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- 03:15, 31 March 2023 Apollo (hist | edit) [570 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Olympian god of prophecy and oracles, music, song and poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease, and the protection of the young. He was depicted as a handsome, beardless youth with long hair and attributes such as a wreath and branch of laurel, bow and quiver of arrows, raven, and lyre. ===Parents:=== Father: Zeus<br> Mother Leto ===Children:=== *Aristaios - (God of Shepherds, Cheese-making, Bee Keeping, Honey, Honey mead, olive growing and oil milling, Me...")
- 03:07, 31 March 2023 Aphrodite (hist | edit) [661 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "APHRODITE was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. She was depicted as a beautiful woman often accompanied by the winged godling Eros (Love). Her attributes included a dove, apple, scallop shell and mirror. In classical sculpture and fresco she was usually depicted nude. ===Parents:=== Father: Uranus <br> Mother: none. Aphrodite sprung from the sea foam when Uranus' genitals were thrown into the sea after being castrated by his sons. ===...")
- 18:33, 30 March 2023 Odin (hist | edit) [832 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "===Also known as=== *Allfather *Wodan He’s the ruler of the Aesir tribe of deities, yet he often ventures far from their kingdom, Asgard, on long, solitary wanderings throughout the cosmos on purely self-interested quests. He’s a relentless seeker after and giver of wisdom, but he has little regard for communal values such as justice, fairness, or respect for law and convention. He’s the divine patron of rulers, and also of outlaws. He’s a war-god, but also a p...")
- 18:16, 30 March 2023 Selene (hist | edit) [1,362 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "SELENE was the Titan goddess of the moon. She was depicted as a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds. Her lunar sphere or crescent was either a crown set upon her head or the fold of a raised, shining cloak. She was sometimes said to drive a team of oxen and her lunar crescent was likened to a pair of bull's horns. Selene's great love was the shepherd prince Endymion. The beautiful boy was granted eternal youth and imm...")
- 18:09, 30 March 2023 Leto (hist | edit) [1,251 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "LETO was a bride of Zeus, and the mother of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis. She was the goddess of motherhood and, with her children, a protectress of the young. Her name and iconography suggest she was also a goddess of modesty and womanly demure. Like her sister Asteria she may also have been a goddess of the night, or alternatively of the light of day. When Leto was pregnant with the twins she was pursued relentlessly by the goddess Hera, who dr...")
- 18:04, 30 March 2023 Helius (hist | edit) [2,448 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "HELIOS (Helius) was the Titan god of the sun, a guardian of oaths, and the god of sight. He dwelt in a golden palace in the River Okeanos (Oceanus) at the far ends of the earth from which he emerged each dawn, crowned with the aureole of the sun, driving a chariot drawn by four winged steeds. When he reached the the land of the Hesperides in the far West he descended into a golden cup which bore him through the northern streams of Okeanos back to his rising place in the...")
- 17:55, 30 March 2023 Hecate (hist | edit) [1,900 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "HEKATE (Hecate) was the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy. She was the only child of the Titans Perses and Asteria from whom she received her power over heaven, earth, and sea. Hekate assisted Demeter in her search for Persephone, guiding her through the night with flaming torches. After the mother-daughter reunion became she Persephone's minister and companion in Hades. Three metamorphosis myths describe the origins of her an...")
- 17:45, 30 March 2023 Eos (hist | edit) [1,222 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "EOS was the rosy-fingered goddess of the dawn. She and her siblings Helios (the Sun) and Selene (the Moon) were numbered amongst the second-generation Titan gods. Eos rose into the sky from the river Okeanos (Oceanus) at the start of each day, and with her rays of light dispersed the mists of night. She was depicted either driving a chariot drawn by winged horses or borne aloft on her own wings. Eos had an unquenchable desire for handsome young men, some say as...")
- 17:31, 30 March 2023 Asteria (hist | edit) [817 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "ASTERIA was the Titan goddess of falling stars and perhaps of nighttime divinations such as oneiromancy (by dreams) and astrology (by stars). She was the mother of Hekate (Hecate), goddess of witchcraft, by the Titan Perses. After the fall of the Titans, Zeus chased Asteria across the sky but she escaped him by transforming herself into a quail and leaping into the sea to became the island of Delos. Her sister Leto later gave birth to Apollo on the i...")
