THE HEKATERIDES were five mountain-ranging NYMPHAI famous for their high-kicking country dance and the skillful talent of their fingers.

Together with their five brothers they were known as DAKTYLOI (Fingers) -being ten in number like the fingers of the hands- and as HEKATERIDES (Hundred-Wonders) -being endowed as a group with a hundred of these wonderful appendages.

The male and female Daktyloi were joined in marriage, "finger to finger" like the harmonious folding of the hands, and from this union were born the various mountain-dwelling spirits - Satyroi, Oreiades, and dancing Kouretes.

"Hekateris" was also the name given to the "kheiron kinesis" or dance of the moving hands. Another dance called the "Hekateros" was a high leaping country dance, where the feet were kicked back high to the buttock.

Parents

(1) HEKATEROS & PHORONEUS' DAUGHTER (Homerica Fragments)
(2) HEKATEROS & ANKHIALE (combination of Strabo & Argonautica on the Daktyloi)

Offspring

THE OREIADES, THE SATYROI, THE KOURETES (by the five Daktyloi) (Homerica Fragments, Strabo 10.3.19)

"But of them [the daughters of Hekateros] were born the divine mountain Nymphai and the tribe of worthless, helpless Satyroi, and the divine Kouretes, sportive dancers." -Homerica Fragments of Unknown Position 6 sourced from Strabo

"Further, one might also find ... these Daimones [Kouretes, Satyroi & Oreiades]... were called, not only ministers of gods, but also gods themselves. For instance, Hesiod says that five daughters were born to Hekateros and the daughter of Phoroneus, 'from whom sprang the mountain-ranging Nymphai, goddesses, and the breed of Satyroi, creatures worthless and unfit for work, and also the Kouretes, sportive gods, dancers." -Strabo 10.3.19

"Sophokles thinks that the first male Daktyloi were five in number, who were the first to discover and to work iron, as well as many other things which are useful for the purposes of life, and that their sisters [the Hekaterides?] were five in number, and that they were called Daktyloi (Fingers) from their number [ten]." -Strabo 10.3.22

Sources:

* Homerica, Fragments - Greek Epic BC
* Strabo, Geography - Greek Geography C1st BC - C1st AD

LELANTOS was the younger TITAN-god of being unobserved or unnoticed (gifts he bestowed on the beasts of the earth). He appears to have sat out the Titan-War in his natural state of obscurity.

Parents

Probably either KOIOS or KRIOS though nowhere stated

Offspring

AURA (by Periboia) (Dionysiaca 48.264)

“There [in Phrygia] grew Aura the mountain maiden of Rhyndakos, and hunted over the foothills of rocky Dindymon. She was unacquainted with love ... like a younger Artemis, this daughter of Lelantos; for the father of this stormfoot girl was ancient Lelantos the Titan, who wedded Periboia, a daughter of Okeanos; a manlike maid she was, who knew nothing of Aphrodite." -Dionysiaca 48.264

"[Artemis asks Nemesis to turn the Titanis to stone for insulting her] and the goddess replied with encouraging words:
‘Chaste daughter of Leto ... I will not use my sickle to chastise a Titan girl, I will not make the maiden a stone in Phrygia, for I am myself born of the ancient race of Titanes [Nemesis was a daughter of Okeanos], and her father Lelantos might blame me when he heard.’ -Dionysiaca 48.442

Sources:

* Nonnos, Dionysiaca - Greek Epic C5th AD

MENOITIOS was the TITAN-god of angry thoughts and words. He struck down by Zeus with a thunderbolt for his outrageousness.

Parents

IAPETOS & KLYMENE (Theogony 507, Apollodorus 1.8)

"Now Iapetos took to wife the neat-ankled maid Klymene, daughter of Okeanos, and went up with her into one bed. And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very glorious Menoitios ... But Menoitios was outrageous, and far-seeing Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt and sent him down to Erebos because of his mad presumption and exceeding pride." -Theogony 507-511

"The Titanes had children ... Atlas who holds the sky on his shoulders, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoitios whom Zeus struck with a thunderbolt in the Titane battle and confined to Tartaros, were all sons of Iapetos and Asia." -Apollodorus 1.8-9

Sources:

* Hesiod, Theogony - Greek Epic C8th-7th BC
* Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd BC

OPHION was the eldest of the TITANES. He inherited the throne from his father Ouranos after his castration by Kronos. Kronos, however, soon staged a coup and cast Ophion and his wife Eurynome into the River Okeanos.
It is likely that Ophion was originally identical to Okeanos, who is usually called the eldest of the Titanes, and this would explain why he remained neutral in the Titan-War. Okeanos was also always depicted with a serpentine-fish tail, so Ophion (Serpent) is an appropriate name for him.

Parents

Presumably OURANOS & GAIA like the other Titanes
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OPHION RULER OF THE UNIVERSE

“As he [Helios the Sun] shines on the descendants of Ophionides (sons of Ophion) .. [missing text] .. the older gods [the Titanes].” –Callimachus Aetia Frag 177

“He [Orpheus] sang of ... how, in the beginning, Ophion and Eurynome, daughter of Okeanos, governed the world from snow-clad Olympos; how they were forcibly supplanted, Ophion by Kronos, Eurynome by Rhea; of their fall into the waters of Okeanos; and how their successors ruled the happy Titan gods.” –Argonautica 1.498f

”Him [Zeus] who is lord of Ophion’s throne [the king wrestled and deposed by Kronos] ... his [Zeus'] mother [Rhea], skilled in wrestling, having cast into Tartaros the former queen [Eurynome wife of Ophion].” –Lycophron 1191

“[Hera:] 'I am afraid Kronides [Zeus], who is called my husband and brother, will banish me from heaven for a woman’s bed ... I will leave heaven because of their earthly marriage, I will go to the uttermost bounds of Okeanos and share the hearth of primeval Tethys; thence I will pass to the house of and abide with Ophion.” –Dionysiaca 8.110

"The first tablet [recording the prophecies of Phanes], old as the infinite past, containing all things in one: upon it was all that Ophion lord paramount had done, all that ancient Kronos accomplished." -Dionysiaca 12. 43
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"[Harmonia to Aphrodite:] 'I have oracles of history on seven tablets, and the tablets bear the names of the seven planets. The first has the name of revolving Selene [the Moon]; the second is called of Hermes [planet Mercury], a shining tabled of gold, upon which are wrought all the secrets of law; the third has your name [Aphrodite the planet Venus], a rosy tablet, for it has the shape of your star in the East; the fourth is Helios [the Sun], cental navel of the seven travelling planets; the fifth is called Ares [the planet Mars], red and fiery; the sixth is called Phaethon [the planet Jupiter], the planet of Kronides [Zeus]; the seventh shows the name of highmoving Kronos [the planet Saturn]. Upon these, ancient Ophion has engraved in red letters all the divers oracles of fate for the universe. But since you ask me about the directing laws, this prerogative I keep for the eldest of cities. Whether then Arkadia is first or Hera’s city [Argos], whether Sardis be the oldest, or even Tarsos celebrated in song be the first city, or some other, I have not been told. The tabled of Kronos will teach you all this, which first arose, which was coeval with Dawn.’
She spoke; and led the way to the glorious oracles of the wall, until she saw the place where Ophion’s art had engraved in ruddy vermilion on the tablet of Kronos the oracle to be fulfilled in time about Beroe’s country. ‘Beroe came the first, coeval with the universe her agemate, bearing the name of the Nymphe later born, which the colonizing sons of the Ausonians, the consular lights of Rome, shall call Berytos, since here fell a neighbour of Lebanon … ‘
Such was the word of prophecy that she learnt. But when the deity had scanned the prophetic beginning of the seventh tabled, she looked at the second, where on the neighbouring wall many strange signs were engraved with varied art in oracular speech: how first Shepherd Pan will invent the syrinx, Helikonian Hermes the harp, tender Hyagnis the music of the double pipes with their clever holes, Orpheus the streams of mystic song with divine voice, Apollon’s Linos eloquent speech; how Arkas the traveller will find out the measures of the twelve months, and the sun’s circuit which is the mother of the years brought forth by his fourhorse team; how wise Endymion with changing bends of his fingers will calculate the three varying phases of Selene; how Kadmos will combine consonant with vowel and teach the secrets of correct speech; how Solon will invent inviolable laws, and Kekrops the union of two yoked together under the sacred yoke of marriage made lawful with Attic torch.
Now the Phaphian [Aphrodite], after all these manifold wonders of the Mousa, scanned the various deeds of the scattered cities; and on the written tabled which lay in the midst on the circuit of the universe, she found the words of wisdom inscribed in many lines of Grecian verse:
‘When Augustus shall hold the sceptre of the world, Ausonian Zeus will give to divine Rome the lordship, and to Beroe he will grant the reins of law, when armed in her fleet of shielded ships she shall pacify the strife of battlestirring Kleopatra … ‘
Then the goddess, having learnt all the oracles of Ophion, returned to her own house." -Dionysiaca 41.339

