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TYPHON
Story by Brandon L. Parsons (2014)

During the Titanomachy

(the War Between the
Gods), where the Titans
and Olympians battled it
out for universal
domination, Gaea (/Gaea)
(Mother Earth and mom
of all Titans) knew that
Zeus (/Zeus) and his
sibling were going to win
the war. When Cronus
(/Cronus), Rhea (/Rhea)
and the rest of the Titans
were finally defeated,

Gaea decided to let loose

one of the nastiest, grotesque monsters ever thought up by the
ancient Greeks as a last ditch effort to defeat the Olympians.
Rising out of the body of the earth came TYPHON, easily the
largest and most fearsome of all creatures. According to the
descriptions, Typhon's human upper half reached as high as the
stars, and his vast hands reached into the east and into the west.
The guy was a Mount Everest-sized pile of death. That body was
where the similarities between Typhon and human beings ended,
though. Instead of a human head, a hundred scaly, serpentine
dragon heads erupted from his city-sized neck and shoulders
(however, some descriptions show him as having a human head,
with the dragon heads replacing the fingers on his hands). Dark,
leathery flickering tongues lashed out of his many mouths like
whips. His bottom half consisted of gigantic viper's snake coils
that could reach the top of his head when stretched out. These
massive coils writhed and flexed constantly, and forever let out
harsh, deafening hissing noises. His entire body was covered in
black and red dragon's wings, and molten lava flew forth from
both his mouth and his huge coal-red eyes, landing on the ground
below and crushing/torching whatever they hit. Even the
Olympians had to change underwear after coming across
Typhon's mighty and monstrous presence!
Typhon...

The Monster of all Monsters...

At the request of his mama,

Gaea, Typhon started
incinerating the countryside,
shattered the land with
earthquakes and tsunamis,
and ripped up and hurling
whole mountains in a fit of
titanic rage. Most of the
Olympians turned tail and fled
Zeus battles Typhon (original Greek version!)
the scene, terrified, and made
their way out to Egypt where they hid from Typhon's wrath by
transforming into small creatures that could hide in caves and
rocks. (if that doesn't tell you how frightening Typhon really was,
then nothing will!) The only three to stick things out and face
down the mountainous monstrosity were Zeus, Dionysus
(/Dionysus) and Athena (/Athena). In the first round, Typhon rips
out Zeus' sinews (his leg muscles), and tosses them off
thousands of miles away, leaving him unable to walk. Luckily,
Hermes (/Hermes), the messenger god, overcomes his fears, goes
out to find Zeus' sinews, and returns them to the Big Guy so that
he can continue the battle.
Even fully rebuilt,
Zeus began to have
second thoughts until
Athena, his own
daughter, started
calling him a coward
and told him to suck
it up and face the
beast. That did the
trick; Zeus busted
out his Cyclope
(/Cyclopes)-crafted
weapon of choice,
the Thunderbolt, and

flash-fried Typhon
with a flurry of onehundred lightning
bolts. High Voltage.
With Dionysus and
Athena kicking in the
assist to keep
Typhon in one place,
Zeus ripped open the
top of Mount Etna in
Siciliy, Italy, and then
shoved the enraged
Typhon down the
hole underneath
(which led down
deep into the
Zeus crushes Typhon under Mount Etna!
darkness and fire of
the underworld.). To finish off the job, Zeus picked up the
mountain again and slammed it back down in its place, plugging
the hole up tight. To this day, Mount Etna still smokes and burps
out lava streams; the ancient Greeks sincerely believed that the
eruptions were due to Typhon's vengeful wrath deep
underground. Typhon's successful vanquishing was cause for
some serious celebration between the Olympians (Zeus forgave
them for chickening out) and it marked the end of the
Titanomachy and the new supremecy of the Olympian gods over
their parents!
That wasn't the end for
Typhon, though He went on to
marry one of the other most
scum-caked, wretched, vile
monsters the Greeks could
dream up; Echidna (/Echidna),
who represented all things
foul. The two of them wound
up giving birth to a whole
army of nasty creatures that
would plague the Greek world for centuries, as well as give

heroes something to defeat in their quests. The two were given

the titles "The Mother and Father of All Monsters."
Their children were many:
Cerberus (https://mrpsmythopedia.wikispaces.com/Cerberus),
the three-headed dog that guards the underworld for Hades.
Chimera (https://mrpsmythopedia.wikispaces.com/Chimera), a
beast made up of three different animal parts.
The Hydra (https://mrpsmythopedia.wikispaces.com/Hydra),
which Hercules had to battle in his Labors.
The Sphinx (https://mrpsmythopedia.wikispaces.com/Sphinx) part-lion and part-human woman.
The Caucasian Eagle - ordered to rip out Prometheus' liver
daily.
The Crommyonian Sow.
The Gorgons - snake haired women who could turn a person to
stone.
The Colchian Dragon - guards the Golden Fleece.
Scylla - a beast that gave Odysseus a seriously hard time.
The Teumessian Fox - a fox that was destined to never be
caught.
Ladon - the dragon that guards the Golden Apples of the
Garden of the Hesperides
(https://mrpsmythopedia.wikispaces.com/Garden+of+the+Hesperides).
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