Threat, Inversion and Polarity: Typhoon’s Challenge to Zeus

Abstract

In various Greek and Latin sources, the primordial monstrous deity Typhon challenges Zeus as the highest exponent of the new and rational hierarchical, social and patriarchal order. His defeat is the defeat of a previous elemental system, although it is not extirpated forever, but relegated, hidden, subdued. Typhon, a representative of irrationality, disorder, of the devastating fire, thunderous noise and primal forces, is brought down and defeated, but remains subdued underground. As an exponent of the the fiery primal forces in the formation of the cosmos, he collaborates, like other creatures, in the formation of the universe, so that his influence is not completely overshadowed, but remains latent, with its defiant potential, alluding to a divine and human society in which a contrasting polarity of dynamic character remains present.

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