Sources:

PALLAS was the TITAN-god of the warrior and the father of Victory, Power, Force, and Rivalry.

At the end of the Titan-War he was cast into Tartaros with the rest of the Titanes. Zeus later released them from this prison and Kronos became King of Elysium. Presumably the other Titanes settled in Elysium as well.

Parents

KRIOS & EURYBIA (Theogony 375, Apollodorus 1.8)

Offspring

(1) ZELOS, NIKE, KRATOS, BIA (by Styx) (Theogony 383, Apollodorus 1.8)
(2) ZELOS, NIKE, KRATOS, BIA, THE KRINAIAI (Fountains), THE LIMNATOI (Lakes) (by Styx) (Hyginus Pref)
(3) SELENE (Homeric Hymn IV)
(4) EOS (Valerius Flaccus 2.72)

"And Eurybia, bright goddess, was joined in love to Krios and bare great Astraios, and Pallas, and Perses." - Theogony 375-377

"And Styx the daughter of Okeanos was joined to Pallas and bare Zelos (Emulation) and trim-ankled Nike (Victory) in the house. Also she brought forth Kratos (Strength) and Bia (Force), wonderful children." -Theogony 383-403

"Bright [dia] Selene, daughter of the lord Pallas, Megamedes' son, had just climbed her watch-post." -Homeric Hymn IV To Hermes 100-102

"The Titanes had children ... To Kreios and Eurybia, the daughter of Pontos, were born Astraios, Pallas, and Perses ... and Nike, Kratos, Zelos, and Bia were born to Pallas and Styx." -Apollodorus 1.8-9

“The city [Pellene, Akhaia] got its name, according the the Pellenians, from Pallas, who was, they say, one of the Titanes.” -Pausanias 7.26.12

"From Pallas the giant and Styx [were born]: Scylla, Vis [Bia], Inuidia [Zelos], Potestas [Kratos], Victoria [Nike], Fontes (Fountains), Lacus (Lakes)." -Hyginus Pref

Sources:

PERSES was the TITAN-god of man-made destruction - he who lays waste. His only child was Hekate the goddess of witchcraft.

At the end of the Titan-War he was cast into Tartaros with the rest of the Titanes. Zeus later released them from this prison and made Kronos King of Elysium. Presumably Perses and the other Titanes settled in Elysium as well.

Parents

KRIOS & EURYBIA (Theogony 375, Apollodorus 1.8)

Offspring

(1) HEKATE (by Asteria) (Theogony 404, Apollodorus 1.8)
(2) HEKATE (Lycophron 1174)

"And Eurybia, bright goddess, was joined in love to Krios and bare great Astraios, and Pallas, and Perses who was preeminent among all men in wisdom." - Theogony 375-377

"Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led to his great house to be called his dear wife. And she conceived and bare Hecate." -Theogony 404

"Hekate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaios." -Homeric Hymn to Demeter 25

"The Titanes had children ... To Kreios and Eurybia, the daughter of Pontos, were born Astraios, Pallas, and Perses ... Perses and Asteria [were parents] of Hekate." -Apollodorus 1.8-9

“The maiden daughter of Perseos, Brimo Trimorphos [Hekate].” –Lycophron 1174

Sources:

* Hesiod, Theogony - Greek Epic C8th-7th BC
* The Homeric Hymns - Greek Epic C8th-4th BC
* Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd BC
* Lycophron, Alexandra - Greek C3rd BC

(1) OKEANOS, KOIOS, KRIOS, HYPERION, IAPETOS, KRONOS (Theogony 133, Apollodorus 1.1, Diodorus Siculus 5.66.1)
(2) OKEANOS, KOIOS, HYPERION, KRONOS (Hyginus Pref)
(3) IAPETOS, KRONOS, ADANOS, ASTASOS, ANDES, OLYMBROS (Stephanus of Byzantium)
(4) SYKEUS (Athenaeus 78a)
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NAMES OF TITANES (ELDER & YOUNGER)

HELIOS

Greek: 'HlioV Transliteration: Hêlios Translation: Sun
Other Names: ‘UperionideV
Titan
Hlektwr Transliteration: Hyperionides
Titan
Elektor Translation: Son of Hyperion
Titan-God
The Shining
Titles: EleuqerioV
Swthr Transliteration: Eleutherios
Soter Translation: God of Freedom
Savior
Latin Spelling: Helius Roman Name: Sol

HELIOS was the mighty, all-seeing god of the Sun and also, by extension, the god of the gift of sight and the measurements of time.

Helios was depicted as a handsome, beardless man, clothed in purple robes and crowned with the shining aureole of the sun. His golden sun-chariot was drawn by four, fire-breathing,
winged steeds.

Parents

(1) HYPERION & THEIA-EURYPHAESSA (Theogony 371, Homeric Hymn XXXI to Helios, Apollodorus 1.8)
(2) HYPERION (Odyssey 12.168, Homeric Hymn to Demeter 19, Homeric Hymn to Athena 12, Mimnermus Frag 12, Pindar Olympian 7 str3, Metamorphoses 4.170)

DESCRIPTION OF HELIOS

"[Helios] rides his chariot, he shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face: a rich, fine-spun garment glows upon his body and flutters in the wind: and stallions carry him. Then, when he has stayed his golden-yoked chariot and horses, he rests there upon the highest point of heaven, until he marvellously drives them down again through heaven to Okeanos." -Homeric Hymn XXXI to Helios

"All the Children of Helios were easy to recognise, even from a distance, by their flashing eyes, which shot out rays of golden light [like their father's].” –Argonautica 4.726f

"He made his way direct into the presence [of Helios] and there stood afar, unable to approached the dazzling light. Enrobed in purple vestments Phoebus [Helios] sat, high on a throne of gleaming emeralds." -Metamorphoses 2.20

“Sol [Helios the Sun] puts on his diadem of myriad rays and the corselet woven of twelve stars and bound by the belt which athwart the rain-clouds shows for men its many hued bow.” –Valerius Flaccus 4.90

"He [Helios] placed the golden helmet [of the Sun] on Phaethon’s head and crowned him with his own fire, winding the seven rays like strings upon his hair, and put the white kilt girdlewise round him over his loins; he clothed him in his own fiery robe and laced his foot into the purple boot, and gave his chariot to his son.” –Dionysiaca 38.90
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THE BIRTH OF HELIOS

“The lordly sun-god Helios whose father is Hyperion.” –Odyssey 12.168

"And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven." -Theogony 371

"Glowing Helios whom mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one, bare to [Hyperion] the Son of Gaia and starry Ouranos. For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (the Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon) and tireless Helios (the Sun) who is like the deathless gods." -Homeric Hymn XXXI to Helios

"The Titanes had children ... Hyperion and Theia had Eos, Helios, and Selene." -Apollodorus 1.8-9
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”Having crossed the Asopos River again [near Titane, Sikyonia] and reached the summit of the hill, you come to the place where the natives say that Titan first dwelt. They add that he was the brother of Helios (Sun), and that after him the place got the name Titane. My own view is that he proved clever at observing the seasons of the year and times when the sun increases and ripens seeds and fruits, and for this reason was held to be the brother of Helios.” –Pausanias 2.11.5
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HELIOS GOD OF THE SUN

I. HELIOS THE RISING SUN

“Now the Sun (Helios) of a new day struck on the ploughlands, rising out of the quiet water and the deep stream of Okeanos to climb the sky.” –Iliad 7.422

“Leaving the lovely lake of Okeanos, Helios the sun leapt upwards into the brazen sky, brining light for the Deathless Ones, bringing it too for mortal men who live on the earth that gives them grain.” –Odyssey 3.1

"The island of Aeaea [the home of Kirke, daughter of Helios]; it is there that Eos (Dawn) the early comer has her dwelling-place and her dancing-grounds, and Helios the sun himself has his risings.” –Odyssey 12.1

"From the ocean-verge upsprings Helios (the sun) in glory, flashing fire far over earth." -Quintus Smyrnaeus 8.30

”The many-eyed embroidery of blue-black Nyx (Night), and at once rose Hyperionides [Helios], hard-toiling eternally, almighty.” –Greek Lyric V Anonymous Fragments 931J (Oxyrhynchus papyrus)

“Helios (the Sun) came back from the world’s end to light the dewy hills and wake the shepherds.” –Argonautica 2.164

"Bright as Helios’ round face when he rises fresh from Okeanos Stream.” –Argonautica 3.1228

"When Titan [Helios] perceived the Morning Star [Eosphoros] setting and saw the world in crimson sheen ... he bade the nimble Horae (Hours) go yoke his steeds, and they, swift goddesses, fastened the jingling harness and the reins, as from the lofty stalls the horses came, filled with ambrosial food and breathing flame." -Metamorphoses 2.118

“Until Lucifer [Eosphoros] (the Morning Star) should wake Aurora [Eos] (the Dawn), and Aurora call forth the chariot of the day [Helios the Sun].” –Metamorphoses 4.627

“Phoebus [Helios] climbs steep Olympus from Oceanus and plucks the sky on winged horses.” –Ovid Fasti 3.415

“The stars are now gliding into the life-giving springs of mighty Oceanus, and the bridles are jingling in the Titanian caves [of Helios the Sun]; hastened by the golden-haired Horae (Hours) Sol [Helios the Sun] puts on his diadem of myriad rays and the corselet woven of twelve stars and bound by the belt which athwart the rain-clouds shows for men its many hued bow. Then above the earth and above the horns of the eastern mount he shone forth, and drew a train of light over the sparkling waves.” –Valerius Flaccus 4.90

“[It was] as though they drew nigh the presence of the Radiant God [Helios the Sun] and the very citadel of light eternal, so bright are the rays with which the palace [of King Aeetes of Kolkhis] gleams. There [depicted on the walls of the palace] iron Atlas stands in Oceanos, the wave swelling and breaking on his knees; but the god himself [Helios the Sun] on high hurries his shining steeds across the old man’s body, and spreads light about the curving sky; behind with smaller wheel follows his sister [Selene the Moon] and the crowded Pleiades and the fires whose tresses are wet with dripping rain [the Hyades].” –Valerius Flaccus 5.408

“The sky’s furthest bounds … whereon Sol [Helios the Sun] looks when he issues from the eastern gate.” –Thebaid 1.156

"Now day o’erwhelms the stars, and from the low and level main Titan [Helios the Sun] wheels heavenward his dripping steeds, and down from the expanse of air falls the sea that the chariot bore up.” –Achilleid 1.242

“Day arising from Oceanus set free the world from dank enfolding shades, and the father of the flashing light [Helios the Sun] upraised his torch still dimmed by the neighbouring gloom and moist with sea-water not yet shaken off.” –Achilleid 2.1

II. HELIOS THE DAYTIME SUN

"Tireless Helios who is like the deathless gods. As he rides his chariot, he shines upon men and deathless gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face: a rich, fine-spun garment glows upon his body and flutters in the wind: and stallions carry him. Then, when he has stayed his golden-yoked chariot and horses, he rests there upon the highest point of heaven, until he marvellously drives them down again through heaven to Okeanos." -Homeric Hymn XXXI to Helios

"Great Helios who begets the fierce rays of the sun.” –Pindar Olympian 7 ep3-ep4

"Titan [Helios] shines strongly” -Greek Lyric II The Anacreontea Frag 46

"Helios, cleaving the ageless vault of heaven." -Greek Lyric IV Euripides Frag 2

“Golden Titan [Helios], whose eternal eye with matchless sight illumines all the sky. Native, unwearied in diffusing light, and to all eyes the object of delight: Lord of the seasons, beaming light from far, sonorous, dancing in thy four-yoked car. With thy right hand the source of morning light, and with thy left the father of the night. Agile and vigorous, venerable Sun, fiery and bright around the heavens you run ... borne by lucid steeds ... Bright eye, that round the world incessant flies, doomed with fair fulgid rays to set and rise ... of steeds the ruler, and of life the light: with sounding whip four fiery steeds you guide, when in the glittering car of day you ride.” –Orphic Hymn 8 to Helius

"Phoibos [Helios the Sun], who, from the summit of his chariot, sets the world aflame with his dazzling rays, Phoibos, a mighty deity amongst the gods and adored amongst mortals." -Aristophanes Birds 563

“He [Orpheus] sang of … how the Astra (Stars), Selene (Moon), and travelling Helios (Sun) keep faithfully to their stations in the heavens.” –Argonautica 1.498

“For verily through them all [the constellations of the zodiac] Helios the Sun passes in yearly course, as he drives his mighty furrow, and now to one, now to another he draws near, now as he rises and anon as he sets, and ever another star looks upon another morn.” – Phaenomena 748

“But even deities have their laws: in thraldom the swift choir of the Astra (Stars), in thraldom is wandering Luna [Selene the Moon], not unbidden is the light whose path so oft returns [Helios the Sun].” –Silvae 3.3.53
http://www.theoi.com/Ouranos/Ophion.html

The TITANIDES were the six daughters of Ouranos and Gaia, the female counterparts of the Titanes. They remained neutral in the Titan-War and, unlike their brothers, were not cast into Tartaros.

After the War Themis married Zeus and assumed an important position as his counsellor and goddess of assemblies, Tethys remained with her husband Okeanos in the river Ocean, Mnemosyne was loved by Zeus and bore him the nine Mousai with whom she dwelt on Olympos, Theia went to live in the palace of her son Helios the Sun, Rhea retreated to Phrygia and was worshipped as the Mother of the Gods, and lastly Phoibe gifted the oracle of Delphoi to her grandson Apollon and then presumably went to dwell with him and her daughter Leto on Olympos.