- 22:00, 29 March 2023 Mnemosyne (hist | edit) [772 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "MNEMOSYNE was the Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words. As a Titan daughter of Uranus (Heaven), Mnemosyne was also a goddess of time. She represented the rote memorization required to preserve the stories of history and the sagas of myth before the introduction of writing. In this role she was the mother of the Mousai (Muses) who were originally patron goddesses of poets of the oral tradition. Finally Mnemosyne was a minor or...")
- 21:57, 29 March 2023 Themis (hist | edit) [1,213 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "THEMIS was the Titan goddess of divine law and order--the traditional rules of conduct first established by the gods. She was also a prophetic goddess who presided over the most ancient oracles, including Delphi. In this role, she was the divine voice (themistes) who first instructed mankind in the primal laws of justice and morality, such as the precepts of piety, the rules of hospitality, good governance, conduct of assembly, and pious offerings to the gods. In Greek,...")
- 21:54, 29 March 2023 Thea (hist | edit) [506 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "THEA was the Titan goddess of sight (thea) and the shining ether of the bright, blue sky (aithre). She was also, by extension, the goddess who endowed gold and silver with their brilliance and intrinsic value. Thea bore the Titan Hyperion three shining children--Helios the Sun, Eos the Dawn, and Selene the Moon. Her name was derived from the Greek words thea "sight" and theiazô "prophesy". She was also named Aithre (Aethra) "Blue-Sky" and Euryphaessa "Wi...")
- 21:52, 29 March 2023 Tethys (hist | edit) [524 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "TETHYS was the Titan goddess of the primal font of fresh water which nourishes the earth. She was the wife of Oceanus, the earth-encircling, fresh-water stream, and the mother of the Potamoi (Rivers), the Okeanides (Oceanids) (nymphs of springs, streams and fountains), and the Nephelai (Clouds). Tethys, daughter of Gaea (Earth), fed her children's springs with the waters of Oceanos drawn through subterranean aquifers. Her name was derived from the Greek word têthê mean...")
- 21:48, 29 March 2023 Rhea (hist | edit) [1,058 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Rhea was the Titan mother of the gods, and goddess of female fertility, motherhood, and generation. Her name means "flow" and "ease." As the wife of Cronus (Time), she represented the eternal flow of time and generations; as the great Mother, the "flow" was menstrual blood, birth waters, and milk. She was also a goddess of comfort and ease, a blessing reflected in the common Homeric phrase "the gods who live at their ease (rhea)." In myth, Rhea was the wife of the Titan...")
- 21:45, 29 March 2023 Phoebe (hist | edit) [429 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Phoebe was the Titan goddess of the bright intellect. She was wife of the Titan Coeus "the Inquiring" and the grandmother of Apollo, Artemis and Hekate. Phoebe was the third goddess to hold the great oracle of Delphi which she in turn bestowed upon her grandson Apollo. Her name was derived from the Greek words phoibos "bright" or "radiant", phoibazô "to prophesy" and phoibaô "to purify". Category:Greek")
- 21:39, 29 March 2023 Menoetius (hist | edit) [416 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Menoetius was one of the younger Titans. He was perhaps the god rash action and violent rage. Zeus blasted him with a thunderbolt into Erebos (the Underworld) for his hubris. Menoitius' name was derived from the Greek words menos meaning "might", "force", "passion" and "batterage", and oitos meaning "ill-fated" or "doomed". Hesiod calls him hybristes--a violent, overbearing and insolent man. Category:Greek")
- 21:37, 29 March 2023 Epimetheus (hist | edit) [1,092 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "EPIMETHEUS was the Titan god of afterthought and excuses. He and his brother Prometheus were given the task of populating the earth with animals and men. However, Epimetheus quickly exhausted the supply of gifts allotted for the task in the equipment of animals, leaving Prometheus' masterpiece, mankind, completely helpless. As a result, the Titan brother was forced to steal fire from heaven to arm them. Zeus was angered by this theft and ordered the creation of Pando...")
- 21:35, 29 March 2023 Prometheus (hist | edit) [1,062 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "PROMETHEUS was the Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel who was given the task of moulding mankind out of clay. His attempts to better the lives of his creation brought him into conflict with Zeus. Firstly he tricked the gods out of the best portion of the sacrificial feast, acquiring the meat for the feasting of man. Then, when Zeus withheld fire, he stole it from heaven and delivered it to mortal kind hidden inside a fennel-stalk. As punishment for these reb...")
- 21:32, 29 March 2023 Crius (hist | edit) [1,024 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Crius was one of the elder Titans, sons of Uranus (Sky) and Gaea (Earth). Led by Cronus, the brothers conspired against their father and prepared an ambush as he descended to lie with Earth. Crius, Coeus, Hyperion and Iapetus were posted at the four corners of the world where they seized hold of the sky-god and held him firm, while Cronos, hidden in the centre, castrated him with a sickle. In this myth the four brothers probably represent the four cosmic pil...")
- 21:26, 29 March 2023 Coecus (hist | edit) [1,091 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Coeus was one of the elder Titans, sons of Uranus (Sky) and Gaea (Earth). He and his brothers conspired against their father, laying an ambush for him as he descended to lie with Earth. Four of the siblings were posted at the corners of the world, where they seized hold of him and held him fast, while Cronus castrated him with a sickle. In this myth the brothers apparently personified the great pillars which occur in near-Eastern cosmologies holding heaven and earth apa...")
- 21:22, 29 March 2023 Hyperion (hist | edit) [394 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "HYPERION was the Titan god of heavenly light, one of the sons of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth), and the father of the lights of heaven--Eos the Dawn, Helios the Sun, and Selene the Moon. His wife was Theia, lady of the aether--the shining blue of the sky. Hyperion's name means "watcher from above" or "he who goes above" from the greek words hyper and iôn.")
- 21:18, 29 March 2023 Iapetus (hist | edit) [1,365 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Iapetus was one of the elder Titans, sons of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth). Led by Cronus, Iapetus and his brothers ambushed their father as he descended to lie with Mother Earth. Crios, Coeus, Hyperion and Iapetus were posted at the four corners of the world where they seized hold of the Sky-God and held him fast, while Cronos castrated him with a sickle. The Titans were later deposed by Zeus and cast into the pit of Tartarus. According to Pindar and...")
- 21:13, 29 March 2023 Oceanus (titan) (hist | edit) [1,175 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Oceanus was the primordial Titan god of the great, earth-encircling River Okeanos, font of all of the earth's fresh-water - rivers, wells, springs and rain-clouds. He was also the god who regulated the heavenly bodies which rose from and set into his waters. Oceanus' wife Tethys "the Nurse" was probably envisioned distributing his nourishing waters across the earth through subterranean acquifers. Their children were the Potamoi, gods of rivers, and the Okeanides (Oce...")
- 21:10, 29 March 2023 Cronus (hist | edit) [847 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Cronus was the King of the Titans and the god of time, in particular time when viewed as a destructive, all-devouring force. He ruled the cosmos during the Golden Age after castrating and deposing his father Uranus. In fear of a prophecy that he would in turn be overthrown by his own son, Cronos swallowed each of his children as they were born. Rhea managed to save the youngest, Zeus, by hiding him away on the island of Crete, and fed Cronos a stone wrapped in swaddling...")
- 21:03, 29 March 2023 Seven Hermetic Principles (hist | edit) [2,112 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The 7 Hermetic Principles were made popular by a book titled ''The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece'' which was published in 1908. The author was listed only as "Three Initiates", and the contents of the book are supposed to be based on the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. ===Hermes Trismegistus=== His name can be translated as "Hermes the Thrice-Greatest". While his identity is still up for debate, many believe he is a combinati...")
- 01:08, 29 March 2023 Atlas (hist | edit) [1,443 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Atlas was the Titan god who bore the sky aloft. He personified the quality of endurance. Atlas was a leader of the Titans in their war against Zeus and after their defeat he was condemned to carry the heavens upon his shoulders. According to others he was instead (or later) appointed guardian of the pillars which held the earth and sky asunder. Atlas was also the god who instructed mankind in the art of '''astronomy''', a tool which was used by sailors in navigation and...")
