Titans and Gods Greek Mythology By Andrew Waters
Titans and Gods Greek Mythology By: Andrew Waters
Titans • In Greek Mythology titans are the second in the divine being chain • They are children of primordial deities • The first titans were Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia, Phoebe, Rhea, Themis, Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, Cronus, Crius, and Iapetus. • One of the most famous titans was Cronus. • Cronus and Rhea were parents to many children but there most famous child was Zeus
Cronus • He was the Ruler of the Titans • He was born from the divine descendants of Uranus • Cronus became the Ruler of the titans by castrating his farther Uranus • He ruled with an iron fist • He was ruler during the golden age on earth
Rhea • • Was also born from Uranus She was Cronus sister and wife She was considered the goddess of Olympia She gave birth to six children; Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera and Zeus
The Fall of the Titans • Cronus was very spooked over his children over throwing him as he had done to his farther. • So he ate all of this children • Rhea upset with all her children being taken from her she trick Cronus into eating a rock instead of Zeus. • When Zeus grew up he did just the thing his farther was worried about, rebelled against the titans. • Zeus defeated the titans and banished them to Tartarus in the underworld.
The gods of Olympia • • • Zeus and his siblings were now in control of Olympia The problem was that they had no means of deciding who got what They basically picked roles out of a hat Zeus became the ruler of Olympia Hestia became the ruler of Hearth Hades became the ruler of the underworld Poseidon became the ruler of the sea Demeter became the ruler of the harvest Hera became the ruler of marriage and childbirth
Zeus and Hera • Zeus wanted to marry Hera but she had no interest • Zeus tried everything to get her to marry him, in the end he tricked her • Zeus knew of her love of animals so he transformed himself into Peacock • • and pretend to be wounded Hera carrying for the wound Peacock she started to breast feed it Zeus saw this as his chance and proceed to rape Hera ended up marrying Zeus out of shame Zeus had a lot of children but only a few with Hera
The end Sources http: //www. greekmythology. com/ http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Titan_%28 mythology%29
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