Eris

/e'ris/ The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and

Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinised 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 Church of the SubGenius.

[Jargon File]

(1994-12-08)