- 00:52, 29 March 2023 Tartarus (hist | edit) [408 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tartarus was the primordial god of the stormy pit of Tartarus that lies beneath the foundations of the earth. He was the body of the pit itself rather than an athropomorphic deity. Tartaros was envisaged as the opposite of the sky, an inverted-dome lying beneath the flat earth. Together the Uranian-dome and Tartarean-pit enclosed the entire cosmos in an egg-shaped or spherical shell. Category:Greek")
- 00:49, 29 March 2023 Nyx (hist | edit) [737 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Nyx was the goddess of the night, one of the primordial gods who emerged as the dawn of creation. She was a child of Chaos (Air), and coupling with Erebos (Darkness) she produced Aether (Light) and Hemera (Day). Alone she spawned a brood of dark spirits including the three Fates, Sleep, Death, Strife and Pain. Nyx was an ancient deity usually envisaged as the very substance of the night--a veil of dark mists drawn across the sky to obscure the light of Aeth...")
- 00:46, 29 March 2023 Hemera (hist | edit) [888 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Hemera was the the primordial goddess of the day. She was a daughter of Erebos (Darkness) and Nyx (Night) and the sister and wife of Aether (Heavenly Light). Every evening Hemera's mother Nyx drew her dark veil across the sky, obscuring the the shining blue of the heavenly ether (aether), and bringing night to earth. With each morn Hemera dispersed her mother's mists, bathing the earth again in the light of the ether. In the ancient cosmogonies night and day were actual...")
- 00:43, 29 March 2023 Ourea (hist | edit) [243 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Ourea were the primordial gods of the mountains. Each mountain was believed to have its own ancient deity. Mountains were depicted in classical art as old, bearded men partially emerged from between a pair of crags. Category:Greek")
- 00:42, 29 March 2023 Oceanus (protogenoi) (hist | edit) [1,183 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "OKEANOS (Oceanus) was the primordial Titan god of the great, earth-encircling River Okeanos, font of all of the earth's fresh-water - rivers, wells, springs and rain-clouds. He was also the god who regulated the heavenly bodies which rose from and set into his waters. Okeanos' wife Tethys "the Nurse" was probably envisioned distributing his nourishing waters across the earth through subterranean acquifers. Their children were the Potamoi, gods of rivers, and the Okeanide...")
- 00:36, 29 March 2023 Uranus (god) (hist | edit) [1,156 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Uranus was the primordial god (protogenos) of the sky. The Greeks imagined the sky as a solid dome of brass, decorated with stars, whose edges descended to rest upon the outermost limits of the flat earth. Uranus was the literal sky, just as his consort Gaea was the earth. Uranus and Gaea had twelve sons and six daughters. He locked the eldest of these--the giant Cyclopes and Hecatonchires--away inside the belly of Earth. Gaia suffered immense pain and persuaded...")
- 00:30, 29 March 2023 Chaos (hist | edit) [1,169 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Chaos was the first of the primordial gods (protogenoi) to emerge at the dawn of creation. She was followed in quick succession by Gaea (Earth), Tartaros (the Pit Below) and Eros (Procreation). Chaos was the lower atmosphere which surrounds the earth--both the invisible air and the gloom of fog and mist. The word khaos means "gap" or "chasm" being the space between heaven and earth. Chaos was the mother and grandmother of the other misty essences- *Erebos (the mists of...")
- 00:27, 29 March 2023 Eros (hist | edit) [186 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Eros was the primordial god of procreation who emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation. He was the driving force behind the generation of new life in the cosmos. Category:Greek")
- 00:24, 29 March 2023 Chronos (hist | edit) [728 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Chronos was the primordial god of time. He emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation. Chronos was envisaged as an incorporeal god, serpentine in form, with three heads--that of a man, a bull, and a lion. He and his consort, the serpentine goddess Ananke (Inevitability), enveloped the primordial world-egg in their coils and split it apart to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky. After this act of creation the couple circled the cosmos driving the rotation of...")
