#phainos

So I finally had time to research some stuff and decided to finally try and figure out who all of Eos’s kids are. Well lets just say it’s a bit of a mess (like most mythology things).

So lets start with the most consistent and for sure of the bunch;

With her husband Astraeus she had the Anemoi (the 4 winds) Boreas, Zephyrus, Notus and Euros. 

With Tithonos she had Memnon and Emathion (sometimes Emathion exists sometimes he doesn't but he’s always her kid so ya)

Now here is where things get messy, sometimes with her husband Astraeus she has the Astra Planeta (the wondering stars), these guys represent the planets, they are Phainos (Saturn), Phaeton (Jupiter), Pyroeis (Mars), Eosphoros (Venus) and Stilbon (Mercury).  Now lets get one/two of these guys out of the way, Eosphoros is the morning star and is always the son of Eos and Astraeus however sometimes Eosphoros is 2 separate entity's that are Eosphoros (the morning star) and Hesperos (the evening star). In Roman mythology they almost always seem to be two different people however in Greek mythology it seems to fluctuate between 2 separate entity’s to the same person so it gets pretty confusing. I personally find that it makes more sense to me when they are separate. 

Now the other 4, of fuck, after an hour of reserch and trying to figure these guys out all I can say is woff. Lets start with Pyroeis, whom represents mars or the midnight star (damn this guy has cool names and tittles), he seems to always be Eos and Astraeus’s kid but there is so little stuff on him and also the planet Mars is often considered to belong to Ares or Herakles, however I think we can say he is one of Eos’s kids. Stilbon, whom represents the planet Mercury, is in the same situation as Pyroeis so I think we can also consider him one of Eos’s kids. Next up is Phainos or Phaenon that represents Saturn or sometimes Jupiter. Sometimes it is simple and he’s Phaimos the god of the planet Saturn and the child of Eos and Astraeus. Sometimes Prometheus molded him out of clay wonder woman style and made him one of the most beautiful (if not the most beautiful) beings on earth and than tried to hide him from Zeus.  Eros ratted him out and Zeus found the beautiful Phaimos made him immortal and put him among the stars. So Phaimos is either Eos’s kid of Prometheus’s. And now Phaeton the wandering star of Jupiter, after a while of thinking about it I think I figured this kid out. I beleve he is the son of Eos and Astraeus and is the wandering star of Jupiter however some say that he is the son of Helios (the one that crashed the chariot). However I beleve that Helios’s son Phaethon and Eos’s son Phaeton are completely different people and just have similarly spelled names. I’ll leave it at that because the more you dig the more it seems like Phainos, Phaeton and Phaethon are all getting mixed up and combined and I was getting so lost (my brain nearly died).

Last up is Astraea (the god of justice and the constellation of Virgo, sometimes she is known a Dike). Sometimes she is the daughter of Eos and Astraeus, sometimes just Astraeus, sometimes Zeus and Themis. Astaea is an interesting one and I will probably do some art work of her in the future (there ain’t that much out there of her but the stuff that is is just *Italian chef kiss*) but for all intensive purposes I view her as the daughter of Astraeus and only Astraeus. 

This guy must have been some fisherman, with villas and gorgeous mosaics to his name. The fisher mogul of Turkey.