What does Typhon look like? Typhon - ancient mythology
Typhon was raised by Python, a huge serpent born by the earth goddess Gaia. Some sources report that Typhon's heads are similar to those of humans, but he can reproduce the cries of animals. Typhon is presented in legends as a creature with a hundred dragon heads, a human-like body covered with feathers, and instead of legs the monster had snake rings.
The Iliad mentions the struggle of Typhon with Zeus and his stay in the underground depths, in the country of the Arim or under Mount Arima (in Asia Minor); later, when the Greeks became aware of the volcanic properties of the Cumae coast in Italy, the Aeolian Islands and Sicily, the monstrous giant Typhon was transferred to these areas.
Typhon and Zeus, amphora painting, 550 BC
Typhon and Echidna gave birth to many terrible creatures: the Chimera, the Lernaean Hydra, the dogs Orphus and Cerberus. This creature, born of chaos, carried enormous destructive power. The word "typhoon" comes from his name. Typhon, crossing the Aegean Sea, scattered the islands of the Cyclades, which had previously been closely located. The fiery breath of the monster reached the island of Fer and destroyed its entire western half, and turned the rest into a scorched desert. The island has since taken on a crescent shape. Giant waves raised by Typhon reached the island of Crete and destroyed the kingdom of Minos.
The Olympian gods, frightened by the monster, fled from their monastery. Zeus alone, the bravest of the young gods, decided to fight Typhon. The duel lasted a long time; in the heat of battle, the opponents moved from Greece to Syria. Here Typhon plowed the earth with his gigantic body; subsequently, these traces of the battle filled with water and became rivers. Zeus pushed Typhon north and threw him into the Ionian Sea, near the Italian coast. The Thunderer incinerated the monster with lightning and cast him into Tartarus.
According to another legend, Typhon first defeated Zeus. He entangled the god with his legs, like snake coils, and cut and pulled out all the tendons. Typhon then threw Zeus into the Corycian cave in Cilicia and placed the dragon Delphine to guard him. Zeus was imprisoned until Hermes and Aegipan stole the god's sinews from Typhon and returned them to the Thunderer. Then the enraged god attacked the monster again, and the battle continued. Zeus was helped by the Moirai, who advised Typhon to eat the fruits of a poisonous ephemera to increase his strength. Following this advice, Typhon completely lost his strength, and Zeus crushed the monster with a huge boulder.
At the place where the monster was defeated, the Etna volcano was formed. Legends say that sometimes Typhon, remembering his defeat, spews smoke and flame from the crater of the volcano.
Later, Typhon was identified with the Egyptian Set, the god of Sirocco, death, devastation, solar and lunar eclipses and other misfortunes.
Typhon (Tithon)- in ancient times Greek mythology mighty giant, generated by Gaia and Tartarus. Is the personification of fire, sunlight and destructive forces. The name Typhon is usually reproduced from the verb “ smoke" But according to another version of the myth, his name is translated as "noon"(world day), as well as " the beginning of the end(global) day" According to legend, Hera gave Typhon to be raised Python, guarding the ancient sanctuary of the gods in Delphi, later killed by Apollo. Typhon is considered father mythical monsters Ortas, Kerberos, the dragon, the Sphinx and the Chimera, which also threatened the existence of the entire human race. In Egypt, Typhon was identified with Seth and the god of cruel winds Sirocco. As a result, it is believed that from the English version of the name Typhon, the word “typhoon” was formed.
Homer's Iliad mentions the struggle of Typhon with Zeus and the presence of Typhon under Mount Arima in Asia Minor. Typhon was depicted in the form of a man, and below the waist, in the form of writhing , snake rings intertwined with each other.
 Battle of Zeus with Typhon
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From the waist up he had a human body, feathered. He was always portrayed bearded and hairy, because he was symbol of the "hairy star"» (comets). His eyes cast an all-consuming fire. Typhon surpassed 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 extended his arms, he touched the east with one hand and the west with the other. This is exactly how giant comets were depicted in ancient mythology, when they appeared, occupying the entire earth's sky.
His voice is the voice of the gods, a terrible roar that echoes fearfully in the mountains. Typhon was so powerful that became ruler over gods and mortals, And all the gods fled from him in fear. Legend says that while running through Egypt, the gods took on the form of animals so that Typhon would not notice them. Apollo became a kite, Hermes - an ibis, Ares - a fish, Dionysus - a goat, Hephaestus - 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, the land, sea and sky caught fire, and even the inhabitants of the underground kingdom of the dead trembled. In the end, a terrible lightning strike stopped Typhon's rampage, and Typhon was thrown into Tartarus by Zeus, but for a long time a furious flame shot out from the crevices of the mountain Etna. So says the ancient Greek legend.
But Typhon also has a number of geographical interpretations. Habitat of Typho-na believed Aeolian Islands And island of sicily, and also Mount Casius in Syria. In another geographical interpretation, Typhon was the leader of the giants in Phrygia. Typhon, struck by lightning, formed the bed 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 opportunity to rationally understand 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 began to be called Phaeton, and the Sumerians and Babylonians called her Nemesis. In Ancient Egypt they called it a comet Hyksos(literally “shepherd king”), in the Bible it is called Apollyon(literally “gu-bitel”). But even in the modern scientific world, scientific authors have never thought of linking these concepts together, and are still misleading readers, imposing on them the opinion that these are different cosmic bodies.
 Typhon. Medieval engraving
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And that is why, so as not to mislead their readers, I first introduced a single term to refer to this comet - “comet - retribution.” And I will talk about the remaining, less well-known national names as the story progresses, in relation to each case, naming more and more new names for this most terrible for human civilizations, the comet. After all, global space cataclysms, the cause of which was the “retribution comet,” more than once brought humanity to the brink of complete destruction, as a result of which biblical story and begins with Adam and Eve.
According to legend, during Noah's flood Typhon, crossing the Aegean Sea, scattered the Cycladic archipelago, whose islands were previously located compactly.
The fiery breath of Typhon reached Thera Islands (aka Santorini) and destroyed the western part of the island , and the rest, most of the island of Fera, literally burned. As a result, the island took the form half a month. And to this day the crescent moon is a symbol of the day of Passover (a symbol of the day of cosmic catastrophe), but besides this, 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 battle moved from Greece to Syria, where, with the fall of Typhon, furrowed the entire earth with his gigantic body. According to legend, later, these giant ditches filled with water and became rivers. And for the umpteenth time (see article Olyan-taytambo, Tunguska disaster, etc.), I am forced to talk about “dry rivers” and giant “dry furrows” remaining at the site of cosmic disasters, as a trace of the impact of a powerful ballistic wave from a falling celestial body. Legend says that Zeus pushed Typhon to the north and threw to the Ionian Sea, near the Italian coast...
And later, when talking about the events of the Cretan catastrophe, which occurred in the middle of the second millennium BC, I will talk in detail about the numerous cosmic manifestations of this terrible space catastrophe, the most significant geographical places of which have been recorded for us by numerous myths and legends. We will continue our mythological review of information related to the “retribution comet” with a story about Phaeton, because the ancient Greek legend about Phaeton most fully tells about the events of Noah’s flood, the cause of which the “comet of retribution” appeared.
Typhon and Echidna are ancient Greek mythological entities. According to legend, they are related and have given birth to other terrible mythical entities.
In the article:
Typhon in mythology
Children of Echidna and Typhon
The brother and sister left behind offspring, and these creatures are frequent heroes of ancient Greek myths, monsters that terrify ordinary people. The lion's share was killed by the son of Zeus.
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A huge monstrous dog with two heads. And the father of the Sphinx and the Nemean Lion (or brother, according to the second version), is described in the myth of the tenth labor of Hercules. The owner of the dog is the giant Geryon.
Geryon had at his disposal a herd of magical red bulls, and they were guarded by a two-headed dog. Hercules stole the animals and beat them to death with a club.
Cerberus
The three-headed dog, or Kerberus, spewing poison from its mouth is also familiar to many. It was believed that the monster guarded the entrance to the kingdom of the dead - Hades. The monster's task is to prevent the dead from entering the world of the living. According to descriptions in myths, in addition to three heads, the dog has a snake tail and snake heads located on its back. But there are other descriptions.
According to some, he has 50 or 100 heads, in others he is depicted with the body of a man, huge hands and a large dog head. In one hand he clutches a bull’s head, which destroys with its breath, and in the other, a goat’s head, which kills with its gaze.
Cerberus is a powerful monster generated by Typhon and Echidna. However, he also fell at the hands of Hercules. The hero managed to defeat him with the help of Athena and Hermes.
Lernaean Hydra
A monster resembling a huge snake with poisonous breath lived in underground waters. Variably described as a snake with seven, nine, five, ten or a hundred heads.
It was believed that if you cut off her head, three would grow. One of the hydra's heads is immortal. The myth says that the monster breathes fire, like a real dragon.
Nurtured by Hero, she mercilessly killed people and devoured them. But this monster was also killed by Hercules. He cut off the immortal head of Hydra.
Nemean lion
There are different myths about the Nemean lion. Some indicate that he is the son of Echidna, Orph, and was suckled by Selene. According to another source, a huge lion fell from the moon.
Leo has two features: gigantic size and thick skin. It is impossible to defeat a lion - the weapon could not cut the skin.
The beast lived near the city of Nimea and destroyed the surrounding area. This continued until the Mycenaean king Eurystheus ordered Hercules to get rid of the beast. It was impossible to kill the monster with a weapon, so the strongest of people strangled him.
Chimera
A monster with the head and neck of a lion, a goat's body, and a snake's tail is a frightening Chimera. In the descriptions it has three heads, one is that of a goat, the second is that of a lion, and the third is that of a snake.
There is an assumption that the creature breathed fire. Killed by the handsome Bellerophon, son of Glaucus. The young man hit him with an arrow from a bow.
Sphinx
Zoomorphic mythical creature- sphinx- existed in ancient Greece and Egypt. Today there is debate about who gave birth to the monster. According to one version, the parents are Typhon and Echidna, according to another - Orph and Chimera.