- 00:17, 29 March 2023 Erinyes (hist | edit) [1,591 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Erinyes (Furies) were three goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for crimes against the natural order. They were particularly concerned with homicide, unfilial conduct, offenses against the gods, and perjury. A victim seeking justice could call down the curse of the Erinyes upon the criminal. The most powerful of these was the curse of the parent upon the child--for the Erinyes were born of just such a crime, being sprung from the blood of Uranus...")
- 23:58, 28 March 2023 Hecatonchires (hist | edit) [973 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Name means "The Hundred-handed Ones". They were three sons of Gaea and Uranus (god. Each had one hundred hands for wielding clouds and fifty heads for blowing winds. Three of their brothers, the Cyclopes were masters of thunder and lightning. Fearing their power, Uranus locked the six of them away in Tartarus. They were rescued by Zeus during his war against the Titans and helped him send the elder gods into the abyss, and then were appointed as the...")
- 23:26, 28 March 2023 Gaea (hist | edit) [820 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Gaea is the personification of the Earth itself. She is the Great Mother of All Creation, giving birth to Uranus (god) (the sky), Ourea (the mountains), and Pontus (the sea) via asexual reproduction. She and Uranus then became lovers, and she bore the Titan gods, as well as the Cyclopes (giant creatures with one eye), the Hecatonchires (literally the 'hundred-handed ones', creatures with 100 arms and 50 heads), the Meliae (tree nymphs), the Erinye...")
- 19:11, 27 March 2023 Pryderi (hist | edit) [203 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "300px|thumb|right <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-street-view}} His Domain</h2> <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-comment}} His Myth</h2> ==Cognates from other pantheons== Category:Welsh")
- 19:09, 27 March 2023 Llyr (hist | edit) [200 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "300px|thumb|right <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-street-view}} His Domain</h2> <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-comment}} His Myth</h2> ==Cognates from other pantheons== Category:Welsh")
- 19:07, 27 March 2023 Math ap Mathonwy (hist | edit) [200 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "300px|thumb|left <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-street-view}} His Domain</h2> <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-comment}} His Myth</h2> ==Cognates from other pantheons== Category:Welsh")
- 14:24, 26 March 2023 Taliesin (hist | edit) [197 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|300px <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-street-view}} His Domain</h2> <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-comment}} His Myth</h2> ==Cognates from other pantheons== Category:Welsh")
- 14:23, 26 March 2023 Pwyll (hist | edit) [5,412 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|300px <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-street-view}} His Domain</h2> <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-comment}} His Myth</h2> ==Cognates from other pantheons== Category:Welsh")
- 14:22, 26 March 2023 Arawn (hist | edit) [194 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|300px <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-street-view}} His Domain</h2> <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-comment}} His Myth</h2> ==Cognates from other pantheons== Category:Welsh")
- 14:22, 26 March 2023 Rhiannon (hist | edit) [197 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|300px <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-street-view}} Her Domain</h2> <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-comment}} Her Myth</h2> ==Cognates from other pantheons== Category:Welsh")
- 14:21, 26 March 2023 Bendegeid Bran (hist | edit) [3,204 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|300px <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-street-view}} His Domain</h2> <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-comment}} His Myth</h2> ==Cognates from other pantheons== Category:Welsh")
- 14:20, 26 March 2023 Blodeuwedd (hist | edit) [199 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|300px <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-street-view}} Her Domain</h2> <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-comment}} Her Myth</h2> ==Cognates from other pantheons== Category:Welsh")
- 14:20, 26 March 2023 Llew Llaw Gyffes (hist | edit) [193 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|300px <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-street-view}} His Domain</h2> <h2>{{#fas:fa-thin fa-comment}} His Myth</h2> ==Cognates from other pantheons== Category:Welsh")
- 00:55, 26 March 2023 Manawyddan (hist | edit) [227 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|300px ==His Myth== ==His Domain== Category:Welsh")
- 00:54, 26 March 2023 Gwydion (hist | edit) [90 bytes] Teganlleuad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|300px ==His Myth== ==His Domain== Category:Welsh")
