about the numerous cosmic manifestations of this terrible cosmic catastrophe, the most significant geographical places of which have been recorded for us by numerous myths and legends. We will continue the mythological review of information related to the “retribution comet” with the story of Phaethon, because the ancient Greek legend of Phaethon most fully tells about the events of Noah’s flood, the cause of which was the “retribution comet”.