Quotes:Taoer

H. P. Blavatsky

Taöer. The female Typhon, the hippopotamus, called also Ta‐ur, Ta‐op‐oer, etc. ; she is the Thoueris of the Greeks. This wife of Typhon was represented as a monstrous hippopotamus, sitting on her hind legs with a knife in one hand and the sacred knot in the other the pâsa of Siva). Her back was covered with the scales of a crocodile, and she had a crocodile’s tail. She is also called Teb, whence the name of Typhon is also, sometimes, Tebh. On a monument of the sixth dynasty she is called “the nurse of the gods”. She was feared in Egypt even more than Typhon. (See “ Typhon”.)

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Taoer