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Early accounts gave her a primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). [4] She is thus the sister of the Titans (Oceanus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Coeus, Themis, Rhea, Phoebe, Tethys, Mnemosyne, Cronus, and sometimes of Dione), the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires, the Giants, the Meliae, the Erinyes, and is the half-sister of Aphrodite (in some versions ...
In Greek mythology, Theia (/ ˈ θ iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Θεία, romanized: Theía, lit. 'divine', also rendered Thea or Thia) is one of the three thousand Oceanid nymphs, daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, and the mother of the Cercopes. She is not to be confused with Theia, sister to Oceanus and Tethys and mother of Helios ...
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
In Greek mythology, Tethys (/ ˈ t iː θ ɪ s, ˈ t ɛ-/; Ancient Greek: Τηθύς, romanized: Tēthýs) was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, a sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids.
Animation of collision between Earth (blue) and Theia (black), forming the Moon (red and gray). Bodies are not to scale. According to the giant impact hypothesis, Theia orbited the Sun, nearly along the orbit of the proto-Earth, by staying close to one or the other of the Sun-Earth system's two more stable Lagrangian points (i.e., either L 4 or ...
"Hyperion" means "he that walks on high" or simply "the god above", often joined with "Helios". [5] There is a possible attestation of his name in Linear B (Mycenaean Greek) in the lacunose form ]pe-rjo-[(Linear B: ] 𐀟𐁊-[), found on the KN E 842 tablet (reconstructed [u]-pe-rjo-[ne]) [6] [7] though it has been suggested that the name actually reads "Apollo" ([a]-pe-rjo-[ne]).
The 59-year-old actor and model, who recently starred in a controversial film directed by her own son and had to deny rumours that she took Prince Harry’s virginity, played Vanessa Kensington in ...
The names Phoebe and Phoebus (masculine) came to be applied as synonyms for Artemis/Diana and Apollo respectively, [8] as well as for Luna and Sol, the lunar goddess and the solar god, by the Roman poets; the late-antiquity grammarian Servius writes that "Phoebe is Luna, like Phoebus is Sol." [9] Phoebe was, like Artemis, identified by Roman ...