Typhon symbol of ignorance, united with Echidna “the viper”, the perverted force of evolution, and begot four great monsters: Orthros, Cerberus, the Lernaean Hydra and the Chimera which represent the lie, the guardian of mortality, the desire and the illusion
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Hesiod identifies Echidna as a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, which pinpoints the origin of this deviance at the time of the formation of the animal sense of self, animal ego. But she really only becomes a “perverse” force in man when she is united with Typhon, which is to say when the reflective mind of man is forming.
When the evolutionary force is “right or just”, the myths describe a snake rather than specifically a viper.
According to Apollodorus she is a daughter of Tartarus and as such she is like Typhon an outcome of Nescience. However this account of parentage does not indicate the moment in which the opposing forces come into conflict.
We have already come across the children of this terrible couple which brought about the Fall of Life when we discussed the children of Phorcys and Ceto: the dog Orthros, Cerberus, the Lernaean Hydra and the Chimera. They are shown to be increasingly formidable obstacles as the seeker advances on his path.
In the Questions and Answers from the 9th of January 1957, The Mother explained that the arrest of evolution within a state of union is an accident of evolution: “If Delight had remained Delight, conceived as Delight, and everything had come about in Delight and Union instead of in division, there would never have been any need for the divine Consciousness to plunge into the inconscient as Love.”
Orthros
Orthros Dead at the Feet of Geryon and Heracles. 510–500 BC. Vulci.
It is the two-headed dog of Geryon. The latter is the son of Chrysaor, “the man of the double-edged golden sword” who appeared, like the horse Pegasus, when Perseus severed the head of the Gorgon Medusa. Geryon is therefore a symbol of the wealth of the “true vital” liberated by the victory over fear. This is why “the cattle of his flocks were crimson”: they are representative of the divine powers of life.
Scribes have made corrections in the manuscripts, interchanging the names Orthros and Orthos so that it is now quite difficult to ascertain which name was originally used by each