The creature has a human head and chest, paws and body of a lion, eagle wings, and a bull's tail. In Greek myths, this creature is female and has the wings of a griffin. The monster committed suicide when Oedipus solved its riddles.
Ephon
According to myths, this is an eagle that was ordered to devour the liver of Prometheus.
In others, it is the personification of hunger. Was destroyed by Demeter by settling in
TYPHON
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, Typhon was born by Hera, who struck her hand on the ground when she decided, in revenge on Zeus, who gave birth to Athena, to also give birth to offspring on her own. Hera gave Typhon to be raised by Python, who was then killed by Apollo (Hymn. Nom. II 12T-177). Typhon 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, Typhon has writhing rings of snakes. The body is covered with feathers. He is bearded and hairy (Apollod. I 6, 3). Each of Typhon’s throats emits the wild voices of bulls, lions, dogs (Hes. Theog. 829-835). Typhon could have become the ruler of the world if Zeus had not entered into a fight with him: he incinerated Typhon with lightning, struck him with Peruns and threw him into Tartarus (837-868). According to another version of the myth, the victory was given to Zeus with great difficulty: Typhon wrapped Zeus in coils of snakes, cut his tendons, and locked him in the Corycian cave in Cilicia, where Zeus was guarded by the dragon Delphine. But Hermes and Egilan stole the tendons of Zeus hidden in the cave, inserted them into him, and he, having regained strength, began to pursue Typhon. The Moirai deceived Typhon, convincing him to taste the so-called. one-day fruits ( poisonous plant“one-day”), supposedly to increase strength (Apollod. I 6, 3). Zeus dumped the huge Mount Etna in Sicily on Typhon, and from there Typhon spewed out flames (Aeshyl. Prom. 365-372). Typhon and Echidna gave birth to many monsters (the dog of Orphus, the dog of Cerberus, the Lernaean hydra, the chimera, Hes. Theog. 306-325). Typhon belongs to the offensive forces of the earth; his fate, like other monsters, is predetermined in the fight of the Olympians against chthonism.
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See also interpretations, synonyms, meanings of the word and what TYPHON is in Russian in dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference books:
- TYPHON in the Dictionary Index of Theosophical Concepts to the Secret Doctrine, Theosophical Dictionary:
(Egypt.) Aspect or shadow of Osiris. Typhon is not, as Plutarch asserts, a separate "Principle of Evil" or the Satan of the Jews; but rather inferior... - TYPHON in the Dictionary-Reference Book of Myths of Ancient Greece:
- a hundred-headed fire-breathing monster; ZeusZeus, having defeated Typhon, piled on him the bulk of Mount Etna, from the top of which Typhon’s breath erupts in a stream... - TYPHON in the Concise Dictionary of Mythology and Antiquities:
ipi Typheus 1) (Typhon, ??????). A monster, the personification of a hot destructive whirlwind; from him Echidna gave birth to Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra. Typhon fought... - TYPHON in the Dictionary-Reference Book of Who's Who in the Ancient World:
The hundred-headed monster, the son of Tartarus and Gaia, according to Hesiod, and according to some versions, the father of the Chimera and Hydra. He was defeated by Zeus... - TYPHON in the Literary Encyclopedia:
(French Typhon;) - the hero of the travesty poem by P. Scarron “Typhon, or Gigantomachy” (1644). In Greek cosmogony T.- youngest son Gays and Tartarus, chthonic... - TYPHON in the Big Encyclopedic Dictionary:
in Greek mythology, a hundred-headed fire-breathing monster; Zeus, having defeated Typhon, piled on him the bulk of Mount Etna, from the top of which the breath of Typhon... - TYPHON in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
in ancient Greek mythology, a hundred-headed fire-breathing monster; Zeus, having defeated T., piled on him the bulk of Mount Etna, from the top of which T.’s breath ... - TYPHON V Encyclopedic Dictionary Brockhaus and Euphron:
or Tifoei (Tujvn, TujweuV) - a powerful giant, the personification of the fiery forces of the earth and its vapors, with their destructive actions (name T. ... - TYPHON in the Modern Encyclopedic Dictionary:
- TYPHON
in Greek mythology, a monstrous serpent. Zeus, having defeated Typhon, piled on him the bulk of Mount Etna, from the top of which Typhon’s breath erupts... - TYPHON in the Encyclopedic Dictionary:
a, m. 1. soul., with a capital letter. In ancient Greek mythology: a hundred-headed fire-breathing monster. 2. mor. Installation on lighthouses and ships... - TYPHON in the Big Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary:
TYPHON, in Greek. mythology a hundred-headed fire-breathing monster; Zeus, having defeated T., dumped the bulk of Etna on him, from the top of which was the breath of T. ... - TYPHON in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedia:
? in Greek mythology, son of Laomedon, husband of Eos; the latter kidnapped him because of his extraordinary beauty and asked Zeus for... - TYPHON in the New Dictionary of Foreign Words:
(gr. typhon) 1) in ancient Greek mythology - a hundred-headed fire-breathing monster; t. was defeated by Zeus, who piled a bulk on him... - TYPHON in the Dictionary of Foreign Expressions:
[gr. typhon] 1. in ancient Greek mythology - a hundred-headed fire-breathing monster; t. was defeated by Zeus, who dumped a huge mountain on him... - TYPHON in the Russian Synonyms dictionary:
typhon, installation, ... - TYPHON
m. Hundred-headed fire-breathing monster (in ancient Greek ... - TYPHON in the New Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by Efremova:
m. 1) A device on lighthouses and ships for giving sound signals during fog. 2) transfer outdated Smerch,... - TYPHON in Lopatin’s Dictionary of the Russian Language:
Tif`on, -a... - TYPHON in the Complete Spelling Dictionary of the Russian Language:
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57. a) I. II 780--785 (Message of Homer)
780 The army moved, and it was as if the whole earth was on fire;
Dol groaned as if under the wrath of a god, the thunder thrower
Zeus, when he cuts the ground over Typheus with Peruns,
The mountains in Arima, in which, they say, is the bed of Typheus;
So the earth groaned deeply under the feet of the peoples,
785 Suddenly rushing: quickly they passed through the valley.
b) Schol. II. II 785 (Hera's participation in the appearance of Typhon)
They say 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 placed in the ground. A demon was supposed to emerge from them to remove Zeus from power. Being overcome with anger, Hera placed them under Mount Arimom in Cilicia. After Typhon emerged from them, Hera reconciled with Zeus and told him everything. He killed Typhon with lightning and called the mountain Etna... Typhon is one of the Giants, the son of Earth and Tartarus, the enemy of the gods, as Hesiod says (Theog. 821).
d) Hymn. Horn. II 127-177 (Typhon from the dragon Python and another version of the origin of Typhon)
Was given to him to be nursed by the golden-tronic Hero
Terrible, ferocious Typhaon, born to destruction
Once Hera gave birth to him, being angry with Zeus
130 After the glorious Athena from his head he
He gave birth to one. Lady Hera was furious
And among the assembly of immortals she uttered this word:
“Listen, listen, all of you, O gods, and you, O goddesses,
How my husband, the cloud gatherer, disgraced me, -
135 Before, when I had just become his good wife,
Now again, besides me, having been resolved by Athena,
Surpassing all other blessed gods
Olympic!
Meanwhile, Hephaestus, who was born by me, turned out to be
On the feet of the very frail and lame among all the gods...
140 I hastily grabbed it in my hands and threw it into the wide sea.
But the silver-footed daughter of Nereus, Thetis,
She accepted him there and raised him among her sisters.
It would be better if she tried to please others than she did
immortal!..
Pathetic, treacherous traitor! What else are you planning today?
145 How did you dare to give birth to the bright-eyed Athena?
Wouldn't I have been able to give birth? After all, your wife
Among the immortals I am called, possessing the wide sky!
Now, however, I will try, like a child to me, -
Without disgracing our sacred beds with you, -
150 To give birth to the world, so that it shines among all the gods.
I won't come to your bed again. Far away from you
From now on I will be among the immortal gods.”
Having said this, she departed from the gods
with an angry heart.
And hairy-eyed Hera laid her hand on the ground,
155 And, making a prayer, she uttered this word:
“Listen to me now, you Earth and wide Sky!
Listen to the Titan gods, around Tartarus in the depths of the underground
Those who lead life - you, from whom are both people and gods!
Do what I ask: in addition to your husband Kronid
160 Give me a son, so that he will not be weaker in strength than Zeus,
But he would surpass him, just as Zeus surpasses Kronos!
So she exclaimed. And she hit the ground with her magnificent hand.
The life-giving Earth shook. Seeing this
Hera rejoiced: she decided that her request had been heard.
165 And not a single time since then for a year
She did not ascend to the bed of the wise Zeus
And she did not sit, as before, on her magnificent throne,
on which
She often gave reasonable advice to her husband in disputes.
Staying in their sacred temples of many prayers,
170 Queen Hera amused herself with the sacrifices made to her.
After the flow of days and nights ended,
The year has completed its due course, and the time has come, -
A son was born to her, neither like gods nor mortals,
Terrible, ferocious Typhaon, for mortals
death and horror
175 Immediately the hair-eyed Hera gave him to the Dragon,
Adding evil to evil. And the Dragon accepted what was brought.
He caused the glorious human tribes
there are many misfortunes
e) Aesch. Prom. 351-372 (Prometheus on Typhon)
I also remember the bitter Cilician mountains
Nomad, outlandish monster, -
Typhon the hundred-headed, born
Earth. He bravely rose up against all the gods.
355 Blazing, jaws gnashed terribly.
Arrows of lightning rained down from the eyes of the Gorgons.
He threatened to waste the throne with the power of Zeus.
But sleepless thunder threw Zeus into the dust,
Fallen from the sky, engulfed in flames,
360 He humbled his arrogant boast.
He hit me in the heart and my brother fell,
Reduced to ashes, burned to a brand.
