MARDI GRAS COSTUME DESIGN POSTCARD PROTEUS PAGEANT 1882

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MARDI GRAS POSTCARD TYPHON COSTUME DESIGNED BY CHARLES BRITON WATER-COLOR DESIGN FOR PROTEUS PAGEANT, 1882: "ANCIENT EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY"NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA UNUSED MODERN CHROME NON- LINEN POST CARD POSTCARD CARD FROM IMAGE COURTESTY OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS TULANE UNIVERSITY ENTIRE POSTCARD SHOWN, I NEVER CROP AN IMAGE TO MAKE THE POSTCARD APPEAR SHARPER AND BETTER THAN IT ACTUALLY IS -- I CONSIDER THAT PRACTICE TO BE UNETHICAL. Please Note: any pixilation or straight white linesis an anomaly of the scanner and not on the postcard. APPROX. SIZE: 6" X 4" 19 Description UNUSED GENUINE MODERN CHROME POST CARD POSTCARD REPRODUCING 1882 WATER-COLOR COSTUME DESIGN BY CHARLES BRITON FOR PROTEUS PAGEANT, 1882: "ANCIENT EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY" In Greek mythology, Typhon , Typhaon or Typhos is the final son of Gaia, fatd by Tartarus, and is the god of wind. Typhon attempts to replace Zeus as the king of gods and men. Typhon was described as the largest and most grotesque of all creatures that have ever lived, having a hundred serpent heads. He was defeated by Zeus who crushed Mount Etna on him. The inveterate enemy of the Olympian gods is described in detail by Hesiod as a vast grisly monster with a hundred serpent heads "with dark flickering tongues" flashing fire from their eyes and a din of voices and a hundred serpents legs, a feature shared by many primal monsters of Greek myth that extend in serpentine or scaly coils from the waist down. The titanic struggle created earthquakes and tsunamis. Once conquered by Zeus' thunderbolts, Typhon was cast into Tartarus, the common destiny of many such archaic adversaries, or he was confined beneath Mount Aetna, also known as Mount Etna, (Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.19 - 20; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 370), w "his bed scratches and goads the whole length of his back stretched out against it," or in other volcanic regions, w he is the cause of eruptions. Typhon is thus the chthonic figuration of volcanic forces, as Hephaestus (Roman Vulcan) is their "civilized" Olympian manifestation. Amongst his children by Echidna are Cerberus, the serpent-like Lernaean Hydra, the Chimera, the hundred-headed dragon Ladon, the half-woman half-lion Sphinx, the two-headed wolf Orthrus, and the Nemean Lion. Typhon is also the father of hot dangerous storm winds which issue forth from the stormy pit of Tartarus, according to Hesiod. His name is apparently derived from the Greek t?fe?? (typhein), to smoke, hence it is considered to be a possible etymology for the word typhoon, supposedly borrowed by the Persians and Arabs to describe the cyclonic storms of the Indian Ocean. The Greeks also frequently represented him as a storm-daemon, especially in the version w he stole Zeus's thunderbolts and wrecked the earth with storms (cf. Hesiod, Theogony; Nonnus, Dionysiaca). Since Herodotus, Typhon has been identified with the Egyptian Set (interpretatio Graeca) aka SETH . In the Orphic tradition, Typhon leads the Titans when they attack and kill Dionysus, just as Set is responsible for the murder of Osiris. Furthermore, the slaying of Typhon by Zeus bears similarities to the killing of Vritra by Indra (a deity also associated lightning and storms), and possibly the two stories are ultimately derived from a common Indo-European source. Similarities can be found in the battle between Thor and Jormungand from norse myths. In Ancient Egyptian mythology, Set (also spelled Seth, Sutekh or Seteh) is an ancient god, who was originally the god of the desert, storms, and chaos. Because of the developments in the Egyptian language over the 3,000 years that Set was worshipped, by the Greek period, the t in Set was pronounced so indistinguishably from th that the Greeks spelled it as Se? (Seth). In art, Set was mostly depicted as a mysterious and unknown creature, referred to by Egyptologists as the Set animal or Typhonic beast, with a curved snout, square ears, forked tail, and canine body, or sometimes as a human with only the head of the Set animal.... read more

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