Koios (mythology)

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Koios ( ancient Greek Κοῖος Koíos , German 'question, questioning' ) or Polos ( Πόλος Pólos ) is one of the titans of Greek mythology .

Just like the other titans, he was pushed into Tartaros after their defeat by the Olympian gods , where the hundred-armed men stand guard in front of its iron door.

myth

When his mother Gaia ordered them to emasculate Uranos , he and his brothers Hyperion , Kreios and Iapetos held their father. Kronos then emasculated him with a sickle. Since Koios kept his father in the north, he also became the titan of the north or the titan of the north pole.

relationship

Koios is the son of Uranus and Gaia . His wife was the titan Phoibe . His daughters were Leto and Asteria .

Pedigree of the Titans

 
 
 
chaos Gaia Uranus
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Family of gods of the titans
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Oceanus
 
 
Kreios
 
 
Hyperion
 
 
Theia
 
 
Themis
 
 
Phoibe
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Kronos
 
Koios
 
Iapetos
 
Rhea
 
Mnemosyne
 
Tethys
 
 


Others

Astrologically, Koios is associated with the planet Mercury .

swell

  1. Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 1, 3.
  2. Diodorus 5, 66 ff.
  3. Hesiod , Theogony 134. 404ff.
  4. Ovid , Metamorphoses 6, 185.
  5. Pausanias 4, 33, 6.

Individual evidence

  1. coeus: Greek Titan god of intellect and and the pole. Theoi Project, Aaron J. Atsma, New Zealand, accessed December 7, 2013 .
  2. Pantheon (Eng.)