Helpless gigantic carcass
Prostrated heavily by the narrow strait,
365 Crushed by the roots of Etna. Night and day
Hephaestus forges ore on a steep hill,
But the time will come - and they will break out of the black depths
Streams of fire, greedy jaws
The ripe fields of Sicily will be devoured.
370 Molten, fiery frenzy,
All-consuming 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, hearing the voice of the Pierides, trembles, like the enemy of the gods, prostrate in black Tartarus - the hundred-headed Typhon. Once he was nourished by the famous Cilician cave, and now his hairy breasts are suppressed by the entire weight of the sea-girdling hills of Cim and Sicily. Snowy Etna lay upon him, a mass reaching to the sky, the eternal nurse of the blinding snow. From it, from its depths, sacred streams of fire that do not allow themselves erupt, and these rivers smoke in clouds of yellow smoke during the day; but in the darkness of the night, the flames writhing with red tongues noisily carry stones deep into the depths of the sea. Then the monstrous Typhon spews out the 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 he is tormented by the thorny bed 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, united in marriage with Tartarus and gave birth to Typhon in Cilicia, who had a mixed nature - man and beast. This one was superior in height and strength to all those whom Gaia gave birth to. His body up to the hips had a human appearance and was of exorbitant size, so that it exceeded all the mountains, and his head often even touched the stars. His arms were such that one extended to the West, the other to the East; a hundred dragon heads towered above them. The 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 hissing. His whole body was covered with feathers, shaggy hair from his head and chin fluttered in the wind, fire shone in his eyes. Such was the appearance and such enormous stature of Typhon. Throwing flaming stones, he rushed against the sky with a hiss and scream, and a hurricane of fire spewed out of his mouth. When the gods saw him rushing against the sky, they fled 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 hit him with a diamond sickle. Then he fled, and Zeus pursued him to Mount Casius. This mountain rises above Syria. There Zeus saw that Typhon was wounded and started with him hand-to-hand combat. 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 he came to the Corycian cave and laid it there. In the same way, he placed his muscles there, hiding them in a bearskin, and placed the snake Dolphin as a guard. This maiden was 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 Nisa. There, when Typhon was overtaken, the Moirai deceived him. Namely, 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 Tem, he threw entire mountains. But when, under the 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 received the name Gemona. When he rushed to flee across the Sicilian Sea, Zeus dumped Mount Etna on him in Sicily. This mountain is unusually high, and to this day, as they say, eruptions of fire occur from the lightning thrown then.
b) Ov. Met. V 318-331 (Song of the Muse about Typhon)
The virgin who called us begins first without drawing lots.
Sings the war of the immortals; does not give justice to the Giants
320 Honor, but the actions of the great gods belittles:
As if, when Typheus emerged from the underworld,
He struck fear into the celestials, and they, running away,
The rear was turned until Egypt received the weary
To the rich lands and the Nile, divided into seven branches.
325 It’s as if earth-born Typheus showed up there later,
And what did the immortals have to do under the deceitful
views to hide.
“Jupiter himself became the leader of the herd,” he says:
Libyan
We still depict Ammon with cool horns!
Phoebus became a raven, Semele's offspring became a goat,
330 The cat is the Delhi sister, Saturnia is the white cow,
Venus became 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 Aegipanus [Pan, in whom goat-likeness is especially emphasized]. Jupiter, having been brought up with him, wanted him to be among the stars like that nursing goat about which we spoke earlier. It is also said that when Jupiter attacked the Titans, this Aegipanus was the first to strike fear into the enemies, and this fear came to be called “panic” (panicos), as Eratosthenes states. For the same reason, his lower part is shaped like a fish, and also because instead of throwing stones, he threw tamarisk at his enemies. Egyptian priests and some poets say that when most of the gods fled to Egypt and Typhon, the cruelest Giant and greatest enemy of the gods, suddenly arrived there, the latter, out of fear, turned into different forms: Mercury - into an ibis, Apollo - into a bird called Thracian, Diana became like a cat. For this reason, the Egyptians argue that these rocks should not be desecrated, since they are images of the gods. At the same time, they say, Pan threw himself into the river and made the back part of his body like a fish, and the rest like a deer, and thus escaped from Typhon. Surprised by this invention, Jupiter placed his image among the stars.
Wed. Ag. Phaen. et Schol. Germ. 284 pp., also Ps. - Erat. Catast. 27.
d) Hyg. Astr. II 30 (The fish that saved Aphrodite and turned into a star)
Diognetus of Eritrea reports that once upon a time Venus and her son Cupid arrived in Syria to the Euphrates River. In this place, Typhon suddenly appeared, which we talked about above. Venus threw herself and her son into the river and there took the form of a fish. Afterwards, when the danger had passed, the Syrians who were near these places subsequently stopped eating fish, being afraid to catch it, so that it would not 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 came those fish that 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 words. (Participation of Hercules in Typhony)
The image of you is neither one nor the one standing up with a weapon
Typheus 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 was hot 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 doe, 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) Zeus did not calm down, but threw the huge Mount Etna over Typhon and placed Hephaestus as guard at its top. He placed an anvil on Typhon's neck and forged red-hot pieces of metal on it.
g) Hyg. Fab. 152 (Version of Hyginus the Mythographer)
Tartarus produced from the Earth Typhon of enormous size and monstrous appearance, who had a hundred dragon heads growing from his shoulders. He challenged Jupiter to argue whether he wanted to fight him for the kingdom. Jupiter pierced his chest with a flaming feather. Since it was burning, Jupiter placed Mount Etna, located in Sicily, on it. 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
[Echidna] combined
In a hot embrace, 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 Orph the dog;
310 Following her - the ineffable Cerberus,
scary looking
Copperhead hellhound, bloodthirsty beast,
Brazenly shameless, evil, with fifty heads.
She then gave birth to the third, the evil Lernaean Hydra.
This one was nursed by the blond goddess Hera herself,
315 Burning with indomitable anger towards the power of Hercules.
However, with the deadly copper, that Hydra was defeated by the son of Kronidas,
Amphitryon's branch Heracles, with mighty Iolaus,
Guided by the council of the wise miner Athena.
She also resolved herself spitting out flames,
320 Powerful, large, fleet-footed Chimera with three heads:
The first - a fiery-eyed lion, terrible in appearance,
Goat - another, and the third - a mighty serpent-dragon.
There is a lion in front, a dragon behind, and a goat in the middle;
Bright, burning flames spewed out from all its mouths.
325 The noble Bellerophon and Pegasus killed her.
She gave birth to the terrible Sphinx to the destruction of the Cadmeans,
Also the Nemean Lion, united in love with Orff.
This lion, the Hero nursed by the wife of the glorious Zeus,
The goddess settled the people on the mountain in the Nemean fields.
330 There he dwelt and a tribe of people devoured earth-born,
Reigning over the entire region of Apesanta, Nemea 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 who guarded the apples of the Hesperides beyond the Ocean; the dragon who guarded 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; Sphinx, formerly in Boeotia; The Chimera in Mysia, which had the front figure of a lion and the back figure 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 Callirhoe - three-body Geryon.
j) Hes. Theog. 869-880 (Stormy Winds - also a creation of Typhon)
The moisture-carrying Winds came from that Typhoeus,
Everyone except Not, Boreas and the white wind Zephyr:
These are from the race of gods and are of great benefit to mortals;
The other winds are all empty and blowing uselessly.
From above they fall onto the hazy and foggy sea,
Spinning in evil whirlwinds, to the great destruction of people;
They blow this way and that way, the ships are driven in all directions
And the sailors are being killed. And there is no protection from misfortune
To people who are overtaken by those terrible winds at sea.
More of them blow on the flowering land of the boundless
And they destroy the lovely fields of earth-born people,
Filling them abundantly with dust and grave confusion.
"Typhonia" Nonna
59. a) Nonn. I 154-321, 362-534 [The theft of Zeus' weapon by Typhon]
[Typhon's theft of Zeus' weapon]
Here, on the advice of the Earth, her son Typhoeus, a Cilician,
155 Stretching out his hands, he steals the weapon of Zeus -
A flame carrying light, and, opening the rows of noisy
A gulp, screams from all the coordinated mouths of beasts;
Tangles of fused kites emerged from the leopard's muzzle,
Grozny lion's mane The giant was licked with its tails
160 Weaving into a spiral, they bordered it, as if with a bandage,
Typhoeus' bull horns and long-tongued snout
The boar was injected with its throwing poison, mixed with foam.
[Typhon's fight with Heaven and constellations]
Kronid's arrows were stacked in the hiding place of a rocky cave,
He stretched the prey to the Ether on giant hands;
165 With a deft hand he immediately tied Kinosurida
To the very foot of Olympus; the other, grabbing the mane,
He moved the inclined axis of the Parrhasian Dipper;
with a new hand Having grabbed it, he pushed Boot out of the way;
He immediately removed Phosphorus; in vain with the circular meta
170 He took and dragged, torturing, the airy responses of the morning;
By the way, he pulled Dawn along with him and, hooking Taurus,
He even stopped the Mountains of horses that had not completed their time.
Soon under the shadow of snake hair in the heads of Typhoeus
Sunlight was mixed with darkness,
and, with daytime Helios
175 Having met in the sky, Selene of the night shone together.
The Giant did not end there; he walked back,
Between Boreas and Notus, leaving the pole for the pole,
With his long palm he grabbed the Charioteer in the sky,
He began to scourge the hail-bringing Capricorn on the back;
180 Having removed two twin fishes from the Ether, he
threw them into the sea
Aries, the main constellation of Olympus, was also driven from its place,
Near the spring orbit, burning with fire at heights,
Giving an equal share to the day and the same darkness.
