Though several possible derivations of the name Typhon have been suggested, the derivation remains uncertain. Consistent with Hesiod's making storm winds Typhon's offspring, some have supposed that Typhon was originally a wind-god, and ancient sources associated him with the Greek words tuphon, tuphos meaning whirlwind. Other theories include derivation from a Greek root meaning smoke (consistent with Typhon's identification with volcanoes), from an Indo-European root (*dhuH-) meaning abyss (making Typhon a Serpent of the Deep), and from Sapõn the Phoenician name for the Ugaritic god Baal's holy mountain Jebel Aqra (the classical Mount Kasios) associated with the epithet Baʿal Sapōn.