The Titans, or Titans, are an ancient race of gods in Greek mythology that once ruled the world. This family is the children of Uranus, the god of the sky, and Gaia, the goddess of the earth. They once ruled the world, but Overthrown and replaced by the Zeus family, the twelve Titans in Greek mythology are:
Oceanus
Coeus
Crius
Iapetus
Phoebe
Thethys< /p>
Kronos
Rhea
Themis
Monemosyne (Mnemosyne)
Hyperion
Theia
Titans are not Giants
When the great god Uranus scolded the children he gave birth to, he often called them Titans - the nervous ones. He said that they had committed a terrible crime in their nervousness and would be punished in the future. (Excerpted from Hesiod's "Theogony")
Titans does not originally mean "giant" (note the difference from the English Titanic), Giants are giants, a group of people conceived by the earth mother Gaia alone< /p>
The earliest Titans were twelve, born to the earth mother Gaia and the sky god Uranus, namely "deep eddy Oceanus, Coos, Clios" ( Cres, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe with the golden crown, and lovely Thesis. Cronus, the cunning and scheming one, was born, the youngest but most terrible of all the children of Gaia on earth, who hated his lusty father" (from Hesiod's "Theogony"), that is, six The male Titan gods are:
Oceanus - the god of oceans and rivers
Coeus - the god of darkness, intelligence, and inquiry
Hyperion - God of light and sun
Crius - God of growth and vitality.
Iapetus—god of soul and death
Cronus—god of sky, time and space (second generation god-king)
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The six Titan goddesses are:
Thea - goddess of treasures, sunlight and vision
Rhea - goddess of fertility, time, wind and frost (The second generation of the Goddess)
Themis - the goddess of water, order and justice
Mnemosyne - the goddess of memory and the three goddesses of poetry One
Phoebe - answer, goddess of the moon
Tethys - goddess of the ocean
Except for these twelve gods In addition:
Aitna: Sicilian volcano goddess
Melete: goddess of meditation (contemplation), one of the three goddesses of poetry
< p>Aoede: the goddess of singing (vocal music), one of the three goddesses of poetryDione: the goddess of the ice and sea [another often said is that she is an Oak Daughter of Anos and Thesis]
Adanos: God of Judgment
Ostasos: God of Replacement
Andes: God of the Andes
Olymbros: God of the Holy Mountain (the incarnation of the Holy Mountain of Olympus)
Their children in the future They are all called Titans (Titans), so Zeus and the gods of Olympus are generally descendants of Titans (Aphrodite is not)
Uranus was castrated The blood spattered on Gaia's body, and she alone gave birth to the monsters Giants, Erinyes, the three goddesses of revenge, and Melia, the three goddesses of white oak and nature.
It can be further deduced that the "Titanomachy" and "Gigantomachy" in ancient Greek mythology are not a war. The former is between Zeus and his brother. The sisters and some Titan gods of their generation and mother Rhea's generation and above fought for power with their father Cronus. The latter had the participation of the gods of Zeus's children, but the former did not (because most of them were not yet born).