Stretching his creeping legs upward, Tifoei rose
185 To the clouds; stretching out an immense mass of palms
In the cloudless sky, he killed its shine and radiance,
A curling horde of snakes approaching, one of which,
Straightening up, she ran along the edge of the spinning axis,
Then she jumped onto the spine of the Heavenly Dragon
190 And hissed to death; Tifoya before the daughter of Kepheus,
Curling their starry hands in the same circle,
Beyond the existing bonds, Andromeda tightened other
The bonds, mowed under their clothes; right there with the tip of the horn,
Similar looking with Taurus, the horned Dragon turned
195 And he gored, spinning in a spiral before his bull’s forehead,
The upright Hyades, which are like the horned Selene;
He opened his mouth, and his dragons, woven together,
The belts, full of poison, were woven around Boota like a bandage.
The snake is bolder than others, having seen the Olympic Serpent,
200 Suddenly rushed at him, jumping over the Serpent Holder’s elbow
And weaving his new crown to Ariadne's crown,
He bent his neck into an arc, twisting his womb with tension.
Zephyr's belt shifting and the wings of the reverse Eurus,
The many-armed Tifoei circled both the meta and the other
205 On the broadest path. He hooked both Phosphorus and Hesperus,
And Atlantic Hill; abundant furrows of the sea
Often grabbing with his hands, he pulled him out of the abyss onto land.
He is the chariot of Poseidon himself and the horse from the stall
Taking from the underwater nursery, with still sea hair,
210 He threw up to the celestial arc, where the pole changes its movement,
Like a projectile to Olympus; He brought Helios's chariot
He also struck, and under the collar her horses neighed.
Several times he struck the detached with his boastful hand
To them from Selene's yoke of bulls that staggered and lowed,
215 And he stopped the progress of these similar animals
Or he directed all the harnessed oxen in reverse,
Their white clamps - this sign of the deity - tearing
And spilling the destructive whistle of a poisonous echidna.
But Titanide Luna did not yield to the attacker:
220 Resisted the Giant with exactly the same horns,
The bull's horns were pointed with luminous curves;
Selena's bulls, full of shine, mooed protractedly
From amazement at the sight of Typhoeus's gaping lips.
The undaunted Mountains gathered troops of the constellations,
225 And at the call of the supreme circle they shone in rows
There are spirals of stars in the sky; the air force roared,
In the light of signal lights, announcing the Ether from everywhere,
Those are from Boreas, and those are from the Libyan evening ridges,
These are from Eurus arcs, those are from Nota vale; with a consonant
230 Moving with a roar, the chorus of motionless and unshakable
The stars, on the contrary, overtook the wandering ones; echoed
Through the heavens in the void, piercing to the middle, straight
Firmament axis; looking at the beast, Orion, like a hunter,
He drew his sword from its scabbard, and when he had armed himself with it,
235 The light ribs of the Tanagra blade sparkled in the sky.
Sending out radiance from its fire-breathing mouth,
The Dog who thirsted for the starry throat was terribly worried,
He galloped with a fiery bark, but his growl was not familiar
I met hares, and steam from the teeth of Typhoean monsters.
240 The celestial pole hummed: changing in turns, it sounded
Echo, and a roar was heard in the heavens, the seventh of equals
The rhythms of the sip of the Pleiades with seven circular belts,
And, uniformly reflecting that sound, the planets hummed.
Looking at the terrible appearance of the snake-like Giant,
245 The bright heavens Ophiuchus-holder from the hands that avert troubles,
Threw away the bright backs of fire-fed dragons,
He released a colorful arrow, and, enveloping the light,
The whirlwinds howled around, the serpent's arrows were crooked
They darted into the air, like the enraged echidnas themselves.
250 Here is the brave Sagittarius, who is associated with Capricorn on the way
Fishy, shoots an arrow; placed in the middle
Circle of two chariots Dragon, separator of the Ursa,
A series of luminous stripes on the etheric ridge sway.
Near Erigon Boot, guiding the path of the Chariot
255 Together with himself, with a flashing hand, he shakes his staff.
Next to Hercules bending his knee and Cycnus nearby
Star Lyra prophesies the coming victory of Zeus.
[Typhon's fight against the earthly elements]
Then Typhoeus grabbed and shook the Corycian mountain
And, trampling the populated stream of the Cilician river,
260 Tare, at the same time as Kidn, hid it in one of his palms;
Shooting arrows from stone into the salty furrows of the sea,
He moved to the cliffs, scourging them after the Ether.
The Giant walks, his feet immersed in the sea wave,
His naked loins remain dry under water,
265 And, surrounding his thigh, a wide moisture murmurs;
His serpents swim and from their mouths, which are full of the sea,
They hiss to death and, struggling with the abyss, spit poison at it.
If Typhoeus stands among the abundant sea of fish,
Only his feet are covered with abundant flows
270 Deep, and the Giant's belly is lost in the air until
The clouds darken them. When from the head of Typhoeus is terrible
You can hear the roar of lions with highly bristly manes,
All the sea lions are in a hurry to hide under the muddy grotto;
The crowds of sea monsters are all suppressed without exception,
275 Only the Gay fiend will lay down his sides calmly
At sea, everything that is larger than land - all the seals moo,
Dolphins are hiding in the sea, hiding
in the last depths;
Embroidering a patterned trace with a curved spiral,
An intricate polyp clings to a wide stone,
280 Pretending that he is just a thickening of a dead rock.
Everyone is in awe; even a sea eel, swimming up
In his ardent lust to taste the dragon's passion,
Feels the trembling from the breath of dragons crawling across the sea.
The sea raises the waves that rise like tall towers,
285 And they reach Olympus; with air currents
The bird, always dry, is watered by the present sea.
Here is Typhoeus, possessing the likeness of a sea trident,
With an earthquake palm, an exorbitant hand was cut off
An island with a fifth, distant from the strong shore of the soil,
290 Threw it whole, like a ball in mutual rotation;
In the battle of the Giant, his fists attacked Olympus,
Reaching the stars in the air, casting a shadow on the sun,
Marking, like a spear, the inaccessible tops of the cliffs.
[Typhon and the weapon of Zeus he stole]
After the depths of the sea and the land of fertile seats
295 Zeus the impostor grabbed the Perun, crowned with lights:
Kronid took this weapon with two hundred terrible
The giant Tifoei could raise his arms only with extreme effort;
Kronion himself raised it with his own hand unnoticeably.
Under the withered hand of the Giant who did not control the cloud
300 The thunder was dull, only the sound produced a muffled echo,
Quietly humming, and with difficulty from the dried air with snow,
Not dissolved at all, dry dewdrops fell;
The lightning all darkened, like crimson smoke
Its thin flame shone with a dull sparkle.
305 Having accurately noticed that the hands of the one carrying them are inept,
The Peruns who wore a man's torch became soft,
And they stumbled all the time in the immeasurable hands of Typhoeus,
Jumping freely: the thunder lights went astray,
They waited for the familiar hand of the celestial, their ruler.
310 Like an inexperienced husband unfamiliar with riding, in vain
He works hard, taming the young horse,
Who despises the bridle and in his daring reasoning
Feels the driver's hand unfaithful and without habit,
He gets angry, stands on end, straightening up and lifting himself up;
315 With his hind legs motionless, his hooves stuck into the ground,
He waves his front ones and throws his knees into the air,
His mane stands up and, falling over both shoulders,
On both sides it flutters around the neck, -
The Giant worked in the same way, alternately grabbing with his hands
320 The shine of the erring Perun, which has become timid.
[Zeus exhorts Cadmus to enchant Typhon with music]
321 Meanwhile, the wandering Cadmus
arrives to Arima...
362 ...Tifoi
No longer dared to control the armor of Zeus; Kronid
With the bow-bearing Eros, leaving the sharpened pole,
365 He went out onto the mountain to meet Cadmus, who was wandering in search
And he plotted a multi-cunning plan, conferring with Eros,
How Typhoeus could braid the lace of the destructive Moira,
Accompanying Zeus, who understood everything, Pan the goat-lover
Let him provide herds - both bulls and sheep and horned
370 Goats; reed hut, erected
from spiral weaves,
Let him establish himself on earth and, wearing shepherd's clothing,
The appearance of Cadmus, usual until then, is an unknown image,
Let him wrap the imaginary shepherd realistically;
Let Cadmus, skilled in music, wield the insidious pipe,
375 For the pipe will lead Typhoeus to a destructive death.
So Zeus decided, and, the false shepherd and the ruler of the offspring
Having called together, he gives a winged order to both:
“Cadmus, dear, play, - and calm
will be in heaven;
When you stop, Olympus suffers: after all
heavenly weapon
380 Typhoia took possession of everything from me and put on armor.
From now on I have only one aegis left -
What can an aegis do against Perun in the hands of Typhoeus?
Kronos the old man will laugh, I’m afraid; I'm afraid, hostile
Iapetus will straighten his proudly arrogant back;
385 In Hellas, full of legends, I am afraid that one of the Achaeans
Raincoat did not call Typhoeus, high possession
Or the highest, disgracing my name. Just be a shepherd
Only at dawn and, sounding on the shepherd's horse,
Mind stealer, give your help to the shepherd of the world:
390 I won’t hear the cloud chaser Typhoeus behind you,
The thunder of the self-proclaimed Zeus, and I will tame it easier with you
Lightning in an argument with me and Perun's flying arrows.
If the blood of Zeus is in you and Inachus is Io's pet,
The mind of Typhoeus is a game of averting misfortune
395 With his cunning pipe; and I’m for your worthy feat
I will give you a double gift: you will be in heavenly harmony
Guardian and protector, and you will be the husband of the Virgin of Harmony.
You, Eros, are the initiator of a direct fertile marriage,
Hold your arrows and do not wander anywhere in the universe;
400 If everything happens from you, loving shepherd of life,
Shoot just one arrow to save the situation:
Fiery, ignite Typhoeus, and through you only
My flame-bringing Peruns will return to my hands.
Tamer of all, strike one with only fire, and he will catch
405 The gentle arrow of one whom Kronidas cannot take;
Let Cadmus's song pierce him with heart's delight.
Just as I enjoyed being united with Europe.”
