well, it took 2 times, he killed me once, but since I had anticipated that and made sure I levelled up just before I reached him, there was minimal loss in exp.
I went collossus and summoned my ancestors, before he killed me, he was already at 1/4th of his total energy.
So I ran from the last savepoint to the telkine, waited for collossus and ancestors to recharge, then he was at 1/3rd his energy and then I went ballistic on him and he died in like 10 seconds.
My ancestors really help majorly, they really kick *** as long as they don't fall under a spell.
And I ca't wait to see what I'll find indeed.

Strange thing is, when I was farming typhon on normal, I noticed that if I just ran by every monster up till the minotaurs, they'll leave me alone. I can hack away at the minotaurs, they won't attack me at all, even those huge ogres a the end, they'll fire their magic once and then walk away for me to kill them easy.
If that's the same way on epic, this should be easy.
*EDIT* removed the profanity