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56 In addition to the awesome sound, the blinding Hash, and the ex- treme heat, the hurling of the Thunder-Stone also created an im- mense wind storm: Also were the winds brought rumbling, earthquake and duststorm, thunder and lightning. All this did the Thunder-Stone of great Zeus bring about. And when the two contending camps heard and saw what had _ hap- pened, "an horrible uproar of terrible strife arose; mighty deeds were shown; and the battle inclined." The fighting was abating; for the gods had the upper hand over the Titans. "Insatiated for war." the three Cyclopes set upon the Titans, overpowering them with hand-held missiles. "They bound them in bitter chains." and hurled them into captivity to far Tartarus. "There, by the counsel of Zeus who rides the clouds, the Titan gods are hidden under misty gloom, in a dank place at the ends of huge Earth." The three Cyclopes stayed there, too, as “trusty warders of Zeus," to watch over the imprisoned Titans. As Zeus was about to claim "the aegis." the suzerainty over all the gods, a sudden challenger appeared on the scene. For, "when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven, great Gaea bare her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, with the aid of golden Aphrodite." Typhoeus ("Typhon") was a real monster: "Strength was with his hands in all that he did, and the feet of the strong god were untiring. From his shoulders grew an hundred heads of a snake, a fearful dragon, with dark, flickering tongues. From under the brows of his eyes, in his marvellous heads, fire flashed; and fire burned from his heads as he glared. And there were voices in all his dreadful heads, which uttered incredible sounds": the sound of a man as he speaks, and the sound of a bull, and that of a lion, and the sound of a puppy. (According to Pindar and Aeschylus, Typhon was gigantic in height, "and his head reached to the stars.") "Truly a thing past help would have happened on that day," the Muses revealed to Hesiod; it was almost inevitable that Typhoeus "would have come to reign over mortals and immortals." But Zeus was quick to perceive the danger and lost no time in attacking him. THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN