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Titans: Earth And Uranus God Of The Sun
All the Titans were the children of Gaia, mother of the Earth and Uranus god of the sun. Before the Titans, they had six kids together that looked monstrous. Therewfor, Uranus puts them in the underworld. Titans were born, they were beautiful, so they keep all of them. Helios “drove the chariot that pulled the sun across the sky from East to West”. Selene “pulled the moon across the skies at night” The other Titans, controlled the oceans and the rivers.
One of the youngest gods Cronus, replaced Uranus than married Rhea, his sister. Uranus and Rhea had children together, but they came out scary, so he slowed them whole except for Zeus because Rhea hid him. Zeus grew up and fed Cronus poison and all of his siblings that had been slowed whole

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