The Stories of Pisces, Leo and Orion — Greek Mythology #4
The story of Typhon and how Aphrodite and Cupid ran for their lives. The story of Hercules and the lion of Namaea. The story of Artemis and Orion.
Some of you may have heard of the scary giant named Typhon in Greek mythology. And for those who have not heard at all, let me tell its story in a nutshell. This terrible monster was born after the earth goddess Gaea and Tartarus, the king of the hell, got intimate. At the end of the Titanomachy war, when all the Titan children of Gaea were punished by the god Zeus to suffer in hell, Gaea took revenge on Zeus and gave birth to this terrible giant with a hundred heads, named Typhon. This is the story of the monster Typhon.
One day, while Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, and her son, Cupid, were wandering in the woods together, the giant Typhon suddenly struck. When he saw Cupid and Aphrodite wandering around, he rushes to catch them. On the other hand, Aphrodite and Cupid, unprepared to see the frantic form of the hundred-headed bloodthirsty Typhon, also began to run in panic.
It is rumoured that the mother and son, rushing to save themselves from Typhon, finally came to the very shores of the Aegean Sea! By then Typhon had come very close to them. So…
