Mythology

• Tartarus


  The primordial god of the stormy pit beneath the earth, where gods locked up their enemies and where Zeus banished the Titans
• Protogenoi of Greek mythology

  • Earth
  • Air
  • Sea
  • Sky
  • Fresh Water
  • Underworld
  • Darkness
  • Night
  • Light
  • Day
  • Procreation
  • Time
• The Greeks also gave the gods human qualities and emotion
• Nyx (Nox)

  The goddess of the night, parented by Chaos, married to Erebus, and produced Hemera (Day) and Aether (Light)
• Aether


  The personification of the bright upper sky, son of Erebus and Nyx, brother of Hemera
• Uranus (Caelus)


  Primordial god and personification of the Sky and Heavens, Zeus' grandfather and husband (and son) of Gaea
• Pontus (Thalassa)


  The primordial god of the sea, born from Earth, son of Gaia, and considered the oldest Greek divinity of the waters
• Chaos


  The first primordial god, translated as "The gaping void" in ancient Greek
• Greeks were able to determine proper based on what would "anger the gods" or "please the gods"
• The Greeks were the earliest people to give their gods human forms
• Erebus


  The god of a dark region of the underworld and the personification of darkness, fathered evil, neutral, and good children
• Hemera (Day)


  The Primordial Goddess of Day with divine authority and control over fire, capable of controlling the movement and rotation of planets
• Eros (Cupid)


  The god of love and physical desire, causing confusion and irrepressible feelings, one of the first beings to emerge at creation
• Gaia (Terra Mater)


  Greek goddess of Earth, mother of all life, giver of dreams and nourisher of plants and young children
• Flora

  Goddess of plants and young children
• Uranus was the father of the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hecatoncheires
• Uranus (Caelus)


  Primordial god and personification of the Sky and Heavens
• Rhea's offspring

  • Poseidon
  • Hades
  • Demeter
  • Hestia
  • Hera
  • Zeus
  • Persephone (Orphic)
• Cronus married his sister Rhea
• Hyperion was the father of the lights of heaven: Eos (Dawn), Helios (Sun), and Selene (Moon)
• Theia (Dione)


  Titan Goddess of Heavenly Light
• Iapetus (Japetus)


  Titan God of Mortality
• Coeus

  Titan God of Intellect
• Rhea (Ops)


  Titan Goddess of Motherhood and Fertility
• Atlas


  Titan god who is the Bearer of the Heavens
• Phoebe


  Titan Goddess of Intellect
• Heracles (aka Hercules) held the sky for Atlas for a while, in exchange for some golden apples
• Oceanus (Ocean)


  Titan God of Ocean, Streams, Water
• Tethys


  Titan Goddess of Fresh Water who bore six thousand children to her husband Oceanus, becoming the rulers of all rivers, streams, lakes, and rain clouds, and a devoted mentor
• Prometheus was credited with the creation of humanity from clay and defying the gods by stealing fire and giving it to mankind, leading to an eternal punishment by Zeus
• Rhea saved her youngest child Zeus by wrapping a stone in swaddling clothes and giving this to Cronus to swallow
• Uranus was Zeus' grandfather and the husband (and also son) of Gaea
• Flora is often shown as being present at the birth of Zeus, but in some legends she is his enemy because she is the mother of the Titans
• Cronus (Saturn)

  The King of the Titans and the god of time
• Theia was the sister/wife of Hyperion and the goddess who endowed gold and silver with their brilliance and intrinsic value
• Hyperion was one of the Titans who fought Zeus and got banished to Tartarus (the underworld)
• Cronus fathered the first of the Olympians and swallowed his children except for Zeus
• Phoebe was the wife/sister of Coeus, grandmother of Artemis and Apollo
• Coeus was mainly important because his grandkids were Artemis and Apollo and like the other male Titans, he did some time in Tartarus
• Hyperion (Saturnus)

  Titan god of heavenly light