The Titans              click on the flower to visit the special site !
 
 

             The "Original" Titans:
             Oceanus
             Coeus
             Hyperion
             Crius
             Iapetus
             Cronus
             Theia
             Rhea
             Mnemosyne
             Phoebe
             Tethys
             Themis

              Some Titan Descendants (2nd and 3rd generation):

              Prometheus
              Epimetheus
              Atlas
              Leto
              Menoetius
              Dione
              Asteria
              Maia
              Electra
              Taygete
              Metis
              Tyche
              Helios
              Selene
              Eos
              Hesperus

 
 
 

Echo and Narcissus
Echo was in the wrong place at the wrong time, talking to Hera long  enough for Zeus to fool around again. Hera, who thought it was a put-up job, was so angry she deprived Echo of the power of speech except for the ability to repeat the last words of another. Echo fell in love with Narcissus who was pining away staring at his reflection. Echo, in despair and his indifference to her, faded away to nothing until only her voice remained.

Narcissus was an exceptionally handsome youth. A prophecy was foretold that he would live a long life if he did not look upon his own features. He chanced to see his reflection in the waters of a spring, fell in love with that reflection and pined away till he died by the side of the spring. The narcissus flower supposedly grew at that spot.
 

Europa
The Cretan moon goddess who was adopted into Greek myth as a virgin Phoenician princess abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull, raped by him, and subsequently abandoned. She later married Asterias, king of Crete. She was the mother of Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthus, three famous kings. The continent of Europe is named after her.
 
 

Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus. Europa was gathering wildflowers in a seaside meadow when she came upon a beautiful white bull. This bull was uncommonly gentle and did not inspire fear. Decking its horns with flowers, Europa was at length emboldened to climb upon its back. Whereupon the bull - actually the god Zeus in disguise - took off at a trot and dove into the sea. Europa was carried off to the island of Crete, where she became the mother of King Minos.

Europa's brother Cadmus was charged with the duty of finding his sister and securing her return. He consulted the Oracle of Delphi, however, and was told to abandon the search. Instead he was to venture forth until he should meet a cow, to follow this cow wherever it should lead and to found a city upon the spot where it lay down. Such is the foundation legend of the Greek city of Thebes, which goes on to relate how Cadmus and his companions went out to fetch water for their new settlement at a
nearby fountain.

Here all but Cadmus were slain by a dragon. Cadmus killed the dragon and, at the prompting of the goddess Athena, sowed some of its teeth in the ground. Armed men sprang up from the earth, just as they later would for Jason under similar circumstances - for the teeth that Jason strew upon the fertile soil of distant Colchis came from the very dragon that Cadmus
had killed. Using the same trick that would eventually serve Jason, Cadmus caused the sown men to fight amongst themselves until only five were left standing. These five, together with Cadmus, became the original inhabitants of Thebes. Cadmus, their king, is said to have taught them the alphabet and the art of writing. Indeed, the Greek alphabet historically derives from the land of the Phoenicians, mythological home of Cadmus and his sister (modern Syria and Lebanon).
 

NYX
Nyx was a daughter of Chaos, and with her brother Erebus (Darkness) she bore: Air, Hemera (Day), Aether (Light), Moros (Destiny), Thanatos (Death), Hypnos (Sleep), Morpheus (Dreams), The Fates, The Keres, Eris, Momus (Ridicule), Oizys (Distress), Apate (Deceit) Care, and Nemesis. Her realm was in the far West beyond the land of Atlas.
 
 
 

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