Showing posts with label Titans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Titans. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Echidna and Typhon

Echidna and Typhon produced the all mythical creatures. Typhon is the husband of Echidna and the last descendant of Titans. He is taller to stars in the sky and he is the most deadliest monster.

Titanomachy

Titanomachy is the battle between Gods and Titans which held over more than 10 years. Cronus, the king of the Titans, ate all his children because he thought that children will overthrow him and take the control of the world. But Rhea, his wife, brought the youngest one, Zeus, into a cave and raised him up. After he grew up he got a poisonous wine and gave it to Cronus. Being immortal, the other children of Cronus can’t be killed. So they raised in the Cronus stomach. After Cronus vomited the others, they united with Zeus and stand against the Titans. Then the War began. The war between Titans and their offspring, Gods. Cronus lead the Titans consisting of his eleven siblings while Zeus lead the Gods consisting with his siblings. Hecatonchires (Hundred-handed), the Gigantes (Giants) and Cyclopes too joined with Zeus because they were imprisoned by Titans. Cyclopes made the Zeus famous weapon lightning blot. Hecatonchires made a trident for Poseidon which can shake the earth and shatter any object other than the Earth, a invisible helmet for Hades which gave invisibility to the wearer.

Finally the Gods won from the battle after imprisoned the Cronus and rest of the Titans in the Tartarus except the titan Atlas. He was punished by giving him the task to hold the earth by his shoulders forever. Hecatonchires was assigned to guard the Tartarus, the deepest pot in the underworld.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Rhea

Rhea is the mother of Olympian Gods and goddesses and wife of the Cronus, Queen of the Titans. She was daughter of Uranus and Gaia. She was the Titaness  of marriage, women and birth, which are lately ruled by her daughter, Hera.

Cronus

Before the time of Gods, the Titans ruled the world. Cronus was the king of the Titans. His mother is Gaia the titan of the Nature. He is the Titan of the Earth and youngest of the titans generation. Gods were children of Cronus including Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera etc. Cronus was held imprisoned in Tartarus, a hell pit below the underworld, by his own sons Zeus, Hades and Poseidon.

Rhea is the mother of Gods and is wife of the Cronus. Cronus was scared that he was going to overthrown by his own sons like he overthrew his own father, Uranus. So he ate all the children except Zeus. Rhea tricked the Cronus by giving him a rock to eat when Zeus was born. After Zeus grew up, he gave a poisoned vine to his mother and asked her to give it to his father to vomit his brothers and sisters. Cronus was tricked by Rhea and he vomited all of them. Then they made the Zeus the king of Olympus and began the war between Gods and Titans.

Cronus pictures are too disgusting. So I’m not going to include a picture of him. smile_wink