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Update : Turns out maybe he’s not actually the god of time, because Kronos is the god and “khronos” is time. Shares a name (and probably nothing else) with the best character on Friends. Wife/sister of Coeus, grandmother of Artemis and Apollo. Like the other male Titans, he did some time in Tartarus. Mainly important because his grandkids were Artemis and Apollo. Another time Perseus turned him to stone. One time, Herakles (aka Hercules) held the sky for him for a while, in exchange for some golden apples.

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Greek myth says he actually held the sky, but, I don’t know, artistic license or whatever. You might recognize Atlas as that guy with the world on his back. The only reason she’s listed here is because her grandson is Hermes. Remember the thousands of water babies Tethys had with Oceanus? Pleione is one of them. Iapetus is apparently a distant ancestor of all humans via Prometheus (not pictured), so that’s something. Tethys was married to Oceanus and gave birth to literally thousands of water-related mythological beings but otherwise didn’t do much. He also had crab claws on his head for some reason. He also went to Tartarus, also until Zeus let him out. Later, as people learned more about Geography, he wound up in charge of the Atlantic Ocean, with Poseidon getting the Mediterranean. In Greek Mythology, the entire habitable world was surrounded by a big ocean/stream. I know some of these descriptions are short, but most of these guys barely appear anywhere aside from lists of titans. Crius (aka Krios)īanished to Tartarus forever, until Zeus let him out. Heavenly light apparently means the light of a clear blue sky. He was one of the Titans who fought Zeus got banished to Tartarus (the underworld’s underworld, a sort of metaphysical maximum security prison) forever, until Zeus let him out. His son was the sun, but I don’t think that’s as punny in ancient Greek. She was also the mother of the Muses, the father being Zeus.

Before people invented writing, if you wanted to hear a story, you’d have to memorize it. Ancient Greece is four times as far away, chronologically speaking. Like, just imagine a modern American and a 14th century English lord trying to agree on what should be basic human rights. What Themis is god of doesn’t really translate directly, and I’m not sure I’d understand it even if it did, because the ancient Greek concept of “divine justice” is totally tied up in ancient Greek culture in general, which is about as foreign to use as it’s possible to be. So, count with me now: incest, murder, castration, “foam,” incest again, pedophilia, and we’re only three gods in! Themis

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She also turned a statue named Galatea into a real girl, which inspired Pygmalion (by George Bernard Shaw), which inspired My Fair Lady (the musical), which inspired My Fair Lady (the movie starring Audrey Hepburn). And THEN, when the incest-baby was born from the tree-that-had-formerly-been-Myrrha (long story), Aphrodite fell in love with it and got into a big fight over who got to be the baby’s lover. There are a lot of stories about her, but I think my favorite is the one where she got so angry that she made a girl named Myrrha fall in love with her own father. Oh but that penis? It landed in some water, and produced “foam” from which emerged Aphrodite. Eventually a bunch of them got together and cut off his penis, after which he either died or disappeared, depending on who you ask. Ouranos was his own stepfather, and had some serious sibling rivalry with his children. Picture a heavy-set Lucille Bluth with earth-powers. As far as I can tell, the first thing she did after having a kid was marry him, and then made more kids so they could fight. Gaia was mother of more or less everyone and everything, which is only one of the reasons her descendants’ family tree is so screwed up. My favorite by far is Momus, God of Blame and Insults, who was kicked out of the clubhouse for insulting (among other things) Zeus’s sex life and Aphrodite’s squeaky sandals. Most of them don’t come up in pop-culture, I think because they were like five-plus generations removed from the Olympians.

In order of appearance: Primodial Deitiesīefore there were Gods, there were these God-like anthropomorphized concepts. Just some of the biggest, most important ones.

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So this is not even close to a full list of Gods and Goddesses, to say nothing of all the demigods, mythical creatures, anthropomorphized-concepts, and other things that show up in Greek mythology. I had to cut it down, and cut it again, and even then I didn’t finish in time – sorry again, by the way. “I’ll just list all the Greek Gods,” I said. UPDATE : I made an updated poster version, with like a dozen extra gods! Buy it here!