The Titans
REPULIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
ST.CAMILLUS COLLEGE OF MANAOAG
Brgy. Licsi, Manaoag, Pangasinan
ROSELYN A. BAGTULAY MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE
BEED IV
THE TITANS AND THE TWELVE GREAT OLYMPIANS
The Titans, often called the Elder Gods, were for untold ages supreme in the universe. They were of enonnous size and of incredible strength. There were many of them, but only a few appear in the stories of mythology. The most important was CRONUS, in Latin SATURN. He ruled over the other Titans until his son Zeus dethroned him and seized the power or himself. The Romans said that when Jupiter, their name for Zeus, ascended the throne, Saturn fled to Italy and brought in the Golden Age, a time of perfect peace and happiness, which lasted
As long as he reigned.
The other notable Titans were OCEAN, the river that was supposed to encircle the earth; his wife TETIlYs; HYPERION, the father of the sun, the moon and the dawn; MNEMOSYNE, which means Memory; THEMIS, usually translated by Justice;
And IApE'I1JS, important because of his sons, ATLAS, who bore the world on his shoulders, and PROMETIIEUS, who was the savior of mankind. These alone among the older gods were not banished with the coming of Zeus, but they took a lower place.
The twelve great Olympians were supreme among the gods who succeeded to the Titans. They were called the Olympians because Olympus was their home. What Olympus was, however, is not easy to say. There is no doubt that at first it was held to be a mountain top, and generally identified with Greece's highest mountain, Mt. Olympus in Thessaly, in the northeast of Greece. But even in the earliest Greek poem, the Iliad, this idea is beginning to give way to the idea of an Olympus in some
Mysterious region far above all the mountains of the earth. In one passage of the Iliad Zeus talks to the gods from "the top most peak of many-ridged Olympus," clearly a mountain. But only a little further on he says that
If he willed he could hang earth and sea
ST.CAMILLUS COLLEGE OF MANAOAG
Brgy. Licsi, Manaoag, Pangasinan
ROSELYN A. BAGTULAY MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE
BEED IV
THE TITANS AND THE TWELVE GREAT OLYMPIANS
The Titans, often called the Elder Gods, were for untold ages supreme in the universe. They were of enonnous size and of incredible strength. There were many of them, but only a few appear in the stories of mythology. The most important was CRONUS, in Latin SATURN. He ruled over the other Titans until his son Zeus dethroned him and seized the power or himself. The Romans said that when Jupiter, their name for Zeus, ascended the throne, Saturn fled to Italy and brought in the Golden Age, a time of perfect peace and happiness, which lasted
As long as he reigned.
The other notable Titans were OCEAN, the river that was supposed to encircle the earth; his wife TETIlYs; HYPERION, the father of the sun, the moon and the dawn; MNEMOSYNE, which means Memory; THEMIS, usually translated by Justice;
And IApE'I1JS, important because of his sons, ATLAS, who bore the world on his shoulders, and PROMETIIEUS, who was the savior of mankind. These alone among the older gods were not banished with the coming of Zeus, but they took a lower place.
The twelve great Olympians were supreme among the gods who succeeded to the Titans. They were called the Olympians because Olympus was their home. What Olympus was, however, is not easy to say. There is no doubt that at first it was held to be a mountain top, and generally identified with Greece's highest mountain, Mt. Olympus in Thessaly, in the northeast of Greece. But even in the earliest Greek poem, the Iliad, this idea is beginning to give way to the idea of an Olympus in some
Mysterious region far above all the mountains of the earth. In one passage of the Iliad Zeus talks to the gods from "the top most peak of many-ridged Olympus," clearly a mountain. But only a little further on he says that
If he willed he could hang earth and sea