Parents

(1) OURANOS & GAIA (Theogony 116, Apollodorus 1.2, Diodorus Siculus 5.66.1)
(2) A KOURETE & TITAIA (Diodorus Siculus 5.66.1)

Names of the Elder Titanides

(1) THEIA, RHEA, THEMIS, MNEMOSYNE, PHOIBE, TETHYS (Theogony 116)
(2) THEIA, RHEA, THEMIS, MNEMOSYNE, PHOIBE, TETHYS, DIONE (Apollodorus 1.2)
(3) RHEA, THEMIS, MNEMOSYNE, PHOIBE, TETHYS (Diodorus Siculus 5.66.1)
(2) RHEA, THEMIS, MNEMOSYNE, DIONE (Hyginus Pref)
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NAMES OF TITANIDES (ELDER & YOUNGER)

ANKHIALE The younger Titanis-goddess of the drawing of heat. She was the wife of Hekateros the titan of hands and fingers and the mother of the metal-working Daktyloi.
ASTERIA The younger Titanis-goddess of (fire?). She was pursued by Zeus and to escape him leapt into the sea and transformed herself into the island of Delos.
ASTRAIA The younger Titanis-goddess of justice. She shines in the heavens as the constellation Virgo.
AURA The younger Titanis-goddess of the breeze. She was a virgin huntress who was raped by Dionysos.
DIONE One of the younger Titanides loved by Zeus. She was the mother or foster-mother of Aphrodite.
EOS The younger Titanis-goddess of the dawn..
EURYNOME One of the younger Titanides and a wife of the Titan-King Ophion. She and her husband were deposed by Kronos and Rhea. Eurynome later become a love of Zeus and mother of the Kharites.
HEKATE The younger Titanis-goddess of witchcraft. She was a firm ally of Zeus in the Titan-War and was granted many privileges by the god.
KLYMENE The younger Titanis-goddess of fame and infamy.
LETO The younger Titanis-goddess of being unseen. She was persecuted relentlessly by Hera during her pregnancy but successfully gave birth to the twin-gods Apollon and Artemis.
METIS The younger Titanis-goddess of wisdom. She was a lover and ally of Zeus during the Trojan War who gave Kronos a draught to make him disgorge his children. She was later swallowed by Zeus who heard a prophecy that their child would depose him.
MNEMOSYNE The elder Titanis-goddess of goddess of memory, words and language. She was loved by Zeus and became mother of the nine Mousai (Muses).
MOUSAI, THE ELDER Three elder Titanides who were goddesses of music and song.
PHOIBE The elder Titanis-goddess of answering intellect. She was a keeper of the oracle at Delphoi, which she gifted to her grandson Apollon.
RHEA The Queen of the Titanes and the Titanis-goddess of the fertility of the female body. She was forced to hide her son Zeus from the jaws of her husband Kronos. Rhea was honoured during the reign of Zeus as the great mother of the gods and a queen of the mountains.
STYX The younger Titanis-goddess of the great River Styx in Haides. She was a firm ally of Zeus in the Titan-War and brought to his side her four powerful offspring. He made her the goddess of the great oath of the gods.
TETHYS The elder Titanis-goddess of nursing the young and of the underground sources of fresh-water. She was the foster-mother of Hera during the Titan-War.
THEIA The elder Titanis goddess of sight and by extension of the value placed on gold, silver and gems. She dwelt with her son Helios the Sun in the far East.
THEMIS The elder Titanis-goddess of law and custom. She was a wife of Zeus and mother of the Horai and Thriai.

See also THE TITANES (the male Titanes)
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"But afterwards she [Gaia] lay with Ouranos and bare deep-swirling Okeanos, Koios and Krios and Hyperion and Iapetos, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoibe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Kronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire." -Theogony 116f

"[Ouranos] fathered other sons on Ge, namely the Titanes: Okeanos, Koios, Hyperion, Kreios, Iapetos, and Kronos the youngest; also daughters called Titanides: Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoibe, Dione, Theia." -Apollodorus 1.1-2

“The Titanes had their dwelling in the land about Knosos, at the place where even to this day men point out foundations of a house of Rhea and a cypress grove which has been consecrated to her from ancient times. The Titanes numbered six men and five women, being born, as certain writers of myths relate, of Ouranos and Ge, but according to others, of one of the Kouretes and Titaia, from whom as their mother they derive the name they have. The males were Kronos, Hyperion, Koios, Iapetos, Krios and Okeanos, and their sisters were Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoibe and Tethys [he omits Theia]. Each one of them was the discover of things of benefit to mankind, and because of the benefaction they conferred upon all men they were accorded honours and everlasting fame.” –Diodorus Siculus 5.66.1

“Of the female Titanes [Mnemosyne invented words and Themis taught man divination and law] ... And so these gods [the Titanes], by reason of the many benefactions which they conferred upon the life of man, were not only accorded immortal honours, but it was also believed that they were the first to make their home on Mount Olympos after they had been translated from among men.” –Diodorus Siculus 5.67.3

"From Aether [Ouranos] and Terra [Gaia] [were born]: ... Themis ... Hyperion and Polus [Koios], Saturnus [Kronos], Ops [Rhea], Moneta [Mnemosyne], Dione." -Hyginus Pref

Sources:

* Hesiod, Theogony - Greek Epic C8th-7th BC
* Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd BC
* Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History - Greek History C1st BC
* Hyginus, Fabulae - Latin Mythography C2nd AD

Chronos, I wanted to commment on greek myth on parentage. Posiden might not necessarily have been Atlas `s Father, as illustrated by Dr Janice Siegel
I. HEROIC CONCEPTIONS

Because the mythic hero must be able to cross the boundaries that separate our world from that of the gods, to make accessible to mortals that wondrous but forbidden world, the mythic hero must have a mythic passport, i.e., divine parentage (something the established "pattern" waters down to include "royal parentage" ). This commingling of divine and mortal will allow him to act beyond the ordinary limits of humanity, an essential characteristic of the mythic hero. Divine conceptions of mythic heroes may be accomplished in several ways. The trickster-god motif is used by a god when he disguises himself as a woman's husband in order to gain access to her sexually. She then has intercourse with her real husband and eventually gives birth to twins of different fathers. This is not an uncommon tale in classical mythology, but it does not offer any great opportunity to artists, since an illustration of the moment of such a heroic conception would show only what appeared to be man and wife. Heracles, the model mythic hero for today's talk, is the product of such a union between his mother, Alcmene and Zeus, king of the Greek pantheon. Born Alcides, our mythic hero is the son of Zeus and is therefore half-divine; his twin Iphicles is the mortal offspring of Alcmene's husband, Amphytrion. Heracles' paternity will be a never-ending source of pain during his life, for as the bastard son of Zeus he will continually suffer in the throes of Hera's jealousy.

