The titans are the sons and daughters of
Gaia and Ouranos and were the first rulers of the earth; their leader, Kronos, was
the ruler of the entire universe after they castrated their father who kept
them imprisoned deep within the underEarth.
The Titans were the parents of the eldest of the gods including Zeus and the first generation of Olympians.
The origin of the titans is not know, they
may be related to other Indo-European cultures’ primordial beings (such as the
Norse Jotuns) or they could be the remnants of a pantheon worshiped by peoples
indigenous to Greece (such as the Pelgasians) before the coming of the
Mykeneans. New evidence in early Kreaten
writing by an archaeologist named Paul Faure
suggests that there was a deity named Ttan, perhaps he was the original ruler
of the group which took his name collectively.
Another theory traces the name to the word for ‘white earth’, referring to
clay or gypsum. In this context it could
refer to statues sculpted of the material or even the use of clay as a make up
in early ritual.
The protogenoi, including the parents of
the titans, are the actual beings the universe is created from. The titans are the powers of time and
fertility, the stages of chaotic growth that the younger gods tamed and brought
order to.
