[eer-is, er-is] 
| the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia. |
| E·ris (îr'ĭs, ěr'-) n. Greek Mythology The goddess of discord. |
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.
[The Jargon File]
(1994-12-08)
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