Typhon, Typhoon, Typhon or Typhus, is a giant of mythology to whom the Greeks attributed the paternity of fierce and violent winds. He is the son of Gaia and Tartarus.
In syncretism with the Egyptian myth of Osiris, Typhon was identified with the giant Set, responsible for the drought of the Nile, who, because of his envy, will kill him. Set will be avenged later by his son Horus.
Along with his wife Echidna, Typhon was the father of several of the monsters that populate the adventures of heroes and gods, such as: the Lion of Nemea, fought by Hercules; the Lerna Hydra or the Sphinx, in fusion with nilotic myths; of the dogs Ortros and Cerberus.
Gaia the Earth, to avenge the defeat of her children in Titanomachy, joined Tartarus, generating Typhon, identified as the personification of the earthquake and strong winds. He lived in a cave, the atmosphere of which poisoned with toxic fumes.
It was so big that its head touched the celestial stars and its hands went from East to West. Its open wings could cover the Sun, Dragons came out of its shoulders, 50 from each shoulder. He was so horrendous that everyone rejected him, even his brothers, the Titans. From his mouth he spit fire in chains, and cast incandescent rocks into the sky.