He was so large that his head was said to brush the stars. Typhoeus appeared human down to the thighs, but had two coiled vipers in place of legs with hissing serpentine heads. Attached to his hands in place of fingers were a hundred serpent heads, fifty each hand. He was winged, with dirty matted hair and beard, pointed ears, and eyes flashing fire.

Some said he had two hundred hands each with fifty serpernts for fingers and a hundred heads, one in human form with the rest being heads of bulls, boars, serpents, lions and leopards.