Titans (repost from greek gods crash course pt 1)
There were 12 Titans. 6 males and 6 females(talk about equality!) Each titan represented a particular domain of the cosmos. (No particular order)(also, sometimes, Titans are added, some are reduced so...)(these are the usual set)
1. Helios- The physical embodiment of the sun. Usually people say Apollo is the god of the sun, but not rly... I don't know where that came from
2. Oceanus- you know what it is
3. Coeus- intellect
4. Hyperion- the heavenly light, light. Some say he is the father of helios, selene(moon) and eos(dawn). Here, husband of theia(light)
5. Iapetus- mortality(don't ask), violent death(ironically, he's the dad of prometheus)(the guy that was subjected to having his livers eaten by vultures everyday only for it to grow back and repeat for all of eternity), craftsmanship, etc6. Cronus- time, harvest(the weapon he was given to fight Uranus with was a sickle)
7.Rhea- fertility, motherhood, wife of Cronus, mother of the gods
8. Mnemosyne- memory, artistic inspiration (her and zues' children are the 9 muses who were singers, poets, painters, everything art) (nemosinee)
9. Theia- heavenly light, sight, bright blue sky, shining of gold and silver (mother of sun, moon, dawn) (in science the theory for moon to be born is that a mars shaped object hit the earth, causing a chunk to be blown off forming the moon. The mars sized object was named..... Theia. THEIA!!! MOTHER OF MOON!!!!!!!!!)(NASA notice me)
10. Themis- judgement, divine law and order (all the legalities), oracles, right hand of zues and advisor (the blindfolded lady in courtrooms. She had a sword and scale only at first, then during the renaissance, to show impartiality, they stopped showing us her eyes)
11. Pheobe- light(srsly?) Nah, radiance, wife of coeus, her children were Leto and Asteria. (Asteria was pursued by Zeus but managed to escape into the island Delos and when her sis was raped by the same fing guy, and pursued to be killed by hera(his wife), she gave her shelter. Leto then birthed Appollo and Artemis (you'll know em in a sec) here. But in the end, Hera didn't hurt Asteria cus she was impressed by her dignity and unwillingness to interfere in her and zues' relationship.)
12. Tethys- freshwater, wife of oceanus, mother of water nymphs and stuff]
Olympians coming up next~