[Typhon longs for Cadmus' game]
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 tree in a dense forest;
In rural clothes, he seemed like a real shepherd
He, sending an insidious song to the ears of Typhoeus,
Puffing out the cheeks and easily making high-pitched sounds.
415 Here the Giant turned out to be greedy for singing, serpentine
Following his foot, he jumped up to listen to the tricky song:
Leaving a weapon in a cave near Mother Gaia
Zeus, he looked for near the pleasure 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 cleft of the rocks.
Seeing from the heights of his head that Cadmus had slipped away, ugly
He began to call him Tifoya, attracting him with silent nods;
Not understanding his subtle trick, he appeared before Cadmus,
Extending one right hand towards him and not feeling
425 Death is lurking, and with a bloody face, like a man
Half grinning, he broke the silence boastfully:
“What are you afraid of, shepherd? What's with your hand?
are you covering your eyes?
It is worth pursuing me after Zeus - a mortal husband,
Should I, having taken the lightning, then grab the pipe?
430 What do your reeds and burning Perun have in common?
You only own a foregrip: Typhoeus got something else -
Arms of Olympus full of thunder; sitting with hands
Deprived of sound, Zeus, who does not own the usual echo,
Without clouds, he needs a shepherd's horse.
435 You, from your few reeds, achieve sound;
I'm not twirling woven reeds,
composing with reeds, -
No, combining clouds with swirling clouds,
I send their consonant thunder in the thundering sky.
Friendly dispute, if you want, let's start: reed song
440 You draw out when playing, and I will strike with thunder;
You take the breath out of your mouth, and your thick cheeks
Yours are blowing, swollen, and mine are thundering,
Under the breath of Boreas, trumpeting me, flying by.
You will receive a bribe, shepherd, for your sheep: having taken possession
445 Instead of Zeus, the heavenly throne and scepter of god,
I will take you after me from the earth to the ether
Together with your pipe, and if you want - together with the flock;
You will not lose it: I will place your goats above my back
I am a Capricorn, similar in appearance to them, or
450 Where the Charioteer stands, stretching out his shining elbow
To the Olenskaya Goat itself, shedding light on Olympus.
In the image of the stars ascending to Olympus, I will place bulls
Near the neck of broad Taurus, who brings showers,
Or near the dewy meth, where from the throats of burning
455 of Bright Selene, the bulls moo in the wind.
You will not need your little hut; and instead
The thicket of the forest will surround your herd of etheric goats.
I will create an image of another manger for you, so that the Donkey shines,
Similar in appearance to yours, there are neighboring nurseries nearby.
460 You yourself will be the star-bearing Shepherd where
Boota is visible;
You will stretch out your starry staff like the Charioteer,
guiding him
To the Chariot of the Ursa that is called Lycaon.
Guest of Typhoeus in heaven, happy shepherd, you are today
Here on earth, play, but on Olympus
you will be there tomorrow.
465 As a gift due for singing you will receive a heavenly appearance,
Having ascended into the star-shining circle, where I combine
This shepherd's pipe with the sweet-voiced heavenly Lyre.
I will give you in marriage, if you wish, I am the virgin Athena;
If you don’t want Clear-Eyed, then Latona, Kharitu
470 Marry Cytharea, or else Artemis or Hebe, -
Do not just seek the bed of Typhoean Hera alone.
If you have a brother who is skilled in chariot racing,
Let Helios receive fire quadruplets.
If you want, shepherd, to shake the aegis of Zeus, -
475 I will also allow you, for I will settle on Olympus;
Zeus unarmed does not care about me, and what will harm me
The armament of insignificant Athena, "only a weak woman?
First of all, shepherd, sing the victory of Typhoeus,
For I am new now, the root scepter of Olympus,
480 Zeus I wear a scepter and a tunic with flashing lightning.”
[The treacherous speeches of Cadmus]
That’s what he said,” Adrastea noted the daring speeches.
Cadmus, seeing how the son of the village Earth was carried away
The thread of the ruthless Moira to his voluntary death
Driven by a sweet sting to drink
enjoyment of the pipe,
485 Without smiling, he addressed him with an insidious speech:
“You should be amazed, listening to the shepherd’s pipe!
That's what you will say when I play before your throne
On the seven-stringed cithara is that hymn that will glorify victory?
I had a competition with the heavenly plectrums of Phoebus -
490 And he surpassed him with his lyre; but beautiful sound
My strings were destroyed by Kronid with the ashen Perun,
Bringing mercy to the defeated son; what if I again
I'll find good veins, I'll play for you with my plectrum
So that I will deceive all trees, and mountains, and the hearts of animals.
495 I will hold the Ocean, contemporary to the Earth.
Which, braided with a crown, hurries in the eternal flow, -
Near the surface itself, it will stop the rotation of moisture.
I will stop the troops of constellations and oncoming wandering
Stars, I will delay the Phaeton and the running of Selene’s chariot.
500 You, striking the gods or Zeus with a fiery arrow,
However, leave Phoebus, so that at the meal of Typhoeus's dishes
I and Archer opened the competition at the feast -
Someone will defeat whom, glorify Typhoeus the Great
Do not kill the Pierid of the round dance, so that the Muses too
Together in the assembly, sounding under my or Phoebus’s leadership.”
He said, nodded his head with a sparkling gaze;
His curls shook, his hair belched like a snake
The poison is in abundance and it has watered the nearby hills.
510 Hastily entering his cave, he takes out from there
He brings Zeus' veins to the cunning Cadmus as a gift:
The veins fell to the ground during the Battle of Typhoean.
[Character of Cadmus' music]
The deceitful shepherd accepted the immortal gift and, feeling
Carefully lived, as if getting along for the future lyre
515 He hastily hid the strings, placing them in a crevice of rocks,
To save it as a weapon for Zeus the giant killer;
Extracting a careful sound from the lips with a barely noticeable breath,
Quietly squeezing the reed that hides the echoes,
Cadmus began to play a lovely song. Tifoey, about deception
520 Without guessing, I opened my ears and listened to the harmony.
For the charm of the Giant, the fake shepherd sings
As if expelling immortals, playing on a cunning pipe;
Only in reality he sings about Zeus’s upcoming victory,
About Typhoeus's mortal end - in the face of Typhoeus.
525 He arouses passion in him: so the young man
tender glows,
Excited by the sweet sting of love,
By young girl,
Enchanted by the snow-white oval of a blooming face,
With his eyes he yearns luxurious hair unruly strands
Looks at the hands with their pink skin, ready to stare
530 On the pinkish nipple her rim, compressed with a bandage,
Looking insatiably at her naked neck
In fascination with one form, and then with another,
And he can’t tear himself away from the girl. So to Cadmus's song
The Giant betrayed Tifoya's completely deceived heart.
b) Nonn. II 1-631
[The flute of Cadmus and the abduction by Zeus of his Peruns from Typhon]
The imaginary shepherd, Agenor's son Cadmus, remained standing
There, near the dense forest, a pipe with a piercing sound
Bringing it closer to your lips; and at the same time Kronion
Zeus, unnoticed by anyone, quietly crawled into a secret cave,
5 I took my usual perun and armed myself with it again.
Immediately the cloud of Cadmus quietly covered the rocks,
So that, having learned this cunning deception and thinking about the thief,
Secretly carried away Perun, Tifoya the shepherd by mistake
Didn't kill it. And the Giant, filled with
sweet desire,
10 I only wanted to listen to the rhythm of this song that enchants the heart,
Like a sailor, hearing the song of the wicked Siren,
He is approaching death himself, prematurely and arbitrarily:
Enchanted by the songs, he stops surfing the wave,
The clear moisture cannot be foamed by a motionless oar;
While basking, I forgot about the steering wheel and does not see the constellations of the current -
Neither the seven-path Pleiades, nor the Ursa of a smooth circle.
Likewise, he, shocked by the breath of the destructive song,
I greedily drank in this sting of the game that foreshadowed death.
20 But the live pipe of the shepherd musician fell silent,
Hidden by a dark bank of clouds, and the harmony fell silent.
Here Tifoey, again sensing the passion to fight in the skies,
He rushed into the very depths of the cave where the lightning was,
In search of menacing thunder, the weapon of victory - Perun,
25 For a frenzied struggle; explores everywhere step by step,
Eagerly searching for where is the brilliance of the destructive Zeus
In vain: the cave is empty. And, Kronid’s insidious plan,
Cadmus realized the cunning plan too late,
Tifoei quickly took off, throwing rocks along the way.
[Typhon and nature]
30 The trace remained oblique from a leg with a serpentine foot,
And as he walked, he spat from his mouth, which spewed spears.
From the very top of the Giant, where the hair was echidna,
The poison poured into the streams, and the gorge boiled with foam;
In this movement are the very bowels of the Cilician land,
35 Solid in their soil, they were shaken to the depths of their foundations
Under the serpent's feet; from the all-filling noise
The tops of the brands trembled in the empty space and from
The banks of the nearby rivers of Pamphylia trembled as if in a dance;
The rumble was muffled in the crevices of the soil, and the steep
40 All shook, all the depths shook, the sands of the heights
They crawled loosely under the impact of footsteps shaking the ground.
[Typhon and animals]
Death threatened the herds and animals: after all, in the person of Typhoeus
A predatory bear was tearing apart another bear with its jaws;
The head of the red, shaggy lion was devouring
45 Lions were the joints of others, and were similar in appearance
It is his and theirs to fall; and the viper's snake throat
The cold back of the navigator snake swallowed the dragon;
Air birds flying in pure ether, nearby
They were overtaken by the beak; but most of all he devoured
50 Closely flying eagles, for the bird of Zeus is known.
He also ate the farmer's bull, not sparing him, even though he seemed
He is bleeding all over from the yoke due to abrasions on his neck.
