Battle of Titans

Titans are ancestor relatives of Olympian Gods ( Poseidon,Zeus,Hades...)

First Generation of Titans:

• Cronus (Saturn)
• Rhea (Cronus and Rhea - parents of the Olympian gods and goddesses)
• Iapetus (father of Prometheus, Atlas,Epimetheus)
• Oceanus (father of nymphs)
• Hyperion (father of sun-god, moon, dawn)
• Themis
• Thea (Hyperion's mate)
• Mnemosyne
• Phoebe (Coeus' mate)
• Coeus (father of Leto & Asteria)
• Tethys (Ocean's mate)
• Crius (father of Pallas, Astraeus, and Perses)

Second Genration Titans:

• Atlas
• Prometheus
• Epimetheus
• Helius
• Perses
• Astraeus
• Pallas
• Leto
• Asteria
• Styx
• Metis

Battle of Titans often called Titanomachy was war beteween Titans and Olympian Gods that lasted 10 years.During this battle youngest God Zeus freed Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires from Tartarus where Cronos endungeond them.In return Cyclopes crafted for Zeus his Tunderbolts,for Hades his Helment and for Poseidon his trident.Mighty weapons that Cyclopes crafted were then used by Olympian Gods to defeat Titans.After the battle Titans were enprisoned in Tatarus (underworld).Atlas was doomed to carry sky on his back and Prometheus was on Olympic gods side so they let him remain with them.Three brothers divided the ruling,Zeus get to rule the heaven,Hades got to rule the Underworld and Poseidon was given Control over the seas.
Reference:Ancient History

Poseidon's Birth and Poseidon's Father Cronus

Painting by Peter Paul Rubens of Cronus devouring one of his children, Poseidon
Source:Wikipeadia

Coronus,Poseidon's father was jealous because his father Uranus had power to rule the universe.Uranus displeased Coronus mother Gaia,because he hid creatures she born in Tatarus.Gaia for revange crafted great stone sickle and gave it to bravest of her son's Coronus and placed him in ambush to attack Uranus.When Uranus and Gaia met,Coronus attacked his father Uranus castrating him and throwing his testicles into the sea.Testicals produced white foam from which Afrodita was born.The period Coronus ruled was called Golden Age.

Coronus learned form Gaia and Uranus about the prophecy which said that he will be removed from his thron like his father Uranus by his children.To stop the prophecy he devoured(eatean) all of his children after they were born,but Rhea(Coronus sister and mother of his childeren) gave birth to Zeus seceretly in Crete.Rhea tricked Coronus by giving him stone wrapperd in clothes that he swallowed instead of his son Zeus.When Zeus grew up,Gaia,his grandmother gave him poison which he used on his father Coronus.After Zeus poisoned Coronus,he disgorged his childeren,one of them was Poseidon.

Poseidon

This is blog dedicated to God of sea,storms and earthquakes,son of Cronus and brother of Zeus and Hades,Poseidon. Soúnio (Cape Sounion) is location of Poseidon's temple in South Africa.The etruscan's called him Nethuns and Romans called him Neptune as planet.Signs shows that Poseidon was worshiped around 2800. BC but he was described as Olympian God in later phase of Bronze Age.