Theia
Theia is a Titan and the mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Titan goddess attested in Hesiod's Theogony as mother of celestial deities.
Relationships
- manifests as
- Aethra
- consort of
- Hyperion
- co occurs with
- Nyx, Ourea, Hemera, Kratos, Old Gods, Dahak, Iapetus, Gaea, Smyrna, Hecate, Luna, Leto, Phaethon, Cronus, Pallas, Uranus, Pontus, Artemis (Diana), Zeus, Hades, Ares, Kraken, Kronos, Atlas, Tartarus, Ištar, Aphrodite, Persephone, Tammuz
- sibling of
- Hyperion, Rhea, Tethys, Cronos, Phoebe, Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Iapetus, Themis
- aspect of
- Titans
- enemy of
- Olympians
- has aspect
- Euryphaessa
- manifested by
- Basileia
Mentioned by
- Hecate
- Luna
- Leto
- Phaethon
- Cronus
- Pallas
- Uranus
- Pontus
- Artemis (Diana)
- Zeus
- Hades
- Ares
- Kraken
- Kronos
- Atlas
- Tartarus
and 8 more
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Helios figures prominently in several works of Greek mythology, poetry, and literature, in which he is often described as the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia and brother of the goddesses Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the Dawn).”
#16690 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Hyperion subjected his sister Theia to his love, and fathered three children with her, who became the lights of heaven: Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon), and Eos (Dawn).”
#16731 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“According to Greek cosmogony, Eos is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia: Hyperion, a bringer of light, the One Above, Who Travels High Above the Earth and Theia, The Divine, also called Euryphaessa, "wide-shining" and Aethra, "bright sky".”
#18170 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Theia's mythological role as the mother of the Moon goddess Selene is alluded to in the application of the name to a hypothetical planet that, according to the giant impact hypothesis, collided with the Earth and created the Moon.”
#19061 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“She lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis, and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.”
#28379 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001