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In Greek mythology, the Hecatoncheires (Ancient Greek: Ἑκατόγχειρες, romanized: Hekatóncheires, lit. ' Hundred-Handed Ones '), also called Hundred-Handers or Centimanes [ 1 ] ( / ˈ s ɛ n t ɪ m eɪ n z / ; Latin : Centimani ), were three monstrous giants, of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms.
Highest point; Elevation: 305 m (1,001 ft) Coordinates: Naming; English translation: The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his kōauau (flute) to his loved one.
Aegaeon, also called Briareus, one of the Hecatoncheires. [1] Aegaeon, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene, [2] Nonacris [3] or by unknown woman. He and his brothers were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These ...
Uranus (Sky) initially produced eighteen children with his mother Gaia (Earth): the twelve Titans, the three Cyclopes, and the three Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Handers), [12] but hating them, [13] he hid them away somewhere inside Gaia. [14] Angry and in distress, Gaia fashioned a sickle made of adamant and urged her children to punish their father.
She was the guard, in Tartarus, of the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires, whom Uranus had imprisoned there. When it was prophesied to Zeus that he would be victorious in the Titanomachy —the great war against the Titans—with the help of Campe's prisoners, he killed Campe, freeing the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires, who then helped Zeus defeat Cronus .
It depicts Briareus, one of the 100-handed Hecatoncheires, killing the Ophiotaurus in an attempt to burn its innards only to be stopped by birds sent by Zeus. [1] Book Three of Fasti reads: There was a bull, a marvelous monster, born of Mother Earth, the hind part of which was of serpent-form: warned by the three Fates, grim Styx had imprisoned ...
Arges is a child of Gaia and Uranus, and his siblings include his fellow cyclopes, Brontes and Steropes, along with the Titans and the Hecatoncheires. [4] After his birth, Uranus is said to have locked Arges and his cyclopes brothers in Tartarus out of fear, along with the Hundred Handed Ones. [5]
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