She was the goddess of light, and therefore the perfect match for her brother, Hyperion. She also imbued gold, silver, and precious gems with their radiant shine, and spoke through an oracle at Phthiotis in Thessaly.
Coeus was the keeper of the pillar of the north. He was the Titan god of intellect, and married his sister Phoebe. Their children, Asteria and Leto, were foundational figures in later mythology. Both daughters were pursued by Zeus. Asteria turned into a quail and drowned herself in the Aegean Sea, but Leto bore Zeus two children, the twins Apollo and Artemis who became powerful Olympians.
Phoebe also had some association with the moon, as did Artemis. Her most integral power was that of prophecy, and she was heavily associated with the famous Oracle at Delphi , later connected to Apollo. Crius or Krios married his half-sister, Eurybia, who was not one of the original twelve Titans but the daughter of Gaea from her second husband, Pontus.
They produced three children, Astraios, the god of dusk , Pallas, god of Warcraft , and Perses, the god of destruction. The goddess of memory and the voice of the underground Oracle of Trophonios in Boetia, Mnemosyne did not marry one of her brothers but still helped mother the next generation of deities. She slept with Zeus for nine consecutive days, and as a result, gave birth to the nine muses; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomeni, Polymnia, Ourania, Terpsichore and Thalia whose roles were to give artists and philosophers inspiration for creation.
The Titan Iapetus was the god of craftsmanship or mortality , varying between sources. He married one of his Oceanid nieces, Clymene, and they produced four sons, Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius. These four sons were the ancestors of the first humans, and each passed a certain detrimental quality onto humanity; brash courage, scheming, stupidity, and violence, respectively. The Titan goddess Themis represented natural and moral order and law.
She became the second wife of Zeus, helped him hold power over the other gods and all the earth. She created the divine laws that even superseded the authority of the gods themselves. She manifested in multiple different forms, and mothered the Fates and the Hours.
Themis was the main Titan goddess of the oracle at Delphi, but she was so fond of Apollo that she eventually offered the Oracle to him. Although he was the youngest son of Gaea and Uranus, Cronus was also the strongest of the Greek Titans.
For a brief time, earth enjoyed a Golden Age under his rule. The vices had not yet been invented, and the earth was in total peace and harmony.
These were the first gods and goddesses and were called the Titans. Later, Cronus went on to marry his sister, the Titan Rhea.
To avoid any altercation with his children, anytime Rhea gave birth to a baby, Cronus would swallow it whole, which angered Rhea.
Rhea asked Gaia for help. Mother Earth suggested that she hid the next baby away from Cronus in a cave on the island of Crete. Rhea named this next son Zeus and he grew up strong and healthy while hiding in the cave. He was taken care of by Nymphs nature goddesses and they gave him milk from a magical goat named Amalthea.
When Zeus grew up and found out the truth about his father he set out to defeat him. Zeus along with his brothers and sisters making up the Olympians ; Hera Goddess of marriage , Poseidon God of the sea , Hades God of the underworld , Hestia Goddess of the hearth , and Demeter Goddess of crops and the harvest declared war on the Titans.
After long years of bloody battle with no victor, Mother Earth told Zeus about her other children that could help him, the Hekatoncheires and the Cyclopes. They also wanted revenge on Cronus for keeping them imprisoned. None of her sons would raise a weapon against Ouranos except for Cronus , the youngest of the Titans, who used a sickle to castrate Ouranos and dismember his corpse.
The dying Ouranos prophesied that Cronus would be overthrown by one of his own sons. Cronus seized Olympus and ruled over Ancient Greece , but he neglected to free the Cyclopes or the Hekatonkheires. His wife, Rhea , was guided by Gaea to conceal the birth of her youngest son, Zeus , feeding Cronus a boulder in place of the infant. Upon adulthood, Zeus freed the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires as allies to conquer Olympus. Zeus was supported by a few of the Titans and by his freed siblings, supposedly swallowed by Cronus in order to prevent the prophecy of Ouranos.
The Titans were defeated and imprisoned in Tartarus watched over by Zeus' brother, the god Hades , who reserved part of the underworld as a realm of the dead. In later years, the Titan Prometheus recalled on his pact of honor to Hercules. In ancient times, Prometheus had taken fire from the heavens to grant it to mortal man and Zeus had ordered him chained to the Caucasus Mountains on Earth as punishment.
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