After her husband cronus consumed their first five children, she saved her sixth baby, zeus, by giving cronus a stone to swallow instead. They were smiths and magicians whose number, depending on the source, varied between five and more than fifty After them was born cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire.
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For rhea grateful still the pine remains, for atys still some favour she retains
He once in human shape her breast had warm’d, and now is cherish’d, to a tree transform’d
The fable of cyparissus amid the throng of this promiscuous wood, with pointed top, the taper cypress stood A tree, which once a youth, and heav’nly fair, Collection greek titans the generation of greek gods who directly preceded the olympians the titans were the first children of the primordial greek deities uranus and gaia Two of these titans, cronus and rhea, became the parents of the original generation of olympians, who overthrew the titans, just as the titans had overthrown uranus before them.
Queen of the immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty The earlier titans, whom the olympians overthrew, often had mysterious, exotic, esoteric names like gaia, rhea, and cronus Greek gods have some of the most recognizable names in epic fantasy, so use our fantasy name generator to find inspiration for your character List of greek god names
The dactyls were gods or culture heroes of obscure origins
