Cronus - Cronus Rhea tricking Cronus with a wrapped stone. Cronus ("crow", also spelled Cronos and Kronos but perhaps not to be confused with Chronos), in Greek mythology (Saturn in Roman mythology), was the leader and (in some myths) the youngest of the first generation of Titans. His mother was Gaia, and his father was Uranus, whom Cronus envied. Uranus hid the youngest children of Gaia, the one-hundred armed giants (Hecatonchires) and the one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes, in Tartarus so that they would not see the light, rejoicing in this evil doing. This caused pain to Gaia (Tartarus was her bowels), so she created grey flint and shaped a great sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to ask them to obey her. Only Cronus was willing.
Koryvandes - Rhea, in Crete. In the Greek telling of Zeus' birth, the Kuretes' ritual clashing spears and shields were interpreted as intended to drown out the infant god's cries, and prevent his discovery by his father Cronus. In this myth, the Koryvandes may have been Cretan vegetation daemons, later supplanted by the Olympian pantheon. Koryvandes or Kuretes presided over the infancy of Dionysus, another god who was born as a babe, and of Zagreus, a Cretan child of Zeus. After the cult of Cybele had been formally established in Rome (203 BCE), the Roman Korybantes of Cybele were called Galli ("Gauls"). Gauls had overrun Phrygia earlier in the 3rd century, and their region was subsequently known to Romans as Galatia. The galli castrated themselves to emulate Attis, the consort of their goddess..
Kronia - of every month (Hekatombaion), a festival called Kronia was held in honor of Cronus, a god of agriculture, and to celebrate the harvest..
Kronos - the personification of time in Greek mythology There is also Cronus, the similarly named Greek mythological Titan. The two should not be confused. "Kronos" is the anglicisation of Qo'noS, the Klingon homeworld in the fictional Star Trek universe. Kronos Quartet is a classical music group. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Incest - to categories. One, used mainly in southern states, in which the definitions of incest are taken from the Bible, and which frowns upon marriage within ones lineage but less so on one blood relatives, and the other known which frowns more on marriage between blood relatives (such as cousins), but less on one's linage. Within the West, sexual relations between parents and their children, and between brothers and sisters are almost universially forbidden. Incest is most frequently engaged in by parents of both sexes and their children. And while it is usually perceived as an act engaged in by a father and his daughter, this is yet another myth surrounding the practice. Historically, the most important forms of incest were maternal incest (see also Oedipus complex). And while surveys do not.
Hades - Dii were the Roman gods of the underworld. The deceased entered the underworld by crossing the river Acheron, ferried across by Charon (kair'-on), who charged an obolus (coin) for passage. The far side of the river was guarded by Cerberus, the three-headed dog defeated by Heracles (or Hercules as the Romans referred to him). After Cerberus, the shades of the departed entered Tartarus, the land of the dead. The five rivers of Hades are Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon, Lethe and Styx. See also Mnemosyne and Eridanus. Hades the person In Greek mythology, the god of the underworld was named "Hades" because and after the unseen kingdom of that name. Hades was born as a son of Titanss Cronus and Rhea. He had three older sisters Hestia, Demeter and Hera as well as.
Hanno the Navigator - interpreters judge Hanno to have advanced beyond Sierra Leone as far as Cape Palmas, partly because of his description of the sun rising and setting in the northern part of the sky—a detail Greek geographers found ludicrously impossible. On the island which formed the terminus of his voyage the explorer found a number of hairy women, whom the interpreters called Gorillas. The full Greek title is The Voyage of Hanno, commander of the Carthaginians, round the parts of Libya beyond the Pillars of Heracles, which he deposited in the temple of Cronus. It was known to Arrian, who mentions it at the end of his Anabasis of Alexander VIII (Indica): "Moreover, Hanno the Libyan started out from Carthage and passed the pillars of Heracles and sailed into the outer Ocean, with.
Hestia - hearth": the household and its inhabitants. Hestia symbolizes the alliance by between the colonies and their mother-cities and is the oldest daughter of Rhea and Cronus. Originally listed as one of the Twelve Olympians, she was later removed in favour of Dionysus. Afterwards, she tended the sacred fire on Mt. Olympus. Her altars included every family hearth on earth. Hestia vowed to forever remain a virgin and refused Poseidon and Apollo when they came calling. Hestia is also the title of a science fiction novel by C. J. Cherryh..
Hecatonchires - Gaia and Uranus. Their father threw them into Tartarus, but they were rescued by Cronus and helped him overthrow Uranus by castrating him. After helping Cronus, he threw them back into Tartarus, where they remained, guarded by Campe, until Zeus rescued them. During the War of the Titans, they threw rocks one-hundred at a time at the Titans. Afterwards the Hecatonchires became the guards of the gates of Tartarus. In the Iliad there is a story, found nowhere else in mythology, that at one point the gods were trying to overthrow Zeus but were stopped when Thetis brought a Hecatonchire to his aid. They are often considered sea-deities, and may be derived from pentekonters, longboats with fifty oarsmen. They were Briareus ("strong"), Gyges (or Gyes) and Cottu ("son of Cottytus"). Homer.
Gaia (mythology) - father. Only a distant echo of Gaia's primal power is to be found in her Roman equivalent, Magna Mater, who was most strongly identified by Romans with Cybele. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Gaia in Greek mythology 1.1 Consorts/Children of Gaia 2 Gaia in modern ecological theory 3 References Gaia in Greek mythology With Uranus, Gaia had three sets of children: one-hundred armed giants called Hecatonchires and one-eyed giants called Cyclopes were the youngest, and significantly later, the Titans. Occasionally, the Erinyes were considered a fourth set of children by Gaia and Uranus. Uranus hid the (Hecatonchires) and the Cyclopes in Tartarus so that they would not see the light, rejoicing in this evil doing. This caused pain to Gaia (Tartarus was her bowels) so she created grey flint (or adamantine).
Gigantes - sprang forth from the blood of the wounded Uranus after being castrated by Cronus. The Gigantes later attacked the gods of Mt. Olympus, trying to reach them by stacking the two mountain ranges of Thessaly, Pelion and Ossa, on top of each other. With the help of Heracles though, the Gigantes were defeated. Enceladus, one of the Gigantes, was placed beneath Mt. Etna. The rumbling of the volcano was caused by him rolling around. Athos, another one of the Gigantes, threw a mountain at Zeus, who knocked it to the ground near Macedonia. This mountain was the holy peak of Mount Athos. The Gigantes were Alcyoneus ("mighty ass"), Clytias, Enceladus, Echion and Athos Ovid I, 151..
Family Tree of the Greek Gods - the 12 Gods of Olympus and the gods who reigned the world a time (Uranos, Cronus and Zeus). Chaos +-------+--------------+------+ Gaia Tartarus Eros +--------+----+-----+------------+ Python +--+----+ +--+-+ Uranus Pontus +-+------+ +-+-+ +-+--+ Echidna Typhon +-+-+ / / ,--------------------------' / / +------------+-----+ \\ '--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. \\ +----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------+--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ (Titan) (Cyclopes) (Hecantochires) (Gigantes) (Erinyes) (Meliae) +------+-+-----+--------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------+---------+--------+-------+ +--------+--------+ +-------+------+ +----------+-----------+--------+-------+ +------+-+----------+ ... Oceanus Coeus Hyperion Crius Iapetus Cronus Tethys Rhea Themis Mnemosyne Phoebe Theia Brontes Steropes Arges Briareus Gyges Cottu Alcyoneus Clytias Enceladus Echion Athos Alecto Tisiphone Megaera +----+-------------------------------------------+ +--+----+--------+------+-------+ +-------------+---------------------------------------\\---------\\-------+ Aphrodite (Oceanid) +--------+-----+ \\ \\ Nereus Thaumas Phorcys Ceto Eurybia +-----------------------------------------------\\---------\\------------++ +-----++----+-----+ \\ \\ \\ +--+---+ \\ \\ \\ Asopus ... Clymene Doris \\ \\ +----+------+-----+ (Phorcydes) +------------------------------------------++ \\ \\ +--------+-----------+ \\ \\ \\ Selene Eos Helios +-+--------+-----------------+----------+---------------------+-----------------+---------------+ +-------------------------\\-----------------------------\\---------\\--------------------------------++ +--------+--+------+------------+ \\ \\ \\ \\ Echidna.
Uranus (mythology) - Cyclopes, in Tartarus so that they would not see the light, rejoicing in this evil doing. This caused pain to Gaia (Tartarus was her bowels) so she created grey flint and shaped a great sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to ask them to obey her. Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and set him in ambush. Cronus jumped out and lopped off his father's testicles, casting them behind him. From his blood on the Earth came forth the Gigantes, Erinyes and Meliae. From the testicles of Uranus in the sea came forth Aphrodite. For this, Uranus called his sons Titans, meaning "strainers" for they strained and did presumptuously a fearful deed, for which vengeance would come afterwards. After Uranus was.
