Page 39 - Kallima Newsletter - April - May 2021

Hyperion
The Titan of light or sunlight and the father of the sun god Helios. He was known as the Pillar of the East. Along with his brothers Coeus, Crius and Lapetus, he acted as a Pillar holding heaven and Earth apart.
Theia
Hyperion’s wife and a goddess of brightness and shining.
Coeus
The god of intelligence, wisdom and the stars and the Pillar of the North Pole, as it was here that the constellations revolved.
Phoebe
Goddess of brightness and intelligence. She was mother of Leto by Coeus.
Mnemosyne
The goddess of memory and mother of the Muses (Zeus, son of Cronus, was the father).
Themis
Goddess of divine law, order and customs. She was also mother to the Fates and the Hours (Zeus was the father)
Crius
The Titan of heavenly constellations who was also known as a Pillar of the South Pole.
Lapetus
The god of mortality, presiding over the lifespan,
Cronus Rhea Oceanus
or timeline, of all mortals. He fathered some of the most powerful of the Titan children including Atlas and Prometheus.
He was also known as the Pillar of the West.
The Myth of the Mutilation of Uranus
According to Hesiod. Gaia also bore other children who were fathered by Uranus. These include the giant – one-eyed Cyclops – Brontes (“Thunder”), Steropes (“Lightening”) and Arges (“Bright”), and the Hecatonchires – Cottus, Briaroes and Gyges – creatures of incredible strength with a hundred hands and 50 heads each.
And while Uranus continued to sleep with Gala every night, he felt repelled and threatened by his strong-looking offspring
Initially, he tried to push them back into Gala’s womb, causing her horrific pain. Eventually, he stole them away, imprisoning his six monster-like sons in Tartarus, a gloomy place that lay beneath the Earth or Hades.
This resulted in Gala plotting with her Titan children to overthrow him.
She made a grey flint sickle and gave it to Cronus, the most eager of her children to overthrow his father and thus rule in his stead.
On a night when Uranus approached Gala for sexual intercourse, he was ambushed by his sons and Cronus used the weapon to castrate his father. He then threw both the sickle and Uranus’ genitals into the sea.
Tethys Hyperion Theia
Coeus Phoebe Mnemosyne
Themis Crius Lapetus
39