Some versions of Leda's story - another old chestnut - use the same trickster-god format: that Zeus lay with her in the guise of her husband, followed by her actual husband, and she then gave birth to two sets of twins, Helen and Clytemnestra and Polydeuces (or Pollux) and Castor, the first of each set being the divine child of Zeus and the other the mortal child of Leda's husband Tyndareos. But another, more spectacular version of this heroic conception has been popularized by artists ancient and modern:
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics/lectures/MythicHero/mythichero.shtm

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Concerning the parentage of Atlas, who is so important in the Atlantis story, we have this quote from Bullfinch:
"Atlas is a scion of the Titans, the Greek race of giants, and the son of Iapetus and the nymph Clymene. He is the father of the Hesperides, the Hyades and the Pleiades. He was also thought to be the king of legendary Atlantis ("Land of Atlas")."
Then there is this one from Critias (the Benjamin Jowett translation):

"He (Poseidon, with Cleito)also begat and brought up five pairs of twin male children; and dividing the island of Atlantis into ten portions, he gave to the first-born of the eldest pair his mother's dwelling and the surrounding allotment, which was the largest and best, and made him king over the rest; the others he made princes, and gave them rule over many men, and a large territory. And he named them all; the eldest, who was the first king, he named Atlas, and after him the whole island and the ocean were called Atlantic."

Classic Greek mythology clearly states that Iapetus and the nymph Clymene were Atlas' parents, not Poseidon and Cleito. In fact, Poseidon was either a contemporary of Atlas or born after him. Of course, prior to the war between the Titans and the Greek gods, Poseidon was one of the children swallowed by his father Chronos, swallowed at birth, I might add, and hardly in any position to father anyone. Poseidon was not released until the war and by this time Atlas was already in command of the Titan forces. It is worth noting that, in the mythology I have seen, only Plato makes this mistake, if it is a mistake...

I submit that the name "Atlas" was a common name, there was more than one Atlas, and modern researchers only link the original Atlas with the story of Atlantis because they are confused by the usage.

That said, when Plato mentions "after him the whole island and the ocean were called Atlantic..." it might be a case of ascribing easy answers to complex solutions. According to the legend, Cleito and her parents were already living on the island before Poseidon reached it, the island could have already had a different name, been named after the original Titan, perhaps even named after someone else with a name similar to "Atlas."

I'm confident that Atlantis existed, that there was perhaps a large island in the Atlantic, or something similar in the vicinity of Gibralter. I also believe, though, that the account itself might be open to some errors, both by the tellers of the story, and by it's translators. The essential truth, though, has to be something along the lines of what we have always believed about it, else that truth wouldn't have been so stressed by greatly by Plato.

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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Aabo%3Atlg%2C0020%2C001&query=init.&vers=original

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mousaôn Helikôniadôn+ archômeth' aeidein,
haith' Helikônos+ echousin oros mega te zatheon te
kai te peri krênên ioeidea poss' hapaloisin
orcheuntai kai bômon eristheneos Kroniônos.
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kai te loessamenai terena chroa Permêssoio
ê Hippou krênês ê Olmeiou zatheoio
akrotatôi Helikôni chorous enepoiêsanto
kalous, himeroentas: eperrôsanto de possin.
enthen apornumenai, kekalummenai êeri pollêi,
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ennuchiai steichon perikallea ossan hieisai,
humneusai Dia t' aigiochon kai potnian Hêrên
Argeïên, chruseoisi pedilois embebauian,
kourên t' aigiochoio Dios glaukôpin Athênên
Phoibon t' Apollôna kai Artemin iocheairan
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êde Poseidaôna geêochon, ennosigaion,
kai Themin aidoiên helikoblepharon t' Aphroditên
Hêbên te chrusostephanon kalên te Diônên
Lêtô t' Iapeton te ide Kronon ankulomêtên
Êô t' Êelion te megan lampran te Selênên
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Gaian t' Ôkeanon te megan kai Nukta melainan
allôn t' athanatôn hieron genos aien eontôn.
hai nu poth' Hêsiodon kalên edidaxan aoidên,
arnas poimainonth' Helikônos hupo zatheoio.
tonde de me prôtista theai pros muthon eeipon,
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Mousai Olumpiades, kourai Dios aigiochoio:

poimenes agrauloi, kak' elenchea, gasteres oion,
idmen pseudea polla legein etumoisin homoia,
idmen d', eut' ethelômen, alêthea gêrusasthai.

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As it happens, the first age of Titans weren't even known as Titans, but rather the Protogoni:
http://theoi.com/Khaos/Protogonoi.html

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THE PROTOGONOI

Greek Singular:
Greek Plural:
PrwtogonoV
PrwtogenoV
Prwtogonoi
Prwtogenoi Transliteration: Prôtogonos
Prôtogenos
Prôtogonoi
Prôtogenoi Translation: First Born /
Primeval

THE PROTOGONOI were the first born immortals whose forms made up the very fabric of the universe. They emerged at creation.

Parents

The first of the Protogonoi emerged from NOTHINGNESS, and rest were the offspring of these

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NAMES OF THE PROTOGONOI

AITHER The Protogonos of the Mists of Light. His bright shining element separated from Erebos the Dark and rose to the highest places of the sky as the shining firmament.
ANANKE The Protogonos of Inevitability, Compulsion and Necessity. She was the mate of Khronos (Time) and like him was an incorporeal, serpentine being who encircled the entire universe.
EREBOS The Protogonos of the Mists of Darkness. His dark airy element separated from Khaos the Air and sunk into the caverns of the earth and the dark underworld beyond.
EROS The Protogonos of Generation. He was also called Phanes or Protogonos to distinguish him from Eros son of Aphrodite. He was one of the very first gods to emerge at creation.
GAIA The Protogenos of the Earth itself. "Mother Earth" emerged at the very beginning of creation. Her anthropomorphic form (which could never fully separate itself from the earth) was that of a matronly woman.
HEMERA The Protogonos of the Day - a mantle of Bright Mist that spread itself across the sky and pushed back Night (from whom she was sprung). Her anthropomorphic form was that of a woman clothed in sky-blue.
KHAOS The Protogonos who was the Air which filled the gap between heaven and earth. She emerged at the very beginning of creation.
KHRONOS The Protogonos of Time who was the very first being to emerge self-formed. He was a three-headed, incorporeal being with serpentine tail who circled the entire breadth of the universe.
NESOI, THE The Protogonoi of the Islands. Theire rocky forms broke off from Gaia and sunk into the seas.
NYX The Protogenos of Night - a mantle of Dark Mists that spreads itself across the sky. She was sprung from Khaos the Air. Her anthropomorphic form was that of a woman clothed in a star-spangled mantle.
OKEANOS The Protogonos of the great earth-encircling Fresh-Water Stream from which sprung every river, spring and cloud. He was the first born son of fiery Ouranos and heavy Gaia. His anthropomorphic form was that of a man with the tail of a serpentine fish in place of legs.
OURANOS The Protogonos of the solid dome of the Sky. He emerged from Gaia the Earth, as his light, fiery element separated from the earthy compounds.
OUREA, THE The Protogonoi of the Mountains. Their rocky forms arose out of Gaia the Earth.
PHANES The Protogonos of Generation. He was born from the silver egg of the universe at the beginning of time and set in order the universe. Phanes was also called the first-born Eros or Protogonos (First Born). According to some Zeus swallowed this god with the help of Nyx to absorb through him sovereignty and control of the universe.
PHUSIS The Protogonos of Nature. "Mother Nature" was one of the first beings to emerge at creation.
PONTOS The Protogonos of the Sea. He emerged Gaia the Earth, as the liquids of the sea separated from the earthy compounds.
TARTAROS The Protogonos of the great stormy Hell-Pit beneath the earth. He took shape at the very beginning of creation.
TETHYS The Protogonos of the Fresh-Water flowing within the caverns of the earth (or Mud). She was born of Ouranos the Sky and Gaia the Earth.
THALASSA The Protogonos of the Sea-Surface. She was sprung from Aither (the Upper Air) and Hemera (Mists of Day).
THESIS The Protogonos of Creation. She was also known as the primeval Tethys, a mud-like mixture of elements that existed at the beginning of time.

