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Bacchus Ceres Diana Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Minerva Neptune Pluto Venus Vesta Vulcan
Amun Anubis Aten Atum Babi Bastet Bes Geb Hapi hathor heqet Horus Isis Khepri Khnum Khonsu Maat Nephthys Nut Osiris Ptah Ra Seshat Seth Shu Sobek Thoth
Alfheim Baldur Freya Freyr Frigg Heimdallr Helheim Idun Jotunheim Loki Nerthus Njord Odin Thor Tyr
Aengus Arawn Badb Brigid Cailleach Ceridwen Cernunnos Cu Chulainn Dagda Danu Gwydion Herne the Hunter Lugh Medb Morrigan Neit Nuada Taliesin Taranis
Chalchiuhtlicue Coatlicue Huitzilopochtli Mictlantecuhtli Mixcoatl Ometeotl Quetzalcoatl Tezcatlipoca Tlaloc Tonatiuh Xipe Totec Xochiquetzal Xolotl
Amaterasu Ame no Uzume Benzaiten Bishamonten Daikokuten Ebisu Fujin Fukurokuju Inari Izanagi Kagutsuchi Raijin Susanoo Tsukuyomi
Caishen Cangjie Dragon King Eight Immortals Erlang Shen Fuxi Guanyin Hou Yi Huxian Jade Emperor King Yama Leizi Lu-ban Mazu Nezha Nuwa Pangu Shennong Sun Wukong Xiwangmu Yue Lao Zhong Kui
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Asteria

Asteria was the daughter of the Titans Coeüs (Coeus) and Phoebe. She was the sister of Leto. Asteria married Perses and became mother of Hecate.

Not long after her brother was imprisoned in Tartarus, Zeus fell in love with her. Zeus chased Phoebe, but she escaped him when she threw herself off a cliff and was turned into a quail.

Some say that she was transformed into the island of Delos, which was originally named after her, Asteria or Ortygia (ortyx means "quail"). When her sister became pregnant by Zeus, Leto was persecuted by Hera. Asteria offered her sister a safe haven to give birth to the twins, Apollo and Artemis.

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Asteria, Ἀστερία.
ortyx – "quail"

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Jimmy Joe Timeless Myths

By Jimmy Joe

Titans:

  • • Cronus (Saturn)
  • • Rhea (Ops)
  • • Oceanus
  • • Tethys
  • • Hyperion
  • • Theia
  • • Themis
  • • Mnemosyne
  • • Iapetus
  • • Coeüs
  • • Crius
  • • Phoebe
  • • Dione
  • • Atlas
  • • Prometheus
  • • Epimetheus
  • • Leto
  • • Asteria
  • • Perses
  • • Pallas
  • • Astraeüs
Leto

Leto

Leto was the daughter of the Titans Coeüs (Coeus) and Phoebe . Leto was the sister of Asteria . It is uncertain what attributes that this goddess had, but she may have been a mother goddess or a goddess of fertility. Leto was also the mother of tw...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Perses

Perses

Perses was the son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia . He was the brother of Astraeüs (Astraeus) and Pallas . He married Asteria and became the father of Hecate . Perses was probably imprisoned with the other Titans for participating in the war agai...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Alcyone, Celaeno and Asterope

Alcyone, Celaeno and Asterope

The other Pleiades' seduction by Poseidon and Ares was less interesting. Alcyone Poseidon seduced Alcyone (Ἀλκυόνη) who became the mother of Hyreis, Hyperenor and Aethusa. Celaeno Celaeno (Κελαινώ) had Poseidon as her lover as well, and became the...

August 31st, 2002 • Jimmy Joe
Astraeüs

Astraeüs

Son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia . He was the brother of Perses and Pallas . By the goddess Eos , he was the father of Boreas , Zephyrus and Notus - gods of winds (see also Aeolus for more detail about the wind gods). His name means "Starry" be...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Phoebe

Phoebe

Titaness of the moon. Phoebe was the daughter of Uranus and Gaea . Phoebe married her brother Coeüs (Coeus). Phoebe became the mother of Leto and Asteria , so Phoebe was the grandmother of Apollo , Artemis and Hecate . Her name means "light", and ...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Eurybia

Eurybia

Daughter of Gaea and Pontus. Eurybia married the Titan Crius , and was the mother of Astraeüs (Astraeus), Perses and Pallas . For some reason, Hesiod says that she had a heart of flint. Hesiod had also called her a bright goddess.

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Delos

Delos

Delos was a small island in the Cyclades, located between two larger islands, Rhenea and Myconus. It was probably called Asteria or Ortygia after Asteria, daughter of the Titans, Coeüs and Phoebe, and sister of Leto. Asteria was changed into a qua...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Theia

Theia

Titaness of sorcery. Theia was the daughter of Uranus and Gaea . She was sometimes called, Euryphaëssa (Eurtphaessa). Theia was the goddess of light. She married her brother Hyperion , and was the mother of Eos ("Dawn"), Helius ("Sun"), and Selene...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Hecate

Hecate

Hecate was the daughter of Perses or Persaeüs (Persaeus) and Asteria , both of whom were offspring of the Titans. She had also been called a daughter of Demeter. The Romans identified her with Trivia, goddess of the crossroads or of the "Three Way...

September 29th, 2002 • Jimmy Joe
Electra

Electra

One of the Pleiades; a daughter of Atlas and Pleïone . Zeus lusted after Electra and spirited her to Olympus. Electra tried to prevent Zeus from raping her by running away and hiding behind the Palladium, a wooden image of Pallas, Athena's childho...

August 31st, 2002 • Jimmy Joe

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