(stylized version of the Greek monster Typhon, from Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 1652)

The Greek deity Typhon was the offspring of a union between Tartaros and Gaia. He is described as a monster with a hundred dragonlike heads and serpents for feet. The Greeks of Egypt identified Typhon with the Egyptian god of darkness and evil, Set, the brother and mortal enemy of Osiris. The Egyptian Typhon had 72 assistant demons who helped him to enclosed Osiris in a wooden chest, which was allowed to float down the Nile and out to sea (Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. 2, page 124). This number is significant, because it is the same as the number of demons enclosed in a brass bottle by King Solomon.

Notice the strong similarity between Kircher's illustration of Typhon, above, and the image of the fallen angel Aziel, shown elsewhere in the picture gallery of demons. Both have scaly serpentine legs, feminine hips, a beard, and snakes for fingers.