[Typhon and Naiads]
Having been thoroughly satiated, he drinks all the moisture from the river,
There, driving out the troops of Naiads living in the grottoes;
55 How does a barefoot nymph, accustomed to moisture, stop?
With obvious difficulty, moving along the bottom along the flow of the stream,
Where there is a dry roll, with tangled feet, -
The virgin, who is all in trembling 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 obvious,
The old shepherd, having dropped his pipe, runs away from fear
into the distance; seeing in front of him numerous piles of palms,
The goatherd leaves his weak flute to the wind.
The plowman, always patient, does not sow in the field,
65 Sprinkling grain on even beds of earth,
The furrows are not cut by iron, which deeply blasts the soil,
That everything is already under the blow of the movements of Tifoey’s hands,
But he unharnesses the oxen; and already under the arrows of the Giant
Many voids were exposed in the arable land covered with cracks.
[Chaos in nature and the lamentation of the gods]
70 The moist veins completely dissolved, and an abyss yawned;
In the very bottoms of the valleys all the sources were filled with springs,
Pouring underground water right up to the tops of the earth;
Rocks were collapsing around the gorges of streams in the fog
And they fell into the seas, exuding moisture as they fell;
75 Lightning that flew out from under the ground, like a hammer
Own a number of islands of newborns were rooted.
A row of standing trees has moved far from the field,
The premature fruit has already fallen to the ground,
just blossomed;
The garden has already dried up, the pink meadow has already turned to dust.
80 And Zephyr moved only the dry leaves of the fallen
Down the cypress trees; Phoebus already composes funeral songs,
Meeting the broken hyacinths with pitiful crying, -
A mourning hymn with music, but the lament is especially heavy
It is about a chopped laurel near the Amykleian peak;
85 The distressed pan straightens a crooked pine tree;
And, remembering Moria, 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 lie before a cup of dried roses;
Deo cries that her ear, still unripe, died,
That he will no longer see the rejoicings of the fruit harvest;
The Nymphs of the forests complain about the shady annual trees.
[Typhon and the Hamadryads]
Here from the split laurel, the beautifully sprouted tree,
95 The same-age Hamadryad, losing its cover, jumped off;
Another maiden, running from the pine tree with her light foot,
So he says, approaching the foreigner, the neighboring nymph:
“Hamadryad from the laurel, who did not know her husband, come on
Let's run together - you will see Phoebe, and I will know Pan.
100 Be gone, woodcutters! Trees, goodbye! Sad shoots
Don't cut poor Daphne; and have mercy, O builder,
Lay cargo ships from fragrant pine trunks,
So that they do not touch the sound of the waves of sea Aphrodite.
Really, tree chopper, leave it to me
last joy:
105 Ruin with an axe, instead of a laurel, attach me and my nipple
On the immaculate weapon of unmarried Athena,
So that I die before my husband and maiden go down to Hades,
Without knowing everything about Eros, like Pine or Laurel.”
So to speak, it creates a blanket as if from leaves,
ON Modestly hiding the nipples on the breasts with a green girdle.
Pressing hip to hip tightly,
completely shrinking
Another nymph, looking at her, answers sadly:
“I”, like her, tremble because of virginity: after all, I myself too
I was born with laurel - and I will be overtaken, like Daphne.
115 How to escape? Shall I climb the cliff? But the high hills
Thrown onto Olympus, they turn to ashes from lightning;
I tremble at the nasty gentleman: he will pursue,
Like Pityus and Syringa, he will now overtake me too
In my flight through the mountains, I will perish like the second Echo.
120 No, I will not go to the heights, and I will not live on the heights,
Hiding in the mountain trees where Artemis hunts,
Let her be a virgin and a friend; after all Kronion
managed to achieve
Callista's box when he turned around as Artemis.
I’ll throw myself into the sea wave: what’s marriage to me?
And yet, at sea
125 Poseidon, unstoppable before his wives, was catching up with Asteria.
If only I had two light wings to go high,
Fly along the path with the airy wind and soar into the skies!
But the road of the birds is empty: Typhoea is already
Arms that are too long even grab the clouds.
130 If he oppresses with violence
marriage, - I turn around,
I’ll join the flock of birds and fly as Philomela’s nightingale,
At least I’ll be a swallow, because the marshmallows love spring,
What heralds dew for flowers, heralds roses;
With its singing the bird babbles volubly under the roof,
135 In a dance, the birds hover and flutter around the huts.
Procne, who suffered bitterly, you cry for your lost son
In a mournful song, and I will cry for the wedding bed.
Swallow, Zeus, don’t make me into a swallow, so that it doesn’t overtake me.
The faster Tereus, angry, is similar to Typhoeus.
140 The air, the mountains, and the sea are closed - I’ll probably hide
Into the very depths of the earth. But the Giant is on viper's heels
He will release the arrow-bearing snakes hiding in it underground.
If only I were a native key and, like Comaife,
Mix new waters with the fatherly source of Kidna!
145 But I don’t want to, as I said: let the mouths not merge
Passionately loved the girl - and my immaculate moisture.
Wherever you run, you will end up with Typhoeus: from our breed
You will have to give birth to a son of many kinds, like a parent.
If I were a friend in the tree, at least in the oak
having moved from the oak tree,
150 I would keep the name of a decent child; no, Daphne
The son will not even listen to the criminal name of Mirra.
Gods, I pray, through the stream of sighing Eridanus
Let me be Heliad: my eyes will drip thickly
Petrified amber, and the crown full of sadness,
155 I too will reach out to the leaves of the neighboring poplar.
Intertwined, moaning about virginity in abundant tears, -
I am a product of the forests, and I am ashamed to be a plant for others.
I will be a stone, like Niobe, so that our sobs
160 Another traveler felt sorry when he saw the stone statue;
But this image is tongue-tied. Give me mercy, Latona;
No, perish this name, you gave birth against the gods.”
[The night and morning before the death of Typhon]
That's what she said. Meanwhile, Phaeton walked along the arc of heaven,
To the west, driving the horses; silent Night, appearing
165 From under the Earth, covering it like a cone of air,
And dresses the heavens with a cloak of brilliant constellations,
All decorating the Ether; and along the cloudless Nile,
Immortal gods walk; from the top of the hilly Taurus
Zeus awaits Kronid for the light of Dawn, the awakening of the carrier.
170 It was night. On Olympus there were rows of guards,
Around seven zones, and her roll call is nightly
It was like one of high towers; rumbling constellations
Multilinguals rushed far; from their axes the sound of an echo,
The crown is reflected, Selena received the last one;
175 The mountains are like guards of the air, running in a row with Phaeton,
They fenced the heavenly crown with a thick veil
From the clouds; at the gates of Atlanta, inaccessible to invasion,
The stars put a bolt and locked it tightly with keys,
So that when the gods leave, an ambush does not penetrate the sky;
180 Instead of the sound of a pipe and the singing of an ordinary flute
The winds flew on their wings all night, whistling their songs.
From above, the aged Boot, companion of the Arcadian Ursa,
Together with the airy Dragon, looking with a vigilant 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, ah, leaving the regions of the south for Sagittarius to observe,
Kefei's gaze ran around the rain gates of Boreas.
There were lights everywhere, and blazing flames of constellations,
Like the night rays of the always vigilant Selena,
190 It glowed like in war, and with twisted tops
In a jump one after another from the top of the aerial Olympus
Shooting stars traced the air - a signal flame
From Kronion's hands; and, with her own throw, she will be knocked over,
In frequent thrashing, Perun flew out of the split cloud;
195 Under its variable impulse in an unstable brilliance
The flame disappears suddenly and appears again;
The weaves curl like a bunch of grapes
In the curls of fire: the light from the rough comet is shaky.
Strange stars, strangers, shine like great rafters,
200 Near longitudinal signal lights
stretching out in the darkness,
Like Zeus' companions; in the rays of Phaeton opposite,
As if shining from a downpour, in a circular arc Iris
Bends upward, creating multi-colored consonant stripes,
In alternation green thickens and after pink white.
[Nike's story about the gods and her calling on Zeus to fight Typhon]
205 Zeus was still lonely when she came to him for consolation
Nika, cutting with a wing high air currents,
Having accepted the image of Latona and strengthened his father with courage;
“Zeus, O lord, be for your children
leader; isn't it
210 Is it conceivable for Typhoeus to mix with Athena in a bad marriage?
Will she be a mother who did not know her mother? Better
Put lightning into action, light weapon of Olympus,
Better drive away the clouds, O Lord who sends downpours:
After all, the foundations of the motionless world are at hand
215 They have already wavered; conjugated four elements
Dissolved apart; the goddess Deo refused the field,
Hebe left the cup, Apec does not take up the spear,
Hermes leaves the rod, Apollo abandons his lyre
And, inspired, he flies, throwing winged arrows.
220 Having assumed the form of a swan, Aphrodite, who officiates marriages,
The shackled world was struck by infertility and dissolved
Insoluble bonds of unity; bringing brides
Indomitable Eros, taming everyone and brave,
In fear he throws away his fruitful bow;
from the usual Lemn
225 Your fiery son Hephaestus, limping on disobedient legs,
Runs quietly and sluggishly. Worthy of great surprise, -
But I feel very sorry for Hera, who is so angry with me.
Or will your father return again to the luminaries of the round dance?
Oh, if only it were not so! Although I am called Titanide,
230 But I don’t want to watch the Titans take over Olympus
Instead of you and your own children. Better than the imperious Perun
Fight up. Keeping Artemis without blemish; bride
I am still kept as a virgin, am I for a forced marriage?
Will she who knows how to give birth give birth herself? And to me?
235 Will you stretch out your arms? And what kind of Ilithyia am I when I
Will I, Ilithyia, give birth together with Artemis?”
[Image of Typhon. Dreams of victory]
So she spoke, and on the darkening wings of Hypnos
Sleep covered everything wildlife. However, Kronion
I was alone without any sleep. Typhoey, spread out far
240 Limp limbs, resting burdened on the bed,
Mother Gaia is a burden; towards the open womb
Secret beds were hollowed out in the depths of the abysses,
Digging the soil with their snouts, the echidnas of Typhoeus's hair.
The sun has risen; Typhoeus is multidimensional from all his throats,
245 Roaring together, thundered, calling the great Zeus,
Up to the borders of the Ocean, stable in return,
There are four regions of the world flowing around, dividing them
And he girded the whole earth with a ring, like a crown;
250 The cry of Typhoeus, changing according to a series of dissimilar sounds,
It hummed in a variety of ways and woke up multiple echoes:
Ever increasing in strength, different shades in appearance,
It was heard both by the howling of wolves and the roar of a lion,
The wheezing of boars, the mooing of bulls and the hissing of dragons,
255 With the bold yawn of a leopard and the roar from the mouth of a bear,
The furious grumbling of dogs. And the Giant is half human
“My hands, throw the house of Zeus, move all the roots
Peace, where the kingdom of the blessed is, break the steep bolts
260 There - on Olympus of the gods; let the air pillar Atlanta
He falls to the ground and he himself runs, shocked by the fall;
Let the starry vault break away from Olympus,
Without worrying, run in a spiral; no, I won't allow it
So that the son of the Earth bends his overly loaded shoulders
265 Under the inevitable movement of the Ether back and forth:
Let him fight with the blessed, leaving it to the gods -
how he wants -
Their boundless burden; let him destroy the cliffs,
Throws wild arrows at the sky carrying the stars,
Previously worn by him; let them flee from heaven under attack
270 The fearful Rocks, the Mountains, the powerless slaves of the Sun;
Let everything be reversed: mix with earth
Air and moisture with fire, and the depths of the sea with Olympus.
I will also stop the violence of slaves - these four winds:
I will slash Borey, and I will press and strike Nota
275 Evra, I’ll kill Zephyr, and I’ll confuse day with night
Stormy. My relative is the Ocean that swallows the sources
Many, highly elevated waters will move towards Olympus;
Five parallel circles exceeding the movement of moisture,
He will flood all the constellations, drown the Ursa's thirst
280 Unquenchable, lying under the wheel of the Chariot.
Moo louder, my bulls, shaking an arc in the sky
All equinoctial circles, and strike with steep horns
To the sacrifice of a cuckolded light Taurus like you.
Let Selena’s bulls go astray from their wet roads,
285 In fear of the roar of my bull heads, buzzing loudly.
Let my huge bear's throat, my formidable jaw
Typhoeus drives the Ursa with his saliva there on Olympus;
Let my lion attack the air lion with force
Let him move him far from the paths of the zodiac;
290 Let the Dragon of the Chariot tremble from my dragons,
Armed with lights barely. These furious waves
Seas, earthly hills, steep island capes
They were created for me as swords, and the mountains will serve as shields for me;
Rocks are my reliable armor, and cliffs will be spears,
295 The rivers will extinguish the peruns that are unsuitable for business.
I will keep Iapetus in chains - to bind Poseidon;
And on the Caucasian peak there is a feathered bird
Better than an eagle to bloody Hephaestus by devouring him
A liver growing again: like that one, it suffers for the fire
300 Such an ulcer is Prometheus with his self-growing liver.
I will throw a vessel into a copper one, like the offspring of Iphimedea,
Seeing people like me, the prudent son of Maya,
The unbreakable bonds of the braider; let someone say:
Having untied the net of Ares, Hermes himself became entangled in the net.
305 Let him now untie the unassailable bonds of girlhood,
Having become Orion's forced wife, Artemis herself;
Let Titius lay out Latona's blanket in the old fashioned way,
Lured into forced marriage; murderer of Ares,
What plunders the shields it breaks, and the ruler
Taking Pallas as prey, I will give Ephialtes in marriage
Even though I’m late in marriage: it will be interesting for me to see,
What kind of day laborer is Apec and how does Athena suffer during childbirth?
Taking with a tense shoulder the entire weight of the Atlanta sky,
315 In the change of movement of the stars, Kronion will carry him on end;
He will hear the wedding of my hymen, captured by the mystery
Jealousy, how I will take him to Hera's marriage bed.
I will have plenty of torches: the flash of lightning
There will be a brand burning in my palaces; instead of pine trees
320 Phaeton himself, having attached the fire of his illumination,
Slavishly he will shower upon Typhoeus the bridegroom's radiance;
And, trembling like sparks at a wedding, toppling from Olympus,
The stars will be the lamp of my love
pleasures -
Stars, lamps of the nights; with Aphrodite, who binds marriages,
325 Selena, my wife, will serve to make my bed, serving
Endymion; when will you need to take a bath?
I will swim in the waters of the star-bearing river Eridanus.
The mountains going around, covering Zeus's bed,
Now build an erotic bedroom for Typhoeus;
330 Hebe, Latona, Athena, Pathian, Charis, Artemis -
Sisters, bring water from the Ocean to the marriage of Typhoeus.
Serving as a wedding plectrum at the table of my feast,
Let Apollo sing of Typhoeus, and not of Zeus.
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 Krona back to light from the underground abyss,
The life-swallower, I, as my own martial artist,
I will free you from violent bonds; returned Titans
340 I will give again to the air, the offspring of Gaia - the Cyclops -
I will bring you to heaven to live, we will forge weapons from fire
New: I will need a lot of heavenly Peruns,
To fight with two hundred hands, and not just a pair of them,
Like Zeus Kronid in everything; I'll make lightning
345 Better than the previous ones, others, newer, stronger
Ignited by fire; I'll build another one at the top
The sky, the eighth in a row, is both wider and higher than all the others;
I will give him clearer stars, since he cannot
Completely cover Typhoeus with the nearest top of the sky.
350 Instead of the entire generation of male and female,
What came from Kronid, I will raise a new tribe -
There are many many-necked gods; and hosts of barren constellations
I will not leave you bored without marriage, but I will give away women
All for husbands, so that she may give birth to many slaves for me
355 The winged virgin, giving her bed to Boot.”
[Start of the last battle]
So speaking, he shouted, and Kronid smiled, listening.
The battle broke out on both sides: Typhoea Eris
Nick leads and encourages Zeus into battle.
The competition is not for the sake of a herd of bulls or for the sake of sheep.
360 It was not a feud for a beautiful nymph-bride
Or a dump for small town, - the struggle arose
For owning the sky itself: on Nika's lap
The scepter of Zeus lay and the throne as a reward for the battle.
Zeus, striking with thunder from the driven clouds, called
365 In the sky a lowing roar sounded like Enyo's song,
And, surrounding his chest with clouds twisted in a spiral,
Created protection for himself from Giant Arrows. Tifoei
He did not remain silent: his bull heads mooed,
Like original trumpets, Olympus was deafened by its roar;
370 The dragons' webs whistled like the flutes of Ares.
Tifoya built a series of his high joints,
Piling cliff upon cliff until he raised it
Their dense steepness gradually and indestructibly,
From the very foundations, laying rock upon rock in a row;
375 It looked like an army in arms: the gorge was close
He leaned on the gorge, the hills on the hills, the isthmus
On the isthmus and high ledge on the folded ledge;
Their rocky helmets served as a crown for Typhoeus,
The highest head covering the Giant heads.
380 The Giant had at least one body in battle, only in appearance
There were many peaks, but the joints were countless, -
The arms and jaws of lions with their sharpened points,
Hair in the form of echidnas rising to the constellations.
Entire trees bent in the hands of Typhoeus, against
385 Zeus Kronid throwing them, but beautiful foliage
The offspring of these Earths with their burdened jerk
Zeus involuntarily destroyed with just a single spark of Perun.
Many elms died, pine trees of the same age,
Many huge plane trees and white poplars, broken
390 The lightning of Zeus, and many cracks burst in the soil.
The environment of the world was shaking on all four sides;
Together the four winds entered the battle of Kronion,
Waves of dust rose up and clung to the darkening air;
The sea lashed the land: the scourged Sicelia
395 Everything wavered, and the shore of Pelora was filled with noise,
Just like the veins on Etna; roared in the rocks of Lilybaeum -
Messengers of future days; the coastline of Pakhina rumbled
A current coming from the west; in the north the nymph Athos
Loudly in the wooded Thracian gorge he screams and calls out;
400 The Macedonian forest hums and the foothills of the Pierian veins.
The roots of the East shake, tremble in Assyrian Lebanon
Fragrant trees with curly leaves in the groves.
At the same time, as Zeus raged continuously with Perun,
Many arrows from the hands of Typhoeus flew towards:
405 Those who sought to get into Selene’s chariot, only their legs
Fickle bulls were scratched unharmed;
Those who circled with a piercing whistle
by air, winds,
Blows came from different directions and instantly sprayed;
Many, having strayed from the straight path under the distant Perun
410 Zeus, found themselves under the cheerful hand of Poseidon,
Where the trident, exploding the earth, gave them no mercy;
Walking along the Kronov Sea, arrows fell on the water
Elder Nereus collected weapons for Zeus.
The terrible two sons of Enialius, Phobus and Deim,
415 Zeus took his grandchildren as helpers and shield-bearers,
Walking together in the Ether: he put Phob to the lightning,
He established Deima at the Perun of the carrying thunder -
Fear of inflicting Typhoeus. And Nika raised her shield,
Stretching it in front of Zeus; Enyo screamed
420 Apec raised the roar; and through the air, a raging storm,
The pompous Zeus rushes, holding the aegis, seated
On the winged chariot of Time, drawn by four:
United by the wind the horses of Kronion were;
Armed himself with lightning, where with thunder,
425 There it attacks with a thunderstorm, and here it pours down with a downpour,
Along with the arrows of rain, slashing like stones,
The hail strengthened the ridge; columns of continuous moisture
Collapse with a sharp arrow over the Giant heads,
And Typhoeus’s palms are cut like knives,
430 These arrows of hail, which became a shower in the air.
One falls into the dust from the palms, without grasping the top,
But he continues to fight, struck by a wound from the hail
Snowy, even in the fall: flying to the ground, in a frenzy
The hand curls in leaps and bounds and trembles, opening itself,
435 As if wanting to rush towards the Olympic circle.
Here is the leader of the gods, throwing a fiery arrow
From above, military detachments are driving towards the right wing -
Fight at the top; and the enormous Giant rises to battle
Potholes full of water, and tied in tight knots
440 Your fingers in an original binding, one after another,
Makes a gutter out of greedy palms and a full handful
He collects cold mountain water from rivers with his hands.
