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Titans and myths of Ancient Greece

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Hesiod claimed, the word Titan means “Strainer”, because they strained and performed some presumptuous, fearful deed and the vengeance would come after it. Where the Olympians lived in Olympus, the home of the Titans was Othrys, their stronghold.

The exact number of the Titans varied from author to author, and they often included some of the children of the Titans. So there are at least two generations of Titans can be considered.

For a generation, the Titans shared the world and created mankind, with Cronus as their leader. Although a number of the male Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus, when they chose to fight a war against the younger gods, known as the Olympians.

According to the Orphic myth, Zeus destroyed the Titans with his thunderbolts, because the Titans had murdered and devoured his son Zagreus (Dionysus). From the smouldering ashes, mankind were created.

Much of what we know about the Titans is because of Hesiods’ Theogony.

The twelve Titans were the children of Uranus and Gaea.

There were 12 Uranides, six sons and six daughters:

Cronus - God of Eternal Time and King of the Titans, until overthrown by his own son Zeus.

(Okeanos) Oceanus – God of the fresh water rivers that bound the earth; including wells, springs, river and rain. Husband of Tethys, a nurse that claimed to have distributed the water to the earth. The Oldest of the twelve Titans

Iapetus – Son of Uranus and Gaea. He married the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Iapetus was the father of the Titans, Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus and Epimetheus. Some say that Iapetus married his own sister Themis, and became the father of Prometheus

Hyperion – God of the Sun, sometimes referred to as ‘Helios Hyperion’ Sun High one.

Crius - Married his half-sister Eurybia, daughter of Gaea and Pontus, and became father of Perses, Pallas and Astraeus.

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Coeus - God of intellect. He married his sister Phoebe, became the father of Leto and Asteria.

Rhea – Titaness and earth-goddess. According to Diodorus Siculus, Rhea was also known as Pandora. She married her brother, Cronus and was the mother of Olympians: Hestia, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hera and Zeus. When it was prophesied that her children would overthrow her brother/husband, Cronus, he took steps to prevent it.

Tethys - Titaness of the sea. She married her brother, Oceanus. She became the mother of all the river gods. She is said to have bore three thousand daughters, known as the Oceanids. The eldest daughter being Styx, who was the only female river goddess; while Amphitrite, who married Poseidon, and Doris, who married Nereus, became sea goddesses.

Theia - Titaness of sorcery. She was sometimes called, EuryphaEssa (Eurtphaessa). Theia was the goddess of light. She married her brother Hyperion, and was the mother of Eos (“Dawn”), Helius (“Sun”), and Selene (“Moon”). By her other brother Oceanus, she was mother of the Cercopes.

Phoebe – Titaness of the Moon, married her brother Coeus (Coeus). Phoebe became the mother of Leto and Asteria, so Phoebe was the grandmother of Apollo, Artemis and Hecate.

 

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Themis – Titaness of justice and Earth-goddess. Later she became known as the goddess of order and justice. Themis was the second wife of Zeus. Themis became the mother of many children, including the Seasons (Horae) – Eunomia (“Order”), Dike (“Justice”) and Eirene (“Peace”) – and the Fates (Moerae).

Mnemosyne - Titaness of memory. Mnemosyne (“Memory”) was the daughter of Uranus and Gaea. She was the abstract personification of memory. In Roman myths, she was called Moneta.

By Zeus, she was the mother of nine daughters, known as the Muses. Zeus had slept with Mnemosyne for nine nights, and one year later, she gave birth to the nine wondrous daughters. Mnemosyne had named them as Cleio, Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpischore, Erato, Polyhymnia, Urania and Calliope being her eldest daughter.

Dione – An obscure goddess, as it was not certain whether she was either Titaness or Oceanid. Most commonly thought to be the goddess of the sea. She was also known as Thalassa, who was a sea deity. Thalassa was also beleived to the wife of the ancient sea god, Pontus.

Second Generation Titans ( Iapetionides )

Atlas - Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus by the Oceanid Clymene or Asia. Brother of Menoetius, Prometheus and Epimetheus. When his brother, Prometheus tried to persuade him not to go to war against the Olympians, he did not listen. Zeus punished Atlas, by making the Titan carry the weight of the sky upon his shoulders.

Prometheus – Titan of forethought. Son of the Titan Iapetus and by Iapetus’ sister Themis or by Clymene or Asia. Both were Oceanids. Prometheus was the brother of Atlas, Menoetius and Epimetheus.

Prometheus married Pronoea and was the father of Deucalion. During the war between the Titans and Olympians, Prometheus sided with Zeus, knowing that the war would end with the younger gods winning the war.

Prometheus unsuccessfully tried to persuade his father Iapetus and his brother Atlas to change side. Iapetus was thrown into Tartarus, while Atlas would be forever burdened with the weight of heaven on his shoulder.

Epimetheus – Titan of afterthought. Epimetheus ( Afterthought ) was the son of the Titan Iapetus by the Oceanid Clymene or Asia. Brother of Prometheus, Menoetius and Atlas. Epimetheus married the first mortal woman Pandora and was the father of Pyrrha.

Menoetius: Son of Iapetus and Oceanid Clymene or Asia.Brother of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus.

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According to mythological legends of the history of the creation of the world starts from four categories in the whole world, which have names: matter, energy, space, time. That is, Gaia (matter) was one of four initial possibilities also Chaos, Tartarus, Eros are.

