TITANS

This is one of a series of pages on classical gods. Another is minor classical gods.

Cronus -- Oceanos -- Titan

TITAN

The Titans were a group of Greek gods, the children of Uranus (the sky) and Gaia (the Earth) One Titan, Cronus, became king of the gods after he castrated his father Uranus (the sky), who then floated into the air where he remains today. The Titans were later overthrown by the Olympian gods, the children of Cronus and Rhea. The original twelve Titans were Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, Mnemosyne, Oceanos, Phoebe, Rhea, Tethys, Theia and Themis. Some of their children, such as Atlas and Prometheus, are sometimes considered Titans as well.

IMAGES: Ancient Greek depiction of Rhea and Cronus -- Ancient Greek depiction of Oceanos

CRONUS

Cronus was one of the Titans. He castrated his father Uranus, the sky, causing him to float off into the air. Cronus then became ruler of the gods, but one of his children was fated to overthrow him. Cronus swallowed the children born to him by his consort Rhea to avoid this, but Rhea, wanting to protect at least one child, smuggled their son Zeus to Crete and fed Cronus a stone wrapped in cloths. Zeus was raised by the goat Amaltheia, and when he grew up, forced Cronus to regurgitate his children. A war ensued, but Zeus and his supporters finally overthrew the Titans.

Orphic doctrien gives a very different account of Cronus' story, claiming that he was a dragon with three heads (those of a lion, a bull and a god) and that the world hatched out of an egg that he layed. Neither version matches up with FF3's lizard-headed "croni".

IMAGE: Ancient Greek depiction of Rhea and Cronus

OCEANOS

A Greek ocean god, father of all the world's rivers. Despite being a Titan, he sided with Zeus in the war against Cronus. He was depicted with a fish's tail instead of legs, although FF3 depicts him as largely fish-like (more specifically, eel-like)

IMAGE: Ancient Greek depiction of Oceanos

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