Greek Mythology (lineage)

Greek Mythology    (lineage) 

Cronos

Son of Uranus – Ruler of the Universe

Cronos’s Mother: Gaia

Gaia’s Children included:

Youngest: (hundred-handed) Hecatonchires and (one-eyed) Cyclopes,

Uranus imprisons these two in Tartarus

Gaia angered asks her other children to step forth and kill Uranus

Cronos dutifully accepts the task

Cronos castrates father Uranus and throws his testicles into sea producing:

From the blood:   Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae

1. From the foam: Aphrodite

Uranus’s sons Titenes or Titans (straining ones):

including: Ophian the Wicked Serpentine

Cronos sister Rhea with whom he ruled the world

Cronos’s sons (by Rhea):

Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades and Poseidon

Cronos devours them all (to prevent prophecy that they will kill him as he killed his father Uranus)

Sixth child: Zeus (secretly Rhea gives birth to him in Crete)

Rhea hides Zeus on Mt. Ida

Some claim he was raised by the goat Amalthea

or the nymph Adamanthea

Or possibly by grandma Gaia

Zeus (or Metis) give Cronos an emetic (or cuts him open) and he disgorges Zeus’s siblings and the ‘rock’

Two brothers: Poseidon and Hades

Three sisters: Demeter, Hera, Hestia

Releases the hundred handed guy and the Cyclops

Cyclops molds Zeus thunderbolts Poseidon’s trident and Hades helmet of Darkness

The Titanomachy ‘Clash of the Titans’ between Zeus plus brothers (along with the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires) vs. Cronos and the other Titans

Zeus wins

Cronos imprisoned in Tartarus

or (other hypothesis) rules Italy

Next:

The Twelve Titans:

Cronus and Rhea,

Oceanus and Tethys,

Hyperion and Theia,

Coeus and Phoebe,

Mnemosyne, Themis,

Crius, Iapetus

Their kids:

Oceanids, Potamoi

Helios, Selene, Eos

Lelantos, Leto, Asteria

Atlas, Prometheus,

Epimetheus, Menoetius

Astraeus, Pallas, Perses

The Twelve Olympians:

Zeus,

Hera,

Poseidon,

Demeter,

Athena,

Apollo,

Artemis,

Ares,

Aphrodite,

Hephaestus,

Hermes  and

Either Hestia, or Dionysus

Sometimes:

Hades and Persephone

or not (~) Hades (underworld)

Honorable mention:

Heracles and Asclepius

Hebe, Helios, Selene, Eos, Eros and Persephone

Graeco-Egyptian ‘couplings’:

Amon / Zeus,

Osiris / Dionysus,

and Ptah / Hephaestus.