GREEN represents earth gods
LIGHT BLUE represents sky gods
DARK BLUE represents sea gods
THREE GENERATIONS OF GODS
The Primordial Gods (Gaia & Uranus)
The Titans (Cronus & Rhea)
The Olympians (Zeus & Hera)
Exists beyond space and time:
CHRONOS - Old Father Time
ANANKE - Necessitas (Destiny)
PRIMORDIAL GODS (born out of chaos)
Eros Elder (Phanes) - Love & Procreation
Physis (Natura) - Nature
Thesis – Creation
Tartarus (The Pit) - Underworld
Gaia (Terra) - Mother Earth
Erebus - Darkness
Nyx - Night
The family tree starts from Gaia:
Ourea - The Mountains
Uranus (Caelus) - Father Sky
Pontus - The Sea
GAIA & URANUS
-became a couple
-from them came:
The cyclopes (one-eyed monsters)
The hecatoncheires monsters (50 heads and
100 arms
-12 titans
Tartarus – Original God of the Underworld
Cerberus (3 headed dog)
Colchian Dragon (golden fleece guardian)
Sphinx (body of a lion, face of a woman, wings
of a bird)
Pontus – Original God of the Sea
The Harpies (winged spirits known for stealing
food)
The Sirens (beauties that lured sailors into the
rocks)
The Gorgons (Medusa & her two sisters; had
snakes for hair)
Medusa – famous Gorgon
Descendants of Pontus
The Graeae (3 witches who shared one eye &
tooth)
Nereus – Old Man of the Sea
-Father of The Nereids (a large group of female
sea nymphs)
Erebus (Darkness) & Nyx (Night)
-Charon (Ferryman to the Underworld)
Personifications of various concepts:
-Death or Sleep
TITANS (children of Gaia and Uranus)
Oceanus (God of the Ocean)
Tethys (Goddess of the Rivers)
-second generation “Pontus”
-parents of The Oceanids (large group of sea
goddesses)
Hyperion (God of Light)
Theia (Goddess of the Aether)
-Helios (Sol) - The Sun “Solar”
-Selene (Lunos) - The Moon “Lunar”
Crius - God of the Constellations
-married the daughter of Pontus (Eurybia-Sea
Goddess)
Pallas (Titan God of War)
-Pallas married Styx (Oceanid) and parents of
Kratos (Strength), Nike (Victoria-Victory)
Cronus (Saturn) - God of the Harvest
Rhea/Cybele (Ops) - Goddess of Fertility
TITANS GENERATION
-couple for the sea (Oceanus and Tethys)
-couple for the sky (Hyperion and Theia)
-couple for the earth (Cronus and Rhea)
The rest of the Titans:
Themis - Goddess of Law & Order
Iapetus - God of Mortal Life
Mnemosyne - Goddess of Memory
Coeus - The Celestial Axis
Phoebe - A minor moon Goddess
Most important is Iapetus:
-father of Atlas (The god who carried the
celestial sphere/globe)
Prometheus (God of Foresight; Creator of Man)
Epimetheus (God of Hindsight)
-married Pandora
-Pandora (The First Woman)
King and Queen of the Gods (The Titans)
-Cronus and Rhea
-Uranus disliked and banished Hecatoncheires
which angered Gaia
-Giant sickle to castrate Uranus (Cronus
castrated him)
-Blood of Uranus came The Erinyes (Direa) -
The Furies/Goddesses of Vengeance
-The Gigantes (The Giants)
-The Meliae (The Ash Tree Nymphs)
OLYMPIANS (children of Cronus and Rhea)
-Cronus ate his children as soon as they were
born
-Cronus ate his first 5 children
-6th child (Zeus)
Battle of the Titans
Prophecy (Zeus was able to defeat Cronus)
Zeus (Jupiter) - God of the Sky & Thunder
-3rd and final King of the Gods
-cut open his father's stomach and released his
siblings
-freed Hecatoncheires (guards)
-imprisoned Titans
6 Children of Cronus and Rhea
Persephone (Proserpina) - Queen of the
Underworld
-daughter of Zeus and Demeter
-kidnapped by Hades
-made her Queen of the Underworld
Dike - Goddess of Justice
-blindfold across her eyes
The 9 Muses - Goddesses who inspired artists
-daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne
Perseus - killed Medusa; founder of Mycenae
Heracles (Hercules) - Greatest of the Greek
heroes
Dionysus (Bacchus) - God of Wine
-son of Zeus
-popular God in Greek Pantheon
-main olympian in place of Hestia
Eros/Amor (Cupid) - God of Love
-son of Ares and Aphrodite
Hermaphrodites - God of Androgyny
-child of Hermes and Aphrodite
Pan (Faunus) - God of Shepherding
-son of Hermes

Poseidon (Neptune) - God of the Sea ORIGINAL GODS:

-married Amphitrite (Salacia-Goddess of the Sea) Tartarus (The Pit) – God of the Underworld
Pontus – God of the Sea
Demeter (Ceres) - Goddess of the Harvest Pallas – Titan God of War
Cronus (Saturn) – God of the Harvest
Zeus (Jupiter) - God of the Sky & Thunder
-married his sister Hera (Queen of the Gods) ROMAN EQUIVALENT:
Cronus – Saturn
Hera (Juno) - Goddess of Women Zeus – Jupiter
Hera – Juno
Hades (Pluto) - God of the Underworld Poseidon – Neptune
Demeter – Ceres
Hestia (Vesta) - Virgin Goddess of the Hades – Pluto
Hearth/Home Hestia – Vesta
Athena – Minerva
12 Titans and 12 Olympians Hephaestus – Vulcan
-7 children of Zeus (main Olympians) Ares – Mars
Athena (Minerva) - Goddess of Wisdom Aphrodite – Venus
-daughter of Zeus and Metis (first wife) Hermes – Mercury
Hephaestus (Vulcan) - God of Fire Artemis – Diana
-son of Zeus and Hera Persephone – Proserpina
Ares (Mars) - God of War Dionysus – Bacchus
-son of Zeus and Hera Eros/Amor – Cupid
Aphrodite (Venus) - Goddess of Love & Beauty
Hermes (Mercury) - Messenger of the Gods
-son of Zeus and Maia (Pleiades and daughter of -Helios (Sol) - The Sun “Solar”
Atlas) - Earth and Sky God -Selene (Lunos) - The Moon “Lunar”
Apollo - God of the Sun, the Arts, and Medicine
-son of Zeus and Leto (Latona-Goddess)
Artemis (Diana) - Goddess of the Moon &
Hunting
-daughter of Zeus and Leto (Latona-Goddess)