They are deepened and driven by the streams like a broken stream
Right on Zeus's lightning bolt; drenched in the stream of gorges,
445 An air torch flickers through the water like a gusty spark
And he presses on the water, drying it up with fire, -
The moist parts of nature are inferior to the nature of fire.
The impudent Giant wished to extinguish the heavenly flame:
The fool did not know that the luminous flame of Perun and lightning
450 Originates from clouds that generate showers.
Again he, grabbing a cave from the stream with right angles,
Zeus wants to hit the invulnerable chest with iron,
A high tower stretches towards him; but only the edges of the lips
Zeus breathed softly, and the breath was light,
455 From the very heights of the steepness, the rocks began to spin and overturn.
Having forcibly torn out one ridge from the island, again
Tifoey, terrible for everyone, enters the thundering battle,
Throwing a comb into the face of the still indestructible Zeus.
Avoid the marble edge that is directed against
460 Coolly turning away his face; Tifoey got a hot one
Lightning current, changing its path along a curve, and immediately
The white rock on top turned black in the agonizing smoke.
The Giant is throwing for the third time. But Kronid is into it
thrown stone,
Moving the brush, he carefully grabbed it in the middle of the palm
465 And, like a galloping ball rattling in an endless hand,
Threw it back at Tifoeus - turning over around itself
Many times in a whirlwind of air, in the opposite direction
returning,
The stone, as if by its own force, strikes its arrow.
The fight the fourth time was higher. The cliff that was captured
470 The whole thing split in half at the very edge of the aegis.
He also threw Tifoya, but the rock that seemed strong
Again the striking Perun was burned and glowed.
The mountains could not contain this moisture from the clouds, under attack
Hills and cliffs were destroyed by clouds full of water.
475 In general, Enyo kept a balance between the two of them -
Between Typhoeus and Zeus, and arrows with a strong bend
Rushing in an airy dance, the Peruns of thunder 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 Peruns flying from the sky
He threw arrows crowned with fire through the air.
[Nonna's meteorological speculation]
Now, having left 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 pregnant clouds choked with heat; and with noise amid the smoke
So tormented clouds, saturated with fiery steam,
A burning flame that could not come out was burning inside
In search of middle paths, as in the heights
penetrate the radiance
It is not given to the Fiery; humid air soaked in rain
490 Drops, lightning will delay the leaps, for the moisture above
Makes the clouds dense; When is the dry open?
The field is below, then the fire penetrates through it in leaps.
Just like the stone that lies near the stone gives birth to
Shine and original fire pierces their fossil,
495 If a fire-born male bumps into a stone, -
Likewise, heavenly fire ignites due to pressure
A pair of earth and clouds; that fire that was born from smoke
Thin soil will help create air currents;
The one who is from the waters of the vapors of the earth and wanders unsteadily,
500 He will be directly drunk by the scorching rays of the sun
And, moistened, it will be drawn into the Ether along a burning road;
There it will swell completely, giving rise to a shell of clouds
And, shaking the entire fat volume from the finest steam,
A soft cloud will suddenly dissolve into a stream of rain,
505 Returning again to its original moist nature.
This is how a type of thundercloud is formed and
Lightning together and their sample thunderous peruns.
[End of Typhon]
Zeus, the father, fought, sending down on the enemy
Currents of familiar lights reflecting the lions of the spearman,
510 A heavenly whirlwind sweeps away a whole series of multi-formed roaring
Mouths of immeasurable beasts; already the shine of his arrows
flaming
Burned the endless hands of the Giant, turning them into dust
Countless shoulders, whirling flocks of dragons;
The needles of Ether burned an endless mass of heads.
515 Now the rotation of the comet has scattered the hair of Typhoeus,
Throwing his shaggy fire with an opposite spark -
All the heads began to shine, the hair of the Giant caught fire;
Following the heavenly spark onto the curls hissing like snakes
The seal of silence fell, and the snakes, dried up by the comet,
520 Droplets of poison froze at the very gaping jaws.
The Giant fought, and his vision was covered with ashes
Smokey smoke; on his faces, hardened with snow,
The cheeks were completely white from the cold winter streams.
I was also tormented by the attack of four flying winds:
525 As he turns his gaze carelessly to the east -
Evra will immediately receive a hot battle from his loved one;
If he looks at the winds of the Arcadian Ursa Slope -
Frost will cover it from the cold stormy whirlwind;
Only to avoid the breath of winter, the snowy Boreas -
530 He will be struck by an arrow, moistened and at the same time hot;
If he looks to the west, towards the threatening Eos,
He will tremble from the storms that have flown from Enyo's sunset,
Echoes of hearing the spring lashes from the blows of Zephyr,
Also Noth, who is hot with his breath, directing the course of the chariot
535 In the air near the noon of Capricorn,
The heat of Typhoeus is carried by the fiery breath of heat.
Zeus the raincoat has just poured down torrents of rain again,
How the entire body of the Giant was washed by a calm stream;
His limbs were burning, and he was breathing heavily, humbled by Perun.
540 With the strong arrows of hail and blizzard that struck my son,
Typhoeus's mother was also wounded - dried soil:
Seeing the torment on his body, the doomed Moira
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
Quickly melt the moisture of Zeus, turned into stone,
Shedding a native radiance on Typhoeus in the snow;
She and her son withered away together; and, looking at the mass
His giant burnt hands, surrounded by fires,
550 The cold wind of the storm begs to come to him -
At least for one day, so that this frosty breeze
I thirst to extinguish Typhoeus, saving him from harm.
Zeus has already tipped the scales of the same battle,
Here, tearing her forest cover with her hand, she tightened her
555 Mother Earth: she saw the heads smoking
At Typhoeus; all his faces have already dried up completely,
And the knees resolved. And, foretelling victory,
Zeus's trumpet roared like thunder everywhere.
Collapsed, staggering from the fiery arrows falling from the sky,
560 Supergiant Typhoei, receiving a non-iron wound
In battle, and now, having dropped their members, on mother Gaia
He rested quietly, spreading the serpentine joints in the dust.
And breathing fire.
[Zeus' triumphant sarcasm]
And Kronid teased, smiling,
The following speech pours out from the lips of those amused by God:
565 “The old man Kronos found a good assistant, it can be seen:
Only the great son the Earth bore to Iapeth, -
And he is already taking revenge on Tifoya for the Titans; and when I look,
Soon Kronid's Peruns became completely powerless.
Why are you hesitating to occupy the inaccessible Ether?
scepter
570 Fictional? The Olympus meeting is ready for you:
Receive the scepter of Zeus and the cloak, Typhoeus the God-fighter;
Call Astraeus to enter the sky, and if you want,
Let Eurynoma, Ophion and with them return to the Ether
Let Kronos be your companion; would come with you
on the road
575 With the motley backs of the stars flowing in the heights, and the cunning
Our Prometheus, having escaped his shackles and taken as his guide,
So as not to stray from the heavenly paths, my daring bird,
I greedily devour his liver, which grows again.
What else do you want to see? Probably so that after the battle
580 Have Zeus and Ennosigeus served at your seats?
Zeus, completely weakened, is no longer the scepter of Olympus,
It is deprived of thunder and clouds, its lightning is no longer sacred
Light, his peruns are no longer a familiar weapon, -
Torches only when Tifoei comes into the bedroom
585 His captive wife, living in the mansion of Hera,
The bed of which the envious Zeus devours with his eyes.
Paired with him is Ennosigei, cut off from the sea, now
Instead of the lord of the seas - Typhoeus, a table servant:
Instead of a trident, in his withered hand he carries 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 told them about your power and heavenly radiance.
Just leave Hephaestus to work on his usual Lemnos,
So that he can make it there for your newlywed bride
595 Variegated necklace beads - colored, with shiny finish,
Or a bright light play on the soles of sandals,
What would delight your wife? or would make a new one,
Shining gold throne on Olympus, so that it’s fun
To your golden-throned Hera, possessing such a throne.
600 If you want to install the Cyclopes from the earth on Olympus,
New sparks will be forged for your excellent Peruns.
Cunning Eros, who deceived your heart with the hope of victory^
He will be connected with the golden Aphrodite with a golden chain;
With a copper chain bind Ares, the lord of iron.
605 However, there are no lightnings, and Enyo remains in vain...
How can you not avoid empty blows and harmless fires?
How is it, hearing with my own ears, which have no number,
Little thunder, are you already afraid at the echo of the rain?
Who made you so powerless? And where are your arrows?
610 Where are your heads of dogs? Where are the lion's mouths open?
The internal roar of your throats, wide and terribly loud?
Where are the long-shaded needles of your dragon's mane?
And why don’t the snake-like rings hiss in your hair?
Where is the mooing of the bull's muzzles? Where are your hands,
615 Instead of spears, the highest mountains spewed towards us?
Why aren’t you already scourging the circular arcs of the constellations?
Aren't the protruding teeth of boars already white?
Drops of foamy saliva on their soaked chin?
Where are the terrible mouths - the grins of the possessed bears?
620 Scion of the Earth, yield to the celestials! I'm stronger
With this single hand, than you are with two hundred of them nearby.
Now let Sicelia, with three heads and a circle
Steeply high hills will cover the whole of Typhoeus,
Pathetic in this guise of hundreds of dusty heads.
625 Arrogant in mind, in hope that has achieved nothing
You wanted to jump to the very top of Olympus;
I, unfortunate one, will prepare an empty tomb for you,
And on your trampled grave, O wicked man, 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.”
So he reviled the barely breathing corpse of his earthly son.
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