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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], [Church of the SubGenius].
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