Brief overview of the Divine Family Tree

Gaia

Oceanus

Cyclopes

Alias:

• Earth

Offspring of Gaia and Uranus

Son of Gaia and Uranus (and brother of Uranus but we'll ignore that)

Forged Zeus' thunderbolt, Poseidon's trident and Hades' helm of invisibility

Titan god of the river Oceanus (the font of all Earth's fresh water)

Sided with the gods to against Kronos

He regulated the rising and setting of heavenly bodies

Mother of:

• Uranus
• The long mountains
• The Nymphs
• The undraining Sea
• Oceanus
• Koios
• Kreios
• Hyperion
• Iapetos
• Thea
• Rhea
• Themis
• Memory
• Phoebe of gold diadem
• Lovely Thethys
• Kronos (Cronus)
• Cyclopes
• The Hundred-handers
• Probably many more but I've run out of room

Hyperion

Uranus

Titan god of light

Son of Gaia and Uranus

Alias:

• Starry Heaven
• Ouranus

Artemis

Very respected

goddess

Fathered the 'lights of heaven' - Eos the Dawn, Helios the Sun, and Selene the Moon

Rhea

Kronos

Son of Gaia (Earth)

Also the father of Gaia's many children

Bit of a prick, really

Goddess of:

• the Hunt
• Forests and hills
• The Moon
• Archery
• wilderness
• childbirth
• virginity
• wild animals

Alias:

• Cronus
• Cronos

Hobbies:

• loathing his lusty father
• being a crooked schemer

One of the four Titan brothers who conspired with Kronos against Uranus

Youngest child

Mother of the first generation Olympians, birthed from her holy womb:

• Hestia
• Demeter
• Hera
• Hades
• Poseidon
• Zeus

Hestia

Twin sister of Apollo (she's older though - don't tell Apollo)

Favourite toys:

• his sharp-toothed sickle

Apollo

Wasn't a much better father than Uranus since he ate his children.

Here's a pic that Rhea snapped with her iPhone --->

Daughter of Rhea and Kronos

Goddess of:

• the hearth
• home
• architecture
• domesticity
• family
• the state

Zeus (aka favourite child)

Bit of a show off

Hid Zeus from Kronos after he swallowed all the previous children :/

Very handsome

Hera

Annoyingly good at everything

Queen of the Gods

One of the three virgin Olympians

Poseidon

God of:

• the Sun
• music
• poetry
• archery
• prophecy
• the truth
• oracles
• plague
• medicine
• and many more!

• Youngest child
• Resourceful
• Favourite toy is his thunderbolt
• Bit of a ladies man (Hera would argue - correctly - that he's a lot of a ladies man)

Married to Zeus (also her brother :/)

Alias:

• The booming Shaker of Earth

Demeter

Goddess of Marriage and Birth

Hades

Known to be very vengeful to lovers of her husband Zeus

God of:

• the sea
• earthquakes
• storms
• horses

Lord of the Underworld

(not really the type of guy Demeter had in mind for her daughter)

Goddess of:

• agriculture
• fertility
• sacred law
• the harvest

Her sacred animal is the peacock

Hermes

Son of Zeus and Maia

He's that uncle that always in a bad mood

Got extremely bummed out when her daughter.....

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Hephaestus

God of:

• trade
• thieves
• travellers
• sports
• athletes
• boundaries and transitions

Dionysus

Persephone

Heph is endowed with skills beyond all the Celestials

Son of Zeus and Semele

.....was stolen by.....

Ares

God of:

• fire
• metalworking
• stone masonry
• forges
• art of sculpture

Aphrodite's lover

He was a psychopomp; he guided souls to the Underworld

God of:

• wine
• grape harvest
• wine making
• ritual madness
• religious esctasy
• theatre

God of:

• war
• bloodlust
• violence

Husband of Aphrodite

Last god to enter Olympus

Daughter of Zeus and Demeter

Son of Zeus and Hera (a legitimate child!!!) Neither of them like him though :/

Son of Hera (powered by her anger at Zeus for cheating)

Not a very popular god among other gods

Aphrodite

Had many lovers, most notably Ares

Goddess of:

• love
• lust
• beauty
• eternal youth
• procreation
• pleasure

Brief Overview of the Divine Family Tree

The End

Born of the castrated genitals of Uranus that fell into the sea

By: The Storyteller