As an initial potential Gaia means the presence of the structure, chaos means an absence of structure, the Tatars means destruction, Eros means structuring. These are the basic principles of a world that is incorporated into the framework of Gaia and have formed a formal question at the same time can be chaotic, and is also capable of creating or able to be collapsed. This is the initial list of possibilities have formed a cross raw material shown in the figure:

The Gaia has connected four initial potential and trained Uranus (energy), and with the help of Uranus has formed six male Titans: Oceanus, Coeus, I breed, Hyperion, Iapetus, Cronus and the titans of six women:

Tethys Phoebe, Mnemosyne, Theia, Themis, Rea, who have made a world of material and energy, shown in the figure below. That is, men and women have formed the structure titans of the world, and essentially formed a circle that symbolizes the astrological structure of the world, but on condition that the astrological circle corresponds to the zodiacal constellations (zodiac signs) and mythological essence the Titans, but others also correspond to the zodiacal constellations.

parities of the Titans shows signs of the zodiac are presumed but are based on mythological sources, ie, characters from Greek mythology correlate with the characters of the zodiac signs, which are known in modern astrology. Zodiac signs are of Egyptian origin, but are comparable to the characters of Greek mythology as ancient Egypt and ancient Greece are between cultures.

The arrows in the figure shows the marital relationships of the Titans. The symbols of the planets near the names of the astrological planets Titans specify operating or if the astrological signs of the zodiac.

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Greek Goddesses ; Hercules (Heracles)

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Son of  Zeus and Alcmene the woman who seduced the god in the form of her husband, Amphitryon, king of Thebes. He also had a twin brother, Iphicles, which was a night and the youngest son of Amphitryon.

Heracles was one of the most popular heroes of Greek mythology, and many of his tricks were constantly brought to life in art and literature. In the whole of Greece, was worshiped as a god or a hero. He was a patron of athletics, and one of the founding myths of its Olympic Games. He believed that to ward off evil.

Hera was his constant tormentor, that crazy jealosy its association with the husband’s mother sparked riots Heracles, the hero of many. When Heracles was a baby in the crib, sent two serpents strangled the child, one in each hand. So did angry for a while, it was murder their children with Megara.

In addition to these

induced frenzies Hera, Heracles was a very brutal character. Her music teacher that he killed with his lyre in a fit of anger. When he was eighteen years old he killed a lion, and the rest of his life, he wears his skin.

There are many stories of Heracles. Thank you to him the gods defeated the Giants, because they could not beat them if a mortal would fight with them. As a young man he defeated enemies Thebes and as a reward from King Creon of Thebes gave him his daughter Megara. His constant companion was Iolaus,

Who was also his nephew.

The best-known stories about Hecacles twelve labors. Ready to commit suicide after killing his son, he was told that the oracle at Delphi to do it and cleaned himself off with his cousin King Eurystheus of Mycenae and do what the king said.

The first task was to kill the Nemean lion, which he did with his bare hands. This frightened the king so he would not let Heracles within the walls of Mycenae; hero had his trophy to show off the walls.

The second job is to fight the Hydra, a nine-headed monster immortal. If a severed head, two infants in place. Hercules defeated the Hydra with the help of his friend Iolaus. Every time a cut head, neck Iolaus burned with fire, so it could not grow new heads. When all the leaders were out of the monster that was buried under a pile of stones. Heracles dipped his arrows in the blood of the Hydra, which mortals.

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Was to capture Cerynitic hind legs, which has revived Mycenae.

The fourth work of catching a terrible boar that lived in the mountains in northern Arcadia Erymanthus.

The fifth work for purifying Augean stable Kong “of Elis in the Peloponnese. The team was huge and full of manure, and Heracles cleaned by the two largest rivers in it.

The sixth labor was to kill the birds monster Stymphalos North Arcadia, which has made it through Athena.

The seventh labor was to capture the Cretan bull, which was either a father or a bull Minotaur, who had reported in Europe. Heracles brought to Mycenae, but let it go, and walked away with Theseus, Attica was later to fight against it.

The work of the eight was to capture the king of the horses of Diomedes man Trace eat. Heracles killed the king and the captured horses, and founded the city of Abdera.

The ninth labor was to obtain the girdle of Queen Hippolyta of the Amazons. He beat both and gave it to him willingly.

Tenth of the work was to restore the herds of the giant island Eurytion Erytheia. On the way to this place in West Oceanos had to go through the Atlas Mountains, through the creation of the Pillars of Hercules – Gibraltar today. He made the island a Sungod cup, and killed orthros Eurytion and dog. Sociable, the Brough returned to Greece.

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The eleventh labor was to bring back the golden apples of the Hesperides. According to one version, he killed the dragon guarding the apples and took them. In a second, he went to the Atlas, the father of the Hesperides. Heracles took the sky on his shoulders while Atlas fetched the apples, but when he returned, he would not bear the burden of the sky again. Heracles tells him to keep the sky for a brief moment when he put a pillow over his shoulders, and then misled Atlas to take his position again.

The twelfth and final labor was to bring the three title dod Cerberus, that guards Hades, he did.

When these labor Heracles was his punishment, and married Deianira, whose father was the son of Poseidon Antaeus. When Heracles killed the centaur Nessus attacked his wife, the dying centaur told Deianira to save some ‘of his blood and take a dip in the tunic. If sometimes necessary to ensure a love of Heracles, everything that had to do was do use the tunic.

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Later, blood was shown to be poision centaur, and could not descend, slowly poisoning him to death and causing him great pain. Heracles then mounted on the pyre and was deified by marrying Hebe in the bush. Olympus.

There are many other stories of Hercules. He was one of the Argonauts for a short time, he defeated many monsters and the people and the adventures they went through countless.

Heracles also had the following epithets:

Alexicacus, Buraicus, Charops, Cynagidas, Macistus, Melampygos, Menytes, misogyny, Rhinocolustes.

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