TYPHON

STORY

• Offspring of Gaia and the pit of Tartarus.
• Challenged the other gods
• Most Gods fled to Egypt and hid
• Typhon cut off Zeus' muscles
• Zeus threw one hundred lightning bolts at him

STORY (CONT.)

• Zeus threw a mountain on him
• He was trapped under the mountain

DESCRIPTION

• Towered over mountains
• His head brushed the stars
• Had huge snake coils for legs
• Had a hundred dragon heads on his shoulders
• Fire flashed from his eyes

OFFSPRING

• Chimaera
• Cerberus
• Hydra
• Sphinx
• Landon (a dragon)

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• He is not a god of anything
• He was made so Zeus wouldn't be the most powerful god
• He was larger and stronger than any other god
• There obviously is no city devoted to him.
• "Mother Earth bore her youngest child Typon of the love of Tartarus." - Hesiod