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KHRONOS

Greek: CronoV Transliteration: Khronos Translation: Time Eternal
Other Names: Aiwn Transliteration: Aiôn Translation: Eon / Time
Latin Spelling: Chronus

KRHONOS was the PROTOGONOS of time who emerged self-formed at the very beginning of time. He was an incorporeal being, serpentine in form with three heads - that of a man, a bull, and a lion. He and his mate, the serpentine Ananke (Inevitability), entwined the world-egg in their coils and split it apart, forming the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky.

Khronos remained as the remote, incorporeal god of time who encircled the universe, driving the rotation of the heavens and the eternal passage of time. He occasionally appeared to Zeus in the form of an elderly man with long white hair and beard, but for the most part he remained a force beyond the reach and power of the younger gods.

Parents

(1) NONE he was the first being to emerge at the creation of the universe (Dionysiaca 7.7, 12.34)
(2) GAIA (Orphic Hymn 12 to Heracles)
(3) HYDROS (or primeval OKEANOS) & THESIS (or primeval TETHYS) (Orphic Fragment 54 & 57)

Offspring

GAIA

Greek: Gaia Gaih Gh Transliteration: Gaia Gaiê Gê Translation: Earth
Other Names: Cqon Transliteration: Khthon Translation: Earth
Titles: Mhter Pantwn
Kourotrofh Transliteration: Mater Pantôn
Kourotrophe Translation: Mother of All
Nurse of the Young
Latin Spelling: Gaea Roman Name: Terra / Tellus / Natura

GAIA was Mother Earth, an ancient primeval goddess or PROTOGENOS who emerged at the creation of the universe, second only to Khaos (Air). She was depicted as a buxom, matronly woman, shown half risen from the earth, unable to completely separate herself from her element.
The Earth, in the ancient cosmology, was a disk surrounded by the river Okeanos. It was called the foundation of all, because not only trees, men, and animals, but even the hills, sea and the solid dome of the sky were supported by it.

Parents

NONE (the second being to emerge at creation) (Theogony 116)

Offspring (First Brood)

(1) OURANOS, THE OUREA, PONTOS (without a mate) (Theogony 126)
(2) THE TITANES (OKEANOS, KOIOS, KRIOS, HYPERION, IAPETOS, KRONS), THE TITANIDES (THEIA, RHEIA, THEMIS, MNEMOSYNE, TETHYS (by Ouranos) (Theogony 135f, Apollodorus 1.2, Diodorus Siculus 5.66.1)
(3) DIONE (by Ouranos) (Apollodorus 1.2)

(3) THE KYKLOPES, THE HEKATONKHEIRES (by Ouranos) (Theogony 135f, Titanomachia Frag 1, Apollodorus 1.2)
(4) THE ERINYES, THE GIGANTES, THE MELIAI (by the blood of Ouranos) (Theogony 184)
(5) THE ERINYES, THE GIGANTES (by the blood of Ouranos) (Apollodorus 1.3, 1.34)
(6) NEREUS, THAUMAS, PHORKYS, KETO, EURYBIA (by Pontos) (Theogony 232f, Apollodorus 1.10)
(7) TYPHOEUS (by Tartaros) (Theogony 819f, Apollodorus 1.39)

Offspring (Other Gods)

(1) SEILENOS (Dionysiaca 29.243)

Offspring (Beasts)

(1) AREION (Pausanias 8.25.5)
(2) PYTHON (Metamorphoses 1.438, Hyginus Fab 140)
(3) OPHIOTAUROS (Ovid Fasti 3.793)

Offspring (Giants & Men)

Greek: Aiqhr Transliteration: Aithêr Translation: Light / Upper Air
Greek: Akmwn Transliteration: Akmôn Translation: Untiring / Anvil
Latin Spelling: Aether / Acmon English Spelling: Ether

AITHER was the PROTOGONOS (first-born elemental god) of the bright and glowing upper air(as opposed to the gloomy lower Aer of the earth). His mother Nyx (Night) drew the dark mists of Erebos across the sky below him to create the darkness of night, while his sister Hemera (Day) drew away these mists to reveal his shining form and bring day.
Night and day were regarded as independent of the sun in the ancient theogonies.

Parents

(1) EREBOS & NYX (Theogony 124, De Natura Deorum 3.17)
(2) EREBOS (Aristophanes Birds 1189)
(3) KHRONOS & ANANKE (Orphic Argonautica 12, Orphic Fragment 54)
(4) KHRONOS (Orphic Rhapsodies 66)
(5) KHAOS (Hyginus Pref)

Offspring

(1) OURANOS (Alcman Frag 61, Callimachus Frag 498, De Natura Deorum 3.17)
(2) GAIA, OURANOS, THALASSA (by Hemera) (Hyginus Pref)
(3) Various but Hyginus confuses him with Ouranos (by Gaia) (Hyginus Pref)

ANANKE

Greek: Anagkh
Anagkaih Transliteration: Ananke
Anankaie Translation: Necessity / Inevitability / Compulsion
Other Names: Adrhsteia Transliteration: Adrêsteia Translation: Inescapable
Roman Name: Necessitas

ANANKE was the PROTOGONOS of inevitability, compulsion and necessity. She emerged self-formed at the very beginning of time - an incorporeal, serpentine being whose outstretched arms encompassed the breadth of the universe. From the time she first appeared Ananke was entwined in the serpentine coils of her mate, the time-god Khronos. Together they surrounded the primal egg of solid matter in their constricting coils and split it into its constituent parts (earth, heaven and sea) and so brought about the creation of the ordered universe.

Ananke and Khronos remained forever entwined as the universe-encircling forces of fate and time, driving the rotation of the heavens and the neverending passage of time. They were far beyond the reach of the younger gods whose fates they were said to control.

Parents

(1) NONE, she and her mate Khronos (Time) were the first beings to emerge at the beginning of time
(2) HYDROS (or primeval OKEANOS) & THESIS (or primeval TETHYS) (Orphic Fragment 54)

Offspring

EREBOS

Greek: EreboV Transliteration: Erebos Translation: Darkness
Other Names: SkotoV Transliteration: Skotos Translation: Darkness
Latin Spelling: Erebus Scotus

EREBOS was the ancient entity or PROTOGENOS of darkness, the husband of Nyx (Night). His thick mists of darkness were said to envelop the edges of the world, and to fill the dark places beneath the earth.

His wife, Nyx, drew the dark mists of Erebos across the heavens bringing night to the world while his daughter Hemera scattered them to bring day: - the one blocking out the light of Aither (the bright and shining upper-air) and the other clearing the darkness to let Aither lagain ight the earth. (The shining Aither or atmosphere and not the Sun was regarded as the source of day in the ancient cosmogonies).

Erebos' name was often used to describe the cavernous underworld of Hades.

