FIRST AND SECOND ORDER Flashcards

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EREBUS & NYX

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Erebus: MAL, darkness
NYX: FEM, night

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HEMERA & AETHER

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HEMERA: Day
AETHER: Light

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TARTARUS

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Caves beneath the earth, born at the same time as Gaia

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PONTUS

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The Sea, Gaia’s son

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OURANUS

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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.

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CYCLOPES

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Triples from Gaia + Ouranos

BRONTES: thunder
STEROPES: lightning
ARGES: brightness

They side with Zeus

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HECATONCHEIRES

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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:

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GAIA + OURANUS OFFSPRING

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12 TITANS | CYCLOPES | HECATONCHEIRES

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GAIA + TARTARUS OFFSPRING

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TYPHON, the worst monster

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MOUNT OTHRYS

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Where Gaia toils to make the Scythe Cronus uses to castrate his father, Ouranus.

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TITAN MEANS…?

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STRIVING, STRAINING ONE

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OURANOS’S OFFSPRING

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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

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HOW DOES OURANOS DIE?

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Cronus uses the SCYTHE/SICKLE made by his mother Gaia to castrate him and banish him to the depths of the earth.

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RHEA

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Suggests to Gaia to go to Cronus to kill Ouranos. She gets with Cronus after but has her children eaten by him.

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KRONOS + RHEA OFFSPRING

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Hestia

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MELIAE

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The nymphs of the Ash Tree, born out of the blood from Ourano’s castration that fell on Gaia.

Zeus’s babysitters!

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AMALTHEA

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Zeus’s foster mother, half-goat half-woman, fed him goat milk and honey.