The Creation and the Titans

"The Greeks did not believe that the gods created the universe. It is the other way about: the universe created the gods. Before there were gods, heaven and earth had been formed. They were the first parents, the titans were their children, and the gods were their grandchildren."

It really is the other way around. Imagine, how did the universe created the titans, their children? Does it mean that the universe was there all along? Well this is literature. As I've said, mythology was the science of the early people. Their way to explain everything that they saw around them.

Let's meet the titans...

Titans were the first people who ruled the earth, according to mythology. They were once the mightiest of them all. The word 'Titan' is somehow familiar to us. If you checked your thesaurus, titan was synonymous to the word 'giant'. Something huge, unmeasurable and heavyweight. Remember "Titanic", the biggest ship ever built?

Basically, Titans were big people. Some sort of a giant. They were the elder gods of enormous sizes and of incredible strengths. Notable titans were as follows: Cronus (the ruler of all the titans) and Rhea (his wife); Ocean (the river that was supposed to encircle the earth) and Thetys (his wife); Hyperion (father of the sun, the moon and the dawn); Mnemosyne (memory); Themis (justice); and Iapetus (father of atlas, who bore the world on his shoulders and Prometheus, who was the savior of mankind).

For better understanding of these titans, i would like to share a family tree provided by Ms. Hamilton:

I chopped the lower part of the family tree for the Olympian gods and goddesses, so we would know who the titans were and for a clearer picture of their hierarchy.

Next up, Olympian gods and goddesses...