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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
