FIRST AND SECOND ORDER Flashcards
EREBUS & NYX
Erebus: MAL, darkness
NYX: FEM, night
HEMERA & AETHER
HEMERA: Day
AETHER: Light
TARTARUS
Caves beneath the earth, born at the same time as Gaia
PONTUS
The Sea, Gaia’s son
OURANUS
The Sky, Gaia’s son + lover. He didn’t like his kids and sent the CYCLOPES and HECATONCHIRES he didn’t like back into Gaia’s womb.
CYCLOPES
Triples from Gaia + Ouranos
BRONTES: thunder
STEROPES: lightning
ARGES: brightness
They side with Zeus
HECATONCHEIRES
Gaia loved them, but Ouranus could not stand to look at them. They play an important rule in the succession of both Cronus and Zeus.
COTTUS:
GYGES:
BRIAREUS:
GAIA + OURANUS OFFSPRING
12 TITANS | CYCLOPES | HECATONCHEIRES
GAIA + TARTARUS OFFSPRING
TYPHON, the worst monster
MOUNT OTHRYS
Where Gaia toils to make the Scythe Cronus uses to castrate his father, Ouranus.
TITAN MEANS…?
STRIVING, STRAINING ONE
OURANOS’S OFFSPRING
Aphrodite is born out of his castrated genitals, which Cronus throws into the sea.
Meliae: nymphs born out of his blood.
The Furies, who punished the worst crimes
HOW DOES OURANOS DIE?
Cronus uses the SCYTHE/SICKLE made by his mother Gaia to castrate him and banish him to the depths of the earth.
RHEA
Suggests to Gaia to go to Cronus to kill Ouranos. She gets with Cronus after but has her children eaten by him.
KRONOS + RHEA OFFSPRING
Hestia