The Titans

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Gaea
The earth mother.
Kronos
Cronus, god of time and
of the ages.
Rhea
Rhea, a Titaness, was married to
Cronus. She bore him four
children: Hestia, Hera, Hades and
Poseidon. However, unfortunately
for Rhea, Cronus devoured them
soon after they were born because
he knew that one of his sons
would overpower him and he
hoped that swallowing his
children would change his
destiny. But Rhea, when she was
ready to give birth to her fifth
child, hid herself in a cave on the
island of Crete. She gave birth to
Zeus in this cave. Instead of the
baby, she gave Cronus a stone
wrapped in baby clothes, which
he swallowed without knowing
what Rhea had done. For the rest
of his youth, Zeus was raised in
that hidden cave on Crete by
nymphs and goats.
Hyperion
HYPERION was the Titan
god of light, one of the sons
of Ouranos (Heaven) and
Gaia (Earth), and the father
of the lights of heaven--Eos
the Dawn, Helios the Sun,
and Selene the Moon. His
wife was Theia, lady of the
aither--the shining blue of
the sky. Hyperion's name
means "watcher from above"
or "he who goes above" from
the Greek words hyper and
iôn.
Hyperion was one of the four
Titan brothers who
conspired with Kronos in the
castration of their father
Ouranos.
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