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]Last updated: 1994-12-08
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ERGO-Shell ♦ Eric Conspiracy ♦ Eric S. Raymond ♦ Eris ♦ Erlang ♦ ERM ♦ erotica
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