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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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Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena Atlas Coeus Crius Cronus Demeter Dionysus Gaia Hades Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia Hyperion Iapetus Mnemosyne Oceanus Phobos Phoebe Poseidon Prometheus Rhea Tethys Themis Uranus Zeus
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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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" because he was also the father of the stars.

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Astraeüs, Astraeus, Ἀστραίων – "Starry".

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Crius, Eurybia, Perses, Pallas, Eos, Boreas.

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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
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
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
Crius

Crius

Titan. Crius was the son of Uranus and Gaea . Crius married his half-sister Eurybia , daughter of Gaea and Pontus, and became the father of Perses , Pallas and Astraeus . When Zeus overthrew Cronus and the other Titans, Crius was confined with the...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Pallas

Pallas

Pallas was the son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia . He was the brother of Perses and Astraeüs (Astraeus). He married the Oceanid Styx , and became the father of Bia ("Violence"), Cratus ("Strength"), Nike ("Victory") and Zelus ("Emulation").

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Asteria

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 Phoe...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Crius

Crius

Crius: The Forgotten Titan and Pillar of the Starlit South Crius, Titan of the Constellations, is one of the least recognized gods in Greek mythology. He appeared very little in the old stories, and not at all after Zeus and the Olympian gods came...

April 2nd, 2002 • Timeless Myths
Coeüs

Coeüs

Titan of intellect. Coeüs (Coeus) was the son of Uranus and Gaea . He married his sister Phoebe and became the father of Leto and Asteria. Coeüs seemed to be the god of intellect. When Zeus overthrew Cronus and the other male Titans, Coeüs was con...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Eos

Eos

Goddess of dawn. Eos was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia . The Romans identified her as Aurora. Some say that she brought dawn by riding her chariot across the sky, while others say that she was a winged-goddess. Her horses that pull her chario...

April 24th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Uranus (Sky)

Uranus (Sky)

The sky and the god of the sky. Uranus was the son of Gaea and possibly of Aether . Uranus married his mother and became the first supreme ruler of the world. (According to the Orphic myth, Gaea and Uranus were not mother and son. Rather they were...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Aeolus

Aeolus

Keeper of the winds. Aeolus (Αἴολος) was the son of Hippotas. Aeolus was the king of the island Aeolia. It was Zeus who gave Aeolus the duties of the winds. Aeolus had a famous guest on his island and gave Odysseus a gift: a bag containing all of ...

April 24th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe

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