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Frightening offspring were born to them

• Briareus the Vigorous
• Cottus the Furious
• Gyges the Big-Limbed

Huge beings each with only one eye in the middle of their foreheads. They were great builders and smiths.
Uranus hated these creatures and imprisoned them in the center of the earth.

Males
• Oceanus
• Coeus
• Hyperion
• Crius
• Iapetus
• Cronus *
• Tethys
Females
• Rhea *
• Themis
• Mnemosyne
• Phoebe
• Thia

Gaea, wishing to free her children and vent her wrath upon Uranus for his treatment of her offspring, enlisted the aid of Cronus, her Titan son. With a weapon similar to a sickle,
Cronus wounded his father.
From the blood and wounded parts sprang up a strange collection of beings:

Cronus, the new Lord of the Universe, took his sister Rhea for his bride.

When Cronus defeated Uranus, becoming lord of the universe, Uranus prophesied that Cronus’ children would in turn overthrow him.
Thus, Cronus swallowed each of his children as soon as they were born.

Rhea tricked Cronus. She hid her last baby and gave Cronus a rock to swallow instead.
Zeus grew up in the care of nymphs on
Mt. Ida. The goat
Amalthea provided him with milk, and one of her horns was later presented by Zeus to the nymphs.

When the time was right, Zeus came back. He gave his father a poison drink which made Cronus violently ill.
He vomited up his children, who were now fully grown . . .
. . . AND ANGRY!

Poseidon
Children of Cronus and Rhea
Hades
Zeus

Children of Cronus and Rhea
Hestia
Demeter
Hera

Artemis
Athena
Aphrodite

WAR BETWEEN THE TTITANS AND GODS

Zeus - Supreme God; God of the
Sky
Poseidon - God of the Sea
Hades - God of the Underworld
ALL HAVE POWER ON EARTH

The Metals Theory
_ Golden Race _______________________________
The Silver Race_____________________________
The Bronze Race____________________________
The Age of Heroes___________________________
The Iron Race______________________________