#typhoeus

[toorurii]

Sorry for no new art recently please accept these misc pieces that I don’t think ever saw the light of day here 🙇🏽‍♀️

[mikeybooch]

@classicstober day 16 prompt: Typhon

There's nothing quite like mother's love...

In some sources, Typhon is the son of Gaea and Tartarus, but other versions of the myth say Hera bore Typhon to spite Zeus after the birth of Athene. When Typhon reached his full power, he challenged Zeus for dominion over the cosmos and very nearly overpowered the king of the gods. He represented devastating storms, and later became associated with volcanic eruptions. 

[theogonyofbeauty]

Zeus and Typhon.

Typhon attempted to overthrow Zeus for the supremacy of the cosmos. The two fought a cataclysmic battle, which Zeus finally won with the aid of his thunderbolts.

[sarafangirlart]

It’s so funny how when Hera birthed Hephaestus she was so upset over his disability she threw him off a Mountain but when she gave birth to the lovecraftian horror that is Typhon she just gave him to some monster lady that she just so happen to be acquainted with and only felt bad about creating him later on. Which is hilarious and sad but also proof that while Hera is a terrible mom she doesn’t care about others appearances, only their usefulness to her.

[deathlessathanasia]

“They report that Gaia, annoyed over the murder of the giants, slandered Zeus to Hera and that she went to speak out to Kronos. He gave her two eggs and he rubbed them down with his own semen and ordered her to put them down in the ground from where a spirit would arise who would rebel against Zeus from the beginning. She did this because she was really angry and set them down below Arimos in Kilikia. But when Typhoeus appeared Hera relented and told Zeus everything. He struck him down with lightning and named him Mt. Aetna. This report works well for us not to have an issue that this is the Homeric Account. He names the grave a resting place euphemistically.” (Schol. b ad Il. 2.783)

This remains the funniest, weirdest and most interesting account of Typhon's birth to me.

[moonstruckdraws]

I just read up on Ekhidna and then Typhoeus (Typhaon) and it was really fun. I didn't learn a lot about Ekhidna, other than all the children she has and her fate. She feels more like a tag along to her husband, in the sense that she goes down with him (quite literally in the mountain they're stuffed in) and the fact she doesn't have a lot of myths, not as deep as Typhoeus.

I do like these Parents of Monsters and I love the myth of all the gods fleeing to Egypt (I need to actually read it because I know nothing about it until now that Typhoeus is the reason it happened)

Idk why but I just like that Hera just brings Ekhidna a husband- I just imagine her initiating the wedding on the spot so her son is no longer her responsibility or something lol

[lostpeace]

I'm still not sure how exactly to integrate the mythological aspect on Cosmos and Chaos, I might just ditch the "mortal names" of the main cast...

At any rate, these are the current designs of the two protagonists, Melicertes and Typhoeus.

[theoihalioistuff]

Do I sometimes like to picture Gaia and Ouranos as the Buried and the Vast from The Magnus Archives?

Maybe.

I need retellings where primordial deities from the dawn of time are presented as awe inspiring, terrifying, unknowable, immeasurable entities whose mere pondering on inspires dread. The Iliad already started this trend when it says that even Zeus dreads causing Nyx displeasure, or the Homeric Hymns when Hera calls on ancient powers to concieve the writhing nest of serpents that is Typhon. The horror is explicit.

Now it's time for modern authors to pick up the slack.