Erinyes - usually said to have been born from the blood of Uranus that fell upon Gaia when Cronus castrated him; i.e., they were chthonic (earth) deities. According to a variant account, they were born from Nyx. Their number is usually left indeterminate, though Virgil, probably working from an Alexandrian source, recognized three; Alecto ("unceasing"), Megaera ("grudging"), and Tisiphone ("avenging murder"). The heads of the Erinyes were wreathed with serpents, their eyes dripped with blood, and their whole appearance was terrific and appalling. Sometimes they had the wings of a bat or the body of a dog. Tisiphone fell in love with Cithaeron. She caused his death by snakebite, specifically, one of the snakes from her head. The Erinyes generally stood for the rightness of things within the standard order; for example, Heraclitus.
Tartarus - night, which surrounds a bronze wall which in turn encompasses Tartarus. It is a dank and wretched pit engulfed in murky gloom. It is one of the primordial objects, along with Chaos, Earth, and Eros, that emerged into the universe. While, according to Greek mythology, Hades is the place of the dead, Tartarus also has a number of inhabitants. When Cronus, the ruling Titan, came to power he imprisoned the Cyclopes in Tartarus. Zeus released them to aid in his conflict with the Titan giants. The gods of Olympus eventually defeated them and they were cast into Tartarus. They were guarded by giants, each with 50 enormous heads and 100 strong arms, who were called Hecatonchires. Later, when Zeus overcame the monster Typhus, the offspring of Tartarus and Gaia, he threw.
Adamanthea - raise the infant Zeus to hide him from his father, Cronus. Since a prophesy from his mother, Gaia, predicting that his own offspring would overthrow his supreme position in the pantheon, Cronus swallowed all of his childrn as soon as they were born. Rhea, Zeus' mother and Cronus' wife deceived Cronus by giving him a stone wrapped to look like a baby instead of Zeus, whom she gave to Adamanthea to nurse. Since Cronus ruled over the earth, the heavens and the sea, she hid him by dangling him on a rope from a tree so he was suspended between earth, sea and sky and thus, invisible to his father..
Aegea - Circe and Pasiphae and daughter to Helios and Perse. When Zeus rose up against Cronus and the other Titans, Gaia hid Aegea in a cave to hide her beauty. Amaterasu and Päivätär have similar stories in Japanese and Finnish mythology, respectively..
Aphrodite - counterpart was Astarte; her Etruscan equivalent was Turan. Venus was often referred to with epithet Venus Erycina ("of the heather") after Mt. Eryx, Sicily, one of the centers of her cult. Birth Originally she was considered a daughter of Zeus and Dione, one of the ocean nymphs. By classical times, however, an alternate story of her birth had gained precedence, that she was born of the sea foam near Paphos, Cyprus after Cronus cut off Uranus' genitals and the god's blood dropped on the sea. The Iliad refers to both versions. After this story became standard, Aphrodite was sometimes referred to as "Dione". Sometimes she was considered to have two manifestations, reflecting both stories, Aprhodite Ourania ("heavenly"), and Aphrodite Pandemos ("Common"). According to Plato these two manifestations represented her role in.
Atlantis - dedicated to Persephone, and three large ones; one of these, comprising 1,000 stadia in length, was dedicated to Poseidon. Proclus tells us that Crantor reported that he, too, had seen the columns on which the story of Atlantis was preserved as reported by Plato: the Sais priest showed him its history in hieroglyph characters. Some other writers called it Poseidonis after Poseidon. Plutarch mentions Saturnia or Ogygia about five days' sail to the west of Britain. He added that westwards from that island, there were the three islands of Cronus, to where proud and warlike men used to come from the continent beyond the islands, in order to offer sacrifice to the gods of the ocean. An important Greek festival of Pallas Athene, the Panathenaea was dated from the days of.
Ben Gurion International Airport - The plane carried many American and Israeli passengers, and one US Marine died, when the Delta Force stormed the plane. On May 30, 1972, 26 people (including 2 terrorists) were killed and 80 injured in an attack by the Japanese Red Army in the passenger arrival area. The victims included Aharon Katzir, a prominent protein biophysicist, and a group of 20 Puerto Rican tourists who had just arrived in Israel Airlines flying to Ben-Gurion International Airport include: Adria Airways Aegean Cronus Airlines Aeris Aeroflot Air Adriatic Air Alfa Air Anatoylia Air Canada Air France Air Kazakhstan Air Sinai Air Slovakia Airzena Georgian Airlines Alitalia Arkia Israelian Airlines Aero Sweet Atlas International Airlines Austrian Airlines Azerbaijan Airlines Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Belavia BH Air Blue Panorama Bosphorus Airlines British Airways Bulgarian Air Charter.
