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Typhon vs Set

These two are identified with one another in the record, which is not the same as being the same figure. The Greeks identified Set with Typhon outright, and the equation stuck.

Deity · Greek · c. 700 BCE

Typhon

also called Typhoeus, Τυφῶν

The hundred-headed monster who nearly unseats Zeus, identified by the Greeks with Set and echoed in Revelation's dragon.

Alignment
Disputed
Rank
Titan of Storms
First attested
The Iliad · c. 750 BCE
Named there as
Typhoeus
Texts naming it
3
Powers attributed
2
85attestedEgyptianGreek

Deity · Egyptian · c. 3000 BCE

Set

also called Seth, Sutekh, Typhon (Greek identification), Setesh, Setekh, Suty

Murderer of Osiris and defender of the sun-barque — a god who was worshipped as a royal patron for two millennia before being recast as the enemy.

Alignment
Disputed
Rank
God of Storms and Disorder
First attested
The Pyramid Texts · c. 2350–2100 BCE
Named there as
Seth
Texts naming it
3
Powers attributed
4
85attestedEgyptianGreek

Where do they actually overlap?

Texts naming both

None. The two never appear in the same text in this corpus, which is worth knowing before accepting any confident claim that they are one figure.

Powers credited to both

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Common questions

Are Typhon and Set the same figure?

These two are identified with one another in the record, which is not the same as being the same figure. The Greeks identified Set with Typhon outright, and the equation stuck. ColossiansOne records the link rather than asserting the identity: where texts disagree about whether two names denote one figure, the disagreement is what gets shown.

Which is older, Typhon or Set?

Set is the older name: first attested around c. 3000 BCE, against c. 700 BCE for Typhon. Where the two dates are far apart, that gap is the whole reason the pair is worth comparing.

Do any texts name both Typhon and Set?

No text in this corpus names both. That is not proof they were considered the same figure, but it is why the identification has to be traced through the scholarship rather than read off a page.
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