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.