Eris /e'ris/ N. The Greek Goddess Of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, And Things You Know Not Of

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Eris /e'ris/ n.

The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord,
Confusion, and Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinized to
Discordia and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very
friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented as a
more benign personification of creative anarchy starting in 1959 by
the adherents of Discordianism and has since been a
semi-serious subject of veneration in several `fringe' cultures,
including hackerdom. See Discordianism, Chur

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