Titans Mythology
The titans in the first generation are the aunts uncles and parents of zeus and company the well known olympian gods and goddesses these titans are the 12 children of the primordial personifications of the earth gaia and the sky.
Titans mythology. They were immortal giants of incredible strength and knowledge of old religion rituals and magic. Titans the twelve titans children of uranus heaven and gê were the group of gods immediately preceding the olympian gods in greek mythology the olympians defeated the titans in a battle the titanomachy the word titanic refers to the great size and power of the titans attributes necessary to make their defeat by their children the olympians more impressive. First generation titans of greek mythology. They were the children of the primordial deities uranus heaven and gaea earth.
It told how the titan cronus the youngest of the titans overthrew uranus and how in turn zeus by waging and winning a great ten year war pitting the new gods against the old gods called the titanomachy titan war overthrew cronus and his fellow titans and was eventually established as the final and permanent ruler of the cosmos. Their role as elder gods being overthrown by a race of younger gods the olympians led by zeus effected a mythological paradigm shift that the greeks borrowed from the ancient near east. The brothers oceanus coeus crius hyperion iapetus and cronus and the sisters thea rhea themis mnemosyne phoebe and tethys at the instigation of gaea the titans rebelled against their father who had shut them up in. They are also known as the elder gods and their dwelling place was at mount othrys in greek culture they were interpreted as personifications of the earth gaea and the.
According to hesiod s theogony there were 12 original titans. The mighty titans were a powerful race that ruled the world before olympians in a time of the golden age of men. Of these only the eight depicted below appear in ancient art. The most important of the titan gods were the twelve uranides cronus oceanus iapetus hyperion crius coeus rhea tethys theia phoebe themis and mnemosyne and the four iapetionides atlas prometheus epimetheus and menoetius.
Greek mythology greek gods titans titans i. Titan in greek mythology any of the children of uranus heaven and gaea earth and their descendants. There are twelve titans. Ocean and fruitful earth.
The titans were the deities in greek mythology that preceded the olympians. The uranides iapetionides. The titans greek τιτάν plural τιτάνες were a race of powerful elemental deities of great size that ruled during the legendary golden age in greek mythology at the beginning there were only 12 titans apollodorus adds a thirteenth titan dione they were associated with various primal concepts some of which are simply extrapolated from their names.