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"Typhon ". She also writes that the built
Inundations were called Typhonian or Taphos. In art Typhon is
tl&'picted in the form of an ass, a crocodile, or a fish. Gerald Massey, who
IIIVI'nted the term "Typhonian Tradition", writes in his Lectures that this
Il'IIdition derived from the god the with the crocodile's head,
V"I closely associated with the According to the name
Ht'vl'kh signified the sevenfold: the seven heads of the Dragon who
IN of the seven and fis himself also an , as we are told in Revelation".
I h· also describes the
"Ill Egypt the Great Bear was the constellation of
�1'Ill'trix, called the Mother of the Revolutions; and the
name:
W,IS to her son Sevekh- Kronus, or Saturn, called
dragon or with seven heads was female at
or Kepha, the old
with seven heads
of Life. That
IYPI' was continued as male in her son the Sevenfold �,,,, ,,o'n. in Ea the
St'venfold, in Num-Ra, in the Seven-headed Iao-Chnubis, and others ... In
till' book of Enoch these two constellations are identified as Leviathan and
III·hemoth", or the and Great Bear, and are
the primal pair that was first created in the
The concept of the female principle out of which the whole
IIniverse and which underlies the of Nature is encountered
worldwide. The most vivid example is in the ancient
Ilccounts. The Babylonian Dragon-Goddess, corresponds to the
(;reat Bear and the primal of
Nature. According to Massey, she is the same as the Typhon:
"The Old of Chaos and the is the same whether called Tiamat,
Tavthe, or By Typhon I mean the beast that the first Great Mother,
hippopotamus in front and crocodile behind, who is the of Egypt.
I fer name of or Tept is the original of Typhon. Tiamat =
Ihat of which is the Tepht. This
source, the void, hole of the snake, of the the outrance or
uterus of birth as place which preceded personification. Another name for the
is Abzu, the earlier form of which is the Khepsh in the north - that is, the
Pool of the hippopotamus or Typhon=Dragon."
The rise of civilization brought a major change in the attitude towards
which in the decline the primeval lunar current and the
growth of the solar cult of the masculine god. The cult of the 'Uu' .... "''''C>C>
became a dangerous relic of old a threat to new, patriarchal
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