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  2. Cronus - Wikipedia

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    In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (/ ˈkroʊnəs / or / ˈkroʊnɒs /, from Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky). He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological ...

  3. Chronos - Wikipedia

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    Chronos. Chronos (/ ˈkroʊnɒs, - oʊs /; Ancient Greek: Χρόνος, romanized: Khronos, lit. 'Time' , [kʰrónos]), also spelled Chronus, is a personification of time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. [1] Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan, Cronus, in antiquity, due to the ...

  4. Hecatoncheires - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, the Hecatoncheires, Hekatoncheires (Greek: Ἑκατόγχειρες, lit. " Hundred-Handed Ones "), also called Hundred-Handers or Centimanes[1] (/ ˈsɛntɪmeɪnz /; Latin: Centimani), were three monstrous giants, of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms. They were individually named Cottus ...

  5. Titans - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, the Titans (Ancient Greek: οἱ Τῑτᾶνες, hoi Tītânes, singular: ὁ Τῑτᾱ́ν, -ήν, ho Tītân) were the pre-Olympian gods. [1] According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), with six male Titans— Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion ...

  6. Percy Jackson & the Olympians - Wikipedia

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    After confronting an innocent Hades, they learn that their friend Luke Castellan, son of Hermes, is the real thief who stole the lightning bolt to allow Kronos, the defeated King of the Titans from the past, a chance to rise again and that Ares, the Greek god of war, had been manipulated by Kronos and helped cover up Luke's crime to instigate a ...

  7. Twelve Olympians - Wikipedia

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    Married to the Nereid Amphitrite; although, as with many of the male Greek gods, he had many lovers. His symbols include the trident, horse, bull, and dolphin. Demeter: Ceres: Goddess of the harvest, fertility, agriculture, nature and the seasons. She presided over grains and the fertility of the earth. The middle daughter of Cronus and Rhea.

  8. Greek underworld - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In Greek mythology, the Greek underworld, or Hades, is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence (psyche) is separated from the corpse and transported to the underworld. [1]

  9. Geb - Wikipedia

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    The equation was shown on the one hand in the local iconography of the gods, in which Geb was depicted as a man with attributes of Cronus and Cronus with attributes of Geb. [12] On the other hand, the priests of the local main temple identified themselves in Egyptian texts as priests of "Soknebtunis-Geb", but in Greek texts as priests of ...