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I started reading some books of Kenneth Grant's Typhonian trilogies , to be precise, "Hecate's fountain" is finished, few others are only very partly read due to the dense, complex, weird mixture of ideas which is KG's style. I keep having the feeling that there are sustantial things or knowledge or experiences which can be dug out of that, which is why I continued. To help understanding what the author means, I started reading Henrick Bogdan's "Servants of the Star and the Snake", composed of essays on KG's genealogy of the diverse subjects he mentions and often mixes.
It is in this book, in the appendix of the chapter discussing the entity Lam, first mentioned by Aleister Crowley, that a glossary is proposed on various names such as Ta-Urt, Draco, draconian tradition, Typhon, typhonian tradition ... And there it is written : for KG, Typhon would be a primitive avatar of the Great Mother, with a story of sort of neolithic egyptian civilisation, following the typhonian or draconian tradition, which would have worshiped Typhon as the Great Mother, represented by the Ursa Major constellation, and Sirius would be Set, her son and only male god worshiped at the time. I will not discuss the (as far as I know) non-historical ground of this interpretation.
What I am rather wondering is : where did he get the idea that Typhon would be female, and an archaic Great Goddess? Are there any authors before him or contemporary who had a similar approach (wether occult, 'fancy historians'...)? Is there anything anywhere which would make Typhon something else than the "usual" Typhon who is associated to Seth as a male demonic/chaotic type of divinity or monster? Or is it a total invention from KG, but still, is there a way to know what led him to such a twist?
If anyone has an idea about that, it would be welcome. I feel quite puzzled.
It is in this book, in the appendix of the chapter discussing the entity Lam, first mentioned by Aleister Crowley, that a glossary is proposed on various names such as Ta-Urt, Draco, draconian tradition, Typhon, typhonian tradition ... And there it is written : for KG, Typhon would be a primitive avatar of the Great Mother, with a story of sort of neolithic egyptian civilisation, following the typhonian or draconian tradition, which would have worshiped Typhon as the Great Mother, represented by the Ursa Major constellation, and Sirius would be Set, her son and only male god worshiped at the time. I will not discuss the (as far as I know) non-historical ground of this interpretation.
What I am rather wondering is : where did he get the idea that Typhon would be female, and an archaic Great Goddess? Are there any authors before him or contemporary who had a similar approach (wether occult, 'fancy historians'...)? Is there anything anywhere which would make Typhon something else than the "usual" Typhon who is associated to Seth as a male demonic/chaotic type of divinity or monster? Or is it a total invention from KG, but still, is there a way to know what led him to such a twist?
If anyone has an idea about that, it would be welcome. I feel quite puzzled.