Parents

(1) KHAOS (no father) (Theogony 123, Hyginus Pref))
(2) KHRONOS & ANANKE (Orphic Fragment 54)

Offspring

(1) AITHER, HEMERA (by Nyx) (Theogony 124)
(2) AITHER (Aristophanes Birds 1189)
(3) MOIRA (Fatum), GERAS (Senectus), THANATOS (Mors), LETHE (Letum), HYPNOS (Somnus),
SOPHROSYNE (Continentia), THE ONEIROI (Somnia), HIMEROS (Amor), EPIPHRON, PORPHYRION, EPAPHOS, ERIS (Discordia), AKHLYS (Miseria), ?? (Petulantia), NEMESIS, EUPHROSYNE,
PHILOTES (Amicitia), ELEOS (Misericordia), STYX, THE MOIRAI (Parcae), THE HESPERIDES (by Nyx) (Hyginus Pref (Latin in brackets - NB Greek Equivalents in Capitals where known))
(4) AITHER (Aether), HEMERA (Dies), HIMEROS (Amor), APATE (Dolus), ?? (Metus), PONOS (Labor), PHTHONOS (Invidentia), MOIRA (Fatum), GERAS (Senectus), THANATOS (Mors), ?? (Tenebrae),
AKHLYS (Miseria), ?? (Querella), ?? (Gratia), ?? (Fraus), ?? (Obstinacia), THE MOIRAI (Parcae),
THE HESPERIDES, THE ONEIROI (Somnia) (by Nyx) (De Natura Deorum 3.17 (Latin in brackets - NB Greek Equivalents in Capitals where known))

HIMEROS

Greek: 'ImeroV Transliteration: Himeros Translation: Desire
Latin Spelling Himerus

HIMEROS was the god of desire, and one of the young EROTES (winged Love-Gods). When Aphrodite emerged newly born from the sea, Himeros was the first god to welcome her and became her constant companion.
Himeros was depicted as a winged youth, like the rest of the Erotes, and was frequently depicted in the company of Eros the god of love and Pothos the god of passion.

Parents

(1) APHRODITE (born pregnant with him and Eros) (perhaps hinted at in Theogony 176)
(2) APHRODITE (Aeschylus The Supliants 1039)

HIMEROS & PARIS (Image K33.1) Himeros leads Paris to Helene. Pothos and Eros are depicted flying above (not shown).

HEMERE

Greek: 'Hmerh Transliteration: Hêmerê Translation: Day
Other Names: Amar Transliteration: Amar Translation: Day
Latin Spelling: Hemera Roman Name: Dies

HEMERA was the goddess of the day and one of the primeval PROTOGONOI (the first born elemental gods). She married her brother Aither (the bright and shining upper-atmosphere).

Parents

(1) EREBOS & NYX (Theogony 124, De Natura Deorum 3.17)
(2) EREBOS (Alcman Frag 5)
(3) KHRONOS & NYX (Bacchylides Frag 7)
(4) KHAOS (Hyginus Pref)

Offspring

(1) GAIA, OURANOS, THALASSA (by Aither) (Hyginus Pref)
(2) OURANOS (by Aither) (De Natura Deorum 3.17)

KHAOS

Greek: CaoV CaeoV Transliteration: Khaos Khaeos Translation: Gap / Void
Other Names: Ahr Transliteration: Aêr Translation: Air
Latin Spelling: Chaos

KHAOS was the first of the PROTOGENOI (ancient elemental gods) to emerge at the creation of the universe. She was followed in quick succession by Gaia (Earth), Tartaros (the Underworld) and Eros (Love the life-bringer).
Khaos was the lower atmosphere of the earth - air, mist and fog (her name means gap or void - for she filled the gap between heaven and earth). She was the mother or grandmother of the other incorporeal deities of the air: Nyx (Night), Erebos (Darkness), Aither (Light) and Hemera (Day), and the various Daimones. She was also a goddess of fate like her daughter Nyx and grand-daughters the Moirai.
Later authors defined her as the chaotic mix of elements that existed in the primeval universe, but this was not the original meaning.

Parents

(1) NONE (the first being to emerge at creation) (Theogony 116))
(2) KHRONOS & ANANKE (Orphic Argonautica 12, Orphic Fragment 54)
(3) KHRONOS (Orphic Rhapsodies 66)

Offspring

(1) EREBOS, NYX (without a mate) (Theogony 124)
(NB The Theogony says that Gaia, Tartaros and Eros came into being after Khaos, this passage is often misquoted by calling them her offspring)
(2) THE BIRDS (by Himeros) (Aristophanes Birds 685)
(3) EREBOS, NYX, AITHER, HEMERA (Hyginus Pref)
(3) THE MOIRAI (Quintus Smyrnaeus 3.755)
(4) HIMEROS (Halieutica 4.10)

KHAOS & THE THEOGONY OF THE GODS

"Verily at the first Khaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia (Earth), the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus ... From Khaos came forth Erebos and black Nyx (Night)." -Theogony 116

THE NESOI

Greek Singular:
Greek Plural: NhsoV
Nhsoi Transliteration: Nêsos
Nêsoi Latin Spelling: Islands

THE NESOI were the goddesses of islands. Each island was said to have its own personification. They were numbered amongst the ancient elemental gods called PROTOGENOI.
The Nesoi (Islands) were said to have once been Mountains (Ourea) but Poseidon smote them and cast into the sea with his trident.

Parents

NYX

Greek: Nux Transliteration: Nyx Translation: Night
Roman Name: Nox

NYX was the ancient personification of night and one of the PROTOGENOI (first born gods). She rode across the sky in a two horse chariot drawing her dark mists across the sky. Daughter of Air (Khaos), she was the mother of Light (Aither) and Day (Hemera) and a large family of spirits. One of the most ancient of goddesses it was said that even Zeus held her in awe and feared doing anything to displease her.

Nyx was depicted as a winged goddess.

Parents

OKEANOS

Greek: WkeanoV
OgenoV Transliteration: Ôkeanos
Ogenos Translation: River-Ocean
Latin Spelling: Oceanus

OKEANOS was the great river that flowed in a circle around the earth and the source of all fresh water - rivers, rain and wells. He was one of the TITANES but, unlike his siblings, he was also a cosmological god - as both the massive river Okeanos and its anthropomorphic manifestation.
Like his sons the River-gods he was depicted as a horned god with the tail of a serpentine fish.

Parents

OURANOS & GAIA (Theogony 133, Apollodorus 1.2, Diodorus Siculus 5.66.1)

Offspring

(1) THE OKEANIDES & THE POTAMOI (by Tethys) (Theogony 133, et al)
(2) THE POTAMOI (Diodorus Siculus 4.69.1)
(3) THE KERKOPES (by Theia daughter of Memnon) (The Cercopes Frag 1)
(4) TRIPTOLEMOS (by Gaia) (Apollodorus 1.32)

"She [Gaia] lay with Ouranos, and bore him deep-swirling Okeanos the ocean-stream." -Theogony 133-134

OURANOS

Greek: OuranoV Transliteration: Ouranos Translation: Sky / Heaven
Other Names: AkmonideV Transliteration: Akmonides Translation: Son of Akmon (the Untiring / Anvil)
Latin Spelling: Uranus
Acmonides Roman Name: Caelum

OURANOS was the solid dome of the sky and one of the ancient element gods called PROTOGENOI. He was the first ruler of the universe but was castrated and deposed by his son Kronos.

Parents

(1) GAIA (no father) (Theogony 126, Dionysiaca 27.50)
(2) AITHER & GAIA (Titanomachia Frag 2)
(3) AKMON (Alcman Frag 61, Callimachus Frag 498)
(4) AITHER & HEMERA (Hyginus Pref, De Natura Deorum 3.17)

Offspring

THE OUREA

Greek Singular:
Greek Plural: OuroV OroV
Ourea Transliteration: Ouros / Oros
Ourea Translation: Mountains
Roman Name: Numina Montanum Translation: Mountain-Gods

THE OUREA were the Mountains, gods numbered amongst the PROTOGENOI - the first born elemental gods. Each and every Mountain was said to have its own ancient bearded god.

Parents

GAIA (no father) (Theogony 129)

Names

The Boiotian KITHAIRON & HELIKON, the Phrygian TMOLOS & OLYMPOS, the Sikelian AITNA
(Very few Mountains were personified in myth)

PHANES

Greek: FanhV Transliteration: Phanês Translation: Time
Other Names: ErwV
PrwtogonoV
HrikepaioV
PrihpoV
Antaugh Transliteration: Erôs
Prôtogonos
Êrikepaios
Priêpos
Antaugê Translation: Love / Desire
First-Born
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PHANES was the PROTOGENOS (primeval god) of procreation and the generation of new life, the driving force behind reproduction in the early universe. He was hatched from the world egg when it was split into its constituent parts by the ancient gods Khronos (Time) and Ananke (Inevitability).

He was equated with the ancient, first-born god EROS, who served the same function in the Theogony of Hesiod.

Phanes was the first king of the universe who passed his sceptre of kingship to Nyx, his only child, who in turn gave it to her son Ouranos. It was taken from Ouranos forcibly by his son Kronos, who in turn lost it to Zeus, the final ruler of the universe. It was said that Zeus devoured Phanes whole in order to assume his primal power over all creation and redistribute it among a new generation of gods - the Olympians.

Phanes appeared as a beautiful golden winged deity but was incorporeal by nature and invisible even to the gods.

Parents

KHRONOS & ANANKE hatched him from the World Egg (Orphic Rhapsodies 66, Orphic Argonautica 12, Orphic Frag 54)

Offspring

NYX (Orphic Argonautica 12, Orphic Frag 101)

PHUSIS

Greek: FusiV Transliteration: Phusis Physis Translation: Nature
Greek: Prwtogeneia Transliteration: Prôtogeneia Translation: First-Born
Roman Name: Natura

PHUSIS was the PROTOGONOS of nature and one of the very first beings to emerge at the beginning of time.

She was sometimes identified with Gaia (Mother Earth).

Parents

PONTOS

Greek: PontoV Transliteration: Pontos Translation: Sea
Latin Spelling: Pontus

PONTOS was the Sea itself and one of the PROTOGENOI (first born gods). He was the father of all the most ancient of Sea-gods.

Parents

(1) GAIA (no father) (Theogony 130)
(2) AITHER & GAIA (Hyginus Pref)

Offspring

(1) NEREUS, THAUMAS, PHORKYS, KETO, EURYBIA (by Gaia) (Theogony 233, Apollodorus 1.10)
(2) THAUMAS (by Gaia), THE FISH (by Thalassa) (Hyginus Pref)
(3) AIGAION (by Gaia) (Titanomachia 3)
(4) THE TELKHINES (by Gaia) (Bacchylides Frag 52)

TARTAROS

Greek: TartaroV Transliteration: Tartaros Translation: Hell
Latin Spelling: Tartarus

TARTAROS was the PROTOGENOS (first born god) that personified the great stormy pit beneath the earth where the Titanes were imprisoned. He was probably conceived of as a great solid dome similar to Ouranos (the Sky) but opposite to him and lying instead beneath the earth rather than above it.
The name was often used as a synonym of Haides the underworld.

Parents

NONE (one of the first beings to emerge at creation) (Theogony 116)

Offspring

TYPHOEUS (by Gaia) (Theogony 820, Apollodorus 1.39)

"Verily at the first Khaos (Air) came to be, but next Gaia (Earth) ... and dim Tartaros in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth." -Theogony 116-119

TETHYS

Greek: ThquV Transliteration: Têthys Translation: Nurse / Grandmother / Aunt
Roman Name: Salacia

TETHYS was the TITANIS goddess of the nursing the young and of the underground flow of fresh water. She was the wife of Okeanos (the great fresh-water river that encircled the earth) and by him the mother of the three thousand Potamoi (Rivers) and Okeanides (Clouds). She was appropriately depicted attending the wedding of Thetis accompanied by Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth.

Tethys was depicted as a woman usually accompanied (as the mother of so many offspring) by Eileithyia the goddess of childbirth.

Parents

OURANOS & GAIA (Theogony 136, Apollodorus 1.2, Diodorus Siculus 5.66.1)

Offspring

(1) THE OKEANIDES & THE POTAMOI (Theogony 337, Hyginus Preface)
(2) THE POTAMOI (Diodorus Siculus 4.69.1)

"Tethys the lovely" -Theogony 136 & "Lady Tethys" -Theogony 368 & "Lovely-haired Tethys" -Theogony 929

"Tethys bore to Okeanos the swirling Potamoi .. She brought forth also a race apart of daughters." -Theogony 337-346

THALASSA

Greek: Qalassa
Qalassh
Qalatth Transliteration: Thalassa
Thalassê
Thalattê Translation: Sea
Roman Name: Mare

THALASSA was the Sea itself and one of the PROTOGENOI (first born gods). She was the female equivalent of Pontos.

Parents

AITHER & HEMERA (Hyginus Pref)

Offspring

(1) AIGAION (Ion of Chios Frag 741)
(2) THE TELKHINES, HALIA (Diodorus Siculus 5.55.1)
(3) APHRODITE (by the severed members of Ouranos) (Dionysiaca 12.43)
(4) THE FISHES (by Pontos) (Hyginus Pref)

"The narcissus, which Gaia made to grow at the will of Zeus ... to be a snare for the bloom-like girl [Persephone] - a marvellous, radiant flower. It was a thing of awe whether for deathless gods or mortal men to see: from its root grew a hundred blooms and it smelled most sweetly, so that wide Ouranos (Heaven) above and Gaia (Earth) and Thalassa's (Sea) salt swell laughed for joy." -Homeric Hymn II To Demeter 5-18

THESIS

Greek: QesiV
QetiV Transliteration: Thesis
Thetis Translation: Creation

THESIS was the PROTOGONOS of creation. She was the primeval form of Tethys, the Muddy mixture of elements from which all creation grew.

Parents

NONE, she emerged at the beginning of the universe

Offspring

KHRONOS, ANANKE (by Hydros or Okeanos) (Orphic Fragment 54 & 57)

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According to Hesiod, the word Titan seemed to be means "Strainer", because they strained and performed some presumptuous, fearful deed and the vengeance would come after it.

The exact number of the Titans varied from author to author, and they often included some of the children of the Titans. So there are at least two generations of Titans can be considered.

For a generation, the Titans shared the world, with Cronus as their leader. It was the Titans who created mankind. A number of the male Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus, when they chose to fight a war against the younger gods, known as the Olympians.

According to the Orphic myth, Zeus destroyed the Titans with his thunderbolts, because the Titans had murdered and devoured his son Zagreus (Dionysus). From the smouldering ashes, mankind were created.

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Cronus
Oceanus
Hyperion
Iapetus
Crius
Coeus

Rhea
Tethys
Theia
Themis
Phoebe
Mnemo

Apollodorus:

Cronus
Oceanus
Hyperion
Iapetus
Crius
Coeus

Rhea
Tethys
Theia
Themis
Phoebe
Mnemosyne
Dione

Diodorus Siculus:

Cronus
Oceanus
Hyperion
Iapetus
Crius
Coeus

Rhea
Tethys
Themis
Phoebe
Mnemosyne

Orphic:

Cronus
Oceanus
Hyperion
Iapetus
Crius
Caus
Phorcys

Rhea
Tethys
Theia
Themis
Phoebe
Mnemosyne
Dione

Quite a few authors listed Dione among the Titaness, though she was sometimes called an Oceanid